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12 & 23 Thanks!!

Last year I did the Name a Gnome cointest, and we sent Gnummy off on his travels.. Name a Gnome TB2PXJN Well this year its his brothers turn.. And just like Gnummy once did....He has a problem... He has no name, and even worse he has no where to go. He is getting ready to go traveling but cannot decide on a mission. So here's the cointest.. 1. Name the Gnome (This will be the name I use on the coins page) 2. Give the Gnome a mission (This will be the mission I use on the coins page) Simply saying send him to Utah or something like that wont get it done. Im looking for a full mission statement that I can pretty much copy & paste right onto the coin page. Be as creative or simple as you like with both the name & the mission. This cointest will run for 1 week, and will end on March 21st, at no specific time.. Good Luck!! Winner will be picked by me, and recieve a trackable coin of my choice. Enter as many times as you like, but each entry must be a new name & new mission.

Congrats on making a great looking coin, and generous of you to make it a mystery coin.. The 2-tone looks really good, and I have the feeling the front is even more impressive...

I was reading through the old pages of this post & saw there was some debate on possibly replacing the mission #2 (Helga?) that got lost?? .. And as im noticing that Mission #1 seems to have stalled, I started looking around the net, it seems that the 2008 & 2009 versions of the coin are in stock according to the website.. I dont know if its an option, maybe as a group would could all contribute and purchase a new witch for the mission? Walpugris 2008

Im no artist, but I do use Gimp for a lot of things, and it works great, and its free...

This is a good idea that I have a coin for.. Unfortunately this coin never made it more than 10 miles, and I never actually even got to see the coin in person.. Hopefully you can revive it, but I ask that you can keep the reason for its travels intact, since its a Look Twice Coin... Reviving this coin & getting it going again will help to Promote Motorcycle Awareness!! TB2X8T3 - Todie's Wild Ride: Fallen Riders

Thanks to everyone who emailed me, I was able to get the coins I need...

I get the feeling that my post was taken in a negative light.. If that is the case, that is not what was intended.. If any coin designer or seller took it as a "cheap shot" at them it really wasnt... I would have no problem speaking my opinion if it was, trust me... I felt that I wanted to speak my opinion about how I felt & things that I noticed.. Thats it. Maybe this wasnt the proper forum thread to do it, and maybe i got off track a bit... As for what I said, I meant it & still do.. Hey thats just my opinion. Im sure there are alot of people who feel totally different. Tsun & Avroair, I used your coins as examples, well because they are coins that I really like and look for to collect. To be honest, most all of Avroairs designs are "my style" of coin.. Do I personally like that there are so many Musketeer versions.. no, but in no way am I telling someone what to do. And in no way am I saying something is right or wrong.. The Neptunes Compass is an amazing coin, when they came out I wanted the version that I liked the look of the best, not wich version had less minting numbers.. Do I personally think there is a need for more versions than the original 2, no.. but thats just my opinion on it.. As for what I had mentioned about the AE Musketeer I had traded 2 coins for.. I just wanted to clear up what I meant by it.. I dont run around targeting a coin because of minting numbers.. But it is a coin that really like alot, and when I was presented with the oportunity to own an AE version of it, I thought wow, even better.. It was just that after I realized there were "x" amount of other AE versions, it kind of deflated it for me.. I wasnt angry or mad, nor did I feel the designer did any wrong by me.. It was what it was.. In the end, I thought that coin designers/venders would want to hear the opinions and feedback of the buyers.. I would not be mad or angry if there were 20 versions of every coin.. But it could effect what I buy. Speaking for myself, I also think it could effect my trading.. Maybe I love a coin, a coin that came out a year or 2 ago for example... And Im about to trade a coin that I really like in my collection for it.. Then 3 new metal/versions of the coin im about to trade for come out.. If I really like the new metal versions, I may be inclined to keep my coin & not lose it, and just purchase 1 of the new versions that just came out in a metal that I like... Hey im only speaking for myself....Be it just 1 opinion, I thought I would express it.

As someone who considers themself very new to geocoins, I'd like to add my opinion. I got my first geocoin about a year ago, and got hooked. I started slowly with my 1st coin purchase being an AS Templar coin, wich I loved the moment I saw it.. I then began surfing ebay & the coin forum here learning as much as I could.. I realized quickly that Ebay was not the way I would be purchasing much coins since as a newbie I saw some prices skyrocket... Ive only purchased 1 coin from Ebay since ive started... I slowly started building a collection through the forum sales & when new coins that I liked were sold.. I went through what was amazing to me at the time - the madness of a Tsun sale... Both the Neptunes Compass & Earth Turtle's back to back... I heard all the posts about how fast they will sell out & so on and laughed, thinking its impossible... Well I was shocked when all the coins were sold out in less than a minute... I was amazed... I then moved to making alot of trades, since I finally had some decent coins, and found trading with people a great experience... Some really nice traders out there, and I was able to get 2 of my most wanted coins through trades. (Dark side of the Cache & Absolut Geocoin) In July I started doing home renovations & didnt have the time or money to spend on geocoins or the forums... I just got back on the forums this past week, and started looking at geocoins again.. I noticed a few things had chanced right away.. 1. I looked on Ebay & coins that I had seen getting bid up right away, were just sitting out there with 0 or 1 bids.. I was very surprised that the overall prices of coins I had looked at on Ebay seems considerably lower.. 2. In my opinion, there are just too many metals/versions of coins, wich I think effects people views on buying.. It did for me at least.. I remember the last 2 coins that I purchased before I stopped in July.. It was 2 Medusa geocoins that I bought from Geoswag, they were the SE ones that were done for Geowoodstock (Magma & Tempest i believe). Anyway as I got back on recently, I noticed there are now even more versions of the coin and I was kinda dissapointed that there are just so many versions.. I also read a post today in the "wants" section.. Looking for Earth Turtle Oceania Tsun version and some othere version... I remember when I purchased them last year it was only the NEw Zealand and Oceania.. I was kind of surprised to see there are more versions already, and more versions of the Neptunes.. Im not saying that there is anything wrong with all the metals and versions, but for me at least, it seems a bit excessive to have more than 3 or 4 versions of a paricular coin... Another coin I love is the 4 Musketeers, I remember when I first started getting into them, I traded 2 coins to someone for 1 Musketeer AE or SE not even sure what u call them now, it was an Antique Gold & Blue... I love the coin, and I was willing to give up 2 coins to have what I considered a special version of it (at the time i thought most Musketeers where copper, so this was special).. I was also able to purchase a coin & also trade with Avroair (who was very reasonable with price & trade) for a Marine Musketeer and a Medusa BN & Gold... I remember seeing the BN & Gold going for 25-30 bucks on ebay & saying thats way too much for me. I messaged Avroair and he sold me 1 for a very reasonable price.. But as I look now there are so many versions of each coin its crazy to me.. I see there are like so many different versions of the Musketeer wich are listed as AE.. Well Im new to this like I said, but it doesnt make sense to me that there are alot of different versions that are AE.. (Maybe im wrong, but I thought an AE was 1 limited metal of a coin). If there were maybe 5 versions of the Musketeer overall, I would make a point to collect all 5, so I could have a complete set.. But with so many versions out there, the 3 that I have is all I will have... IF that makes sense.. 3.Money, of course money is always a factor... Ive been back for about a week now, and already purchased 2 Travel Gnomes from geoswag.. Cost me $20... After the purchase a second guessed myself, saying do I really want to spend $20 on coins that Im going to release... Ive decided I am going to have to be more crafty in my selection of purchasing coins.. I was looking at the King Tut coin, wich I love alot.... But decided I cant just keep piling up the prices on coins... $20 on Gnomes, another $20 on King Tuts.. and so on.. I saw on Ebay a Musketeer Marine Assassin... I'd love to buy it, but as I said, how can I justify the money on another version of a coin that I have multi versions of, when there are other coins I have no versions of that I could purchase.. Sorry for the hella long post, but these are just things that I had been thinking about since I started back up, and when I saw this post I felt it was a way for me to vent/express myself..

I dont know if this is still ongoing, but I would be happy to participate and drop a coin in New York if that hasnt been dont yet...

2,12,16,23,42 (Feels like a 4 of a kind) Favorite game : Texas Hold'Em & Spades Thanks...

Ok, I seem to be having a problem with how the msg board post are layed out all of a sudden. When I open up a post usually each post will be on the page to read numbered from 1 to 50 or whatever... But all of a sudden today, when I open up a post, it shows the 1st post, but then it has a section below the 1st post that says "posts in this topic" and lists all the posts, but you have to click on each individual post link to read it... This makes no sense to me.. I went to board options and couldnt find anything to fix it. Please help, thanks.. Nevermind, figured it out..

Very nice looking. I like the green one the best! Are the coins the same on both sides?

Just took a look at the mission's travels on google earth... Wow, thats some journey so far...

Looking for a few Road to Sacramento/Hippie Bus's, regular or micro, either color, and year doesnt matter either.. Want to get at least 3 to use for PGR 5.. Will buy or possibly trade.. Email me if you have, thanks.... Im also looking to trade for a Travel Gnome to possibly do another Gnome cointest with..

Ill be in again this year...

Hey, just wanted to check in on any missions that im still involved in. I havent been active much lately on the boards, been pretty busy with other stuff, just wanted to say that i am still participating in the mission and am awaiting the arrival of Sabrina.. Thanks

Hey, just wanted to check in on any missions that im still involved in. I havent been active much lately on the boards, been pretty busy with other stuff, just wanted to say that i am still participating in the mission and am awaiting the arrival.. Thanks

Have these gone on sale yet? Have I missed them?

One guy had my bus for a month and a half, I emailed him & he said he had taken my coin all the way to Spain, but couldnt find the cache he wanted to place it in so he brought it back... lol

So how many people has mission 1 visited so far?

Micro GPS Coin.

Who said Jeep's are slow? You didn't know I had a Hemi under the hood of all those Jeeps! Well my buses run on love...

Congrats Nefesh, I know that stonehenge coin was high on your list... Its a great looking coin

Congrats & hope all works out for you.. (ps- its such a great coin!!)