OshnDoc

I have been getting a lot of fake logs from people who mine the internet for links to trackables. Even to some coins which have never been logged anywhere else and are in my possession. It works the same for some cahces supposedly being found. One guy had 3000 plus fins within 3 months plus an additional 3500 trackables he had logged. Just delete the log and hope that that person is not circulating your tracking number on a website for others doing the same thing. People like that are spoiling the fun of geocaching.

I have one sitting in a box or binder somewhere. Will look for it . Sent you an email.

Thanks for bringing this up to our attention. I have a few of his coins and a couple were made just for me.I enjoyed my special trades with him. I left a comment on the site. Hope it stays up and keeps him and his art in our memories.

Kealia: That is one beautiful thinned out collection. Where did you get that great display case? This looks very very nice! Hope you share the other case(s) as well.

Not wanting to take over your thread, just officially lurking

I have been thinking about this same topic for a while now. Would love to hear some good ideas for liquidating a few hundred un-activated coins. Will be watching this topic to hopefully get some ideas.

I just had a personal record broken, the longest time between logs of one of my geocoins. One of my coins "#9 RASCAL" http://coord.info/TB1WY8Y originally released as part of a Girl Scout event we had in 2007, showed up after being MIA for almost 4 years.

Well, in general if it looks like something special and not a bottle cap, trade something special or trade up. So if you find a geocoin in a cache, assume that it is special, and if you decide to take it, leave something special. In general these coins cost in today's world around $8-10 to make per each. If you decide to take the non-trackable geocoin leave something of equal value in the cache. If the coin has a tracking number on it, you can check on modern smart phones if it is activated or not. If it is not activated it was left as swag of some $10 value, if activated it is NOT swag. I don't see too many protocols, just simple caching rules and I guess pretty much normal behavior in this. One rule rules them all: Trade even or Trade up.

I guess I simply had assumed that leaving something equal in trade, other then moving a travel bug, is, or I guess now was, normal behavior. One of my old personal coins would have ended up as a trade item in that cache. I have left a quite a few of my coins in the wild and have been contacted afterwards by a few finders about them, but never knew whether something actually was exchanged for them. Several I left were most likely taken without a word. I personally don't exchange swag in most cases, it is more fun finding the caches, and in a lot of times the swag items left in the cache consist of nearby rocks or other trash. A lot of the newer caches in our area are small containers with sometimes just a ripped piece of notepad paper as a log, not even the instructions any longer. The containers are flimsy and in a lot of cases not even water proof, so the logs are drenched after a couple of months. It seems that the general approach to caching has changed over the last years making it a more quantity over quality approach to caching. I prefer quality, not only in cache placements, containers but also locations, and for my kids some large containers with proper swag in them as a "reward" for finding them to trade some of their items they had selected as trades for caches that actually had enough space in them to put something in in exchange. I admit I have done my share of fast park and grab caches but that is all that can be done sometimes with small children, however, it is those caches that have some originality in container selection, hiding spot and location that make this sport still worth playing and will be remembered. Those caches near dumpsters behind local fast food places are not in my eyes, they are rather revolting. Sorry for hijacking your thread. I guess I am getting old and am just assuming that the old written and unwritten rules of this sport still are being followed for the love of this game..

I would have left some nice words for your coin especially finding it in the wild. I found one of your caches a long time back but nothing like your coin in there "just a TB" maybe. Sounds like you had a great trip though.

Send an email to the folks at Groundspeak and tell them what happened. They might / should be able to help with this problem.

email sent

I might have a full set of these available as well. Shoot me an email if anyone is interested.

Not sure. To which email did you send it? To make sure, please send it again to oshndoc@gmail.com Thanks

UPDATE (round 3): Thanks everyone who purchased one or another of these. 5 ea Time and Space Blue AS($15 ea) 4 ea Time and Space Blue AG ($10 ea) 2 ea New Zealand GPS Society Canterbury Earthquake Cathedral AS ($20 ea) 1 ea Texas Blue Bonnet (by Chris Rake) ($25 ea) 1 ea 2007 Dragon Fly AS multicolored LE ($25ea) 2 ea 2007 Compass Rose -Satin gold ($20 ea) 1 ea 2007 Compass Rose - Antique bronze ($20 ea) 1 ea 2008 Compass Rose -Antique silver ($20 ea) 1 ea Pororoca Two-Tone LE ($20 ea) 1 ea Pocket Decoder AB ($25) All coins below are $10 each (ea) plus the above mentioned shipping costs toUS and international. 1 ea Team OleOmi Black Nickel 1 ea New Zealand Kiwi Polished Gold 1 ea Dr. Neal Polished Gold 1 ea Corps of Discovery AS 1 ea 2007 Cape Spear Lighthouse Polished Nickel 1 ea Beach Ball Polished Gold 1 ea Atwell Family AG 1 ea 366 Leapyear AS 1 ea Mt Rushmore BM AS 1 ea Lunenburg County Cachers Polished Gold 1 ea Buttermilk BM satin Silver 1 ea Buttermilk BM antique Copper 1 ea Bilby Tower BM AG 1 ea Corps of Discovery II BM 1 ea MGA-AGM polished Copper 1 ea Laval K-9 -Around Clock Caching BN 1 ea Geocaching Club March 2006 1 ea Alabama Open Invitational Event Polished Gold 1 ea Team Sand Dollar 2006 BN 1 ea MiGo 2007 Summer 1 ea Cache Counter Black Nickel (the one with the small star inside the cointhat indicated the number of caches found) 1 ea Geocaching Germany Satin Gold (this is one of the first German themedcoins) 1 ea Starkville Mafia Polished Nickel 1 ea Black Canyon Beach Luau Event BN 1 ea Geocoin Fest2007 Multievent Oregon PG 1 ea Geocoin Fest 2007 Multievent Quebec PG 1 ea Geocoin Fest 2007 Multievent Aoteora PG 1 ea Caching on the Moon AC 1 ea Florida Geocaching Association 2007 (not the gator) Polished Nickel 1 ea American Radio Relay League AB 1 ea What was in your mailbox today? polished Nickel 1 ea Bikedog ploished Copper 1 ea Geocoinclub April 2006 1 ea Cleaning the World - One Cache at the Time AC 1 ea California Poppy PG (micro) 1 ea Idaho 2007AS (micro) 1 ea Nacaya polished Gold (the one with the Sail Plane on one side) Thanks and Happy caching

UPDATE: 4 2 ea Time and Space AE/LE Red Glitter on AB ($35 $25ea) These were only available through me, never sold in the store. 2 1 ea Time and Space Yellow AS ($25 $20 ea) 5 ea Time and Space Blue AS($15 ea) 5 4 ea Time and Space Blue AG ($10 ea) 1 ea Petrified Wood Compass Geocoin - Polished Gold - $35 $25 ea 1 ea Petrified Wood Compass Geocoin - Polished Nickel - $35 $25 ea 1 ea LE Petrified Wood Compass Geocoin - Antique Copper -$50 $25 ea(obo) 4 3 ea New Zealand GPS Society Kiwi Brushed Copper ($25 ea $20 ea) 2 ea New Zealand GPS Society Canterbury Earthquake Cathedral AS ($20 ea) 1 Set of Compass Rose Geocoin 2009 (set = $100, I prefer to sell these as aset,once the set is broken individual prices take over, and I will remove thepricefor the set) --- Polished gold with polished nickel ($20 ea $18ea) --- Polished nickel with polished gold ($20 ea $18ea) --- Antique bronze with polished nickel ($20 ea $18ea) --- Antique silver with polished gold ($20 ea $18ea) --- Antique copper with polished nickel ($20 ea $18ea) --- Limited edition black nickel with polished nickel ($30 ea $25 ea) 1 ea Texas Blue Bonnet (by Chris Rake) ($25 ea) 1 ea 2007 Dragon Fly AS multicolored LE ($30 ea $25ea) 2 ea 2007 Compass Rose -Satin gold ($20 ea) 1 ea 2007 Compass Rose - Antique bronze ($20 ea) 1 ea 2008 Compass Rose -Antique silver ($20 ea) 1 ea Pororoca Two-Tone LE ($25 ea $20 ea) 1 ea Pocket Decoder AB ($25) All coins below are $10 each (ea) plus the above mentioned shipping costs toUS and international. 1 ea Team OleOmi Black Nickel 1 ea New Zealand Kiwi Polished Gold 1 ea Dr. Neal Polished Gold 1 ea Corps of Discovery AS 1 ea 2007 Cape Spear Lighthouse Polished Nickel 1 ea Beach Ball Polished Gold 1 ea Atwell Family AG 1 ea 366 Leapyear AS 1 ea Mt Rushmore BM AS 1 ea Lunenburg County Cachers Polished Gold 1 ea Buttermilk BM satin Silver 1 ea Buttermilk BM antique Copper 1 ea Bilby Tower BM AG 1 ea Corps of Discovery II BM 1 ea MGA-AGM polished Copper 1 ea Laval K-9 -Around Clock Caching BN 1 ea Geocaching Club March 2006 1 ea Alabama Open Invitational Event Polished Gold 1 ea Team Sand Dollar 2006 BN 1 ea MiGo 2007 Summer 1 ea Cache Counter Black Nickel (the one with the small star inside the cointhat indicated the number of caches found) 1 ea Geocaching Germany Satin Gold (this is one of the first German themedcoins) 1 ea Starkville Mafia Polished Nickel 1 ea Black Canyon Beach Luau Event BN 1 ea Geocoin Fest2007 Multievent Oregon PG 1 ea Geocoin Fest 2007 Multievent Quebec PG 1 ea Geocoin Fest 2007 Multievent Aoteora PG 1 ea Caching on the Moon AC 1 ea Florida Geocaching Association 2007 (not the gator) Polished Nickel 1 ea American Radio Relay League AB 1 ea What was in your mailbox today? polished Nickel 1 ea Bikedog ploished Copper 1 ea Geocoinclub April 2006 1 ea Cleaning the World - One Cache at the Time AC 1 ea California Poppy PG (micro) 1 ea Idaho 2007AS (micro) 1 ea Nacaya polished Gold (the one with the Sail Plane on one side) Thanks and Happy caching.<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;">

Here is an updated list and a price reduction, as I guess I have not been on the ebay place nor in the forums very often and overestimated the value of these coins. I have reduced some of them. Hope this is a better pricing. If there is anything you see, make me an offer, as I really like to make some Christmas money. Thanks. 4 ea Time and Space AE/LE Red Glitter on AB ($35 $25 ea) These were only available through me, never sold in the store. 2 ea Time and Space Yellow AS ($25 $20 ea) 1 ea Time and Space Orange Glitter AS ($25 $20 ea) 5 ea Time and Space Blue AS($15 ea) 5 ea Time and Space Blue AG ($10 ea) 1 ea Petrified Wood Compass Geocoin - Polished Gold - $35 $25 ea 1 ea Petrified Wood Compass Geocoin - Polished Nickel - $35 $25 ea 1 ea LE Petrified Wood Compass Geocoin - Antique Copper -$50 $25 ea(obo) 4 ea New Zealand GPS Society Kiwi Brushed Copper ($25 ea $20 ea) 2 ea New Zealand GPS Society Canterbury Earthquake Cathedral AS ($20 ea) 1 Set of Compass Rose Geocoin 2009 (set = $100, I prefer to sell these as a set,once the set is broken individual prices take over, and I will remove the pricefor the set) --- Polished gold with polished nickel ($20 ea $18 ea) --- Polished nickel with polished gold ($20 ea $18 ea) --- Antique bronze with polished nickel ($20 ea $18 ea) --- Antique silver with polished gold ($20 ea $18 ea) --- Antique copper with polished nickel ($20 ea $18 ea) --- Limited edition black nickel with polished nickel ($30 ea $25 ea) 1 ea Texas Blue Bonnet (by Chris Rake) ($25 ea) 1 ea 2007 Dragon Fly AS multicolored LE ($30 ea $25 ea) 2 ea 2007 Compass Rose -Black nickel ($20 ea) 2 ea 2007 Compass Rose -Satin gold ($20 ea) 1 ea 2007 Compass Rose - Antique bronze ($20 ea) 1 ea 2008 Compass Rose -Antique silver ($20 ea) 1 ea Pororoca Two-Tone LE ($25 ea $20 ea) 1 ea Pocket Decoder AB ($25) Shipping and prices of the other coins in the first post are still valid, but are negotiable. Thanks.

I am having a Christmas sale of mostly older coins. I would like to sell these coins here in the forums before I put them up on the auctions site. If you see some of your personal coins and would like them back please let me know and I will trade them back to you. If you think that some of the coins are priced too high, make me a reasonable offer. Payment will be through PayPal. All sales are final. All coins are in plastic pouches, trackable and ALL ARE UNACTIVATED. Prices in parenthesis behind the coin name are for one coin (ea = each). I have multiples of the coins I minted and some of the others I have traded for over the years. Shipping within the US will be $3.00 for the first coin and $0.75 for each additional one (This includes the postage, bubble wrap envelope and some of the PayPal fees). International shipping rates will have to be determined based on the country and the amount of coins (sorry for that, just contact me with the coins you are looking for and we will work this out). You will have to pay import taxes/fees on these as I will have to list them as what they are on the customs declaration page. I will be in Germany the week of December 10 to 17 and can ship European coins from there if that is cheaper (you would have to determine that, and give me a price for the shipping). I will mark out what is sold. First come first serve. Please feel free to ask questions, I might not have used the proper terminology of each coins name. So please make sure that what you think I mean with the coin description I used below is what you actually want. I will try to get to emails as quick as my work and home schedule let me. Don't worry, offer for coins are time stamped with your email. Please send emails to geocointrade@gmail.com,that way I can keep them separate from my oshndoc account. And last but not least: *********If you buy a 10 or more coins I will add one trackable coin of my choice for free.********** Here we go. The first 8 rows of coins listed were designed and minted by me through Coins and Pins. 4 ea Time and Space AE/LE Red Glitter on AB ($35 ea) These were only available through me, never sold in the store. 2 ea Time and Space Yellow AS ($25 ea) 1 ea Time and Space Orange Glitter AS ($25 ea) 5 ea Time and Space Blue AS($15 ea) 5 ea Time and Space Blue AG ($10 ea) 1 ea Petrified Wood Compass Geocoin - Polished Gold - $35 1 ea Petrified Wood Compass Geocoin - Polished Nickel - $35 1 ea LE Petrified Wood Compass Geocoin - Antique Copper -$50 (obo) 4 ea New Zealand GPS Society Kiwi Brushed Copper ($25 ea) 2 ea New Zealand GPS Society Canterbury Earthquake Cathedral AS ($20 ea) 1 Set of Compass Rose Geocoin 2009 (set = $100, I prefer to sell these as a set,once the set is broken individual prices take over, and I will remove the pricefor the set) --- Polished gold with polished nickel ($20 ea) --- Polished nickel with polished gold ($20 ea) --- Antique bronze with polished nickel ($20 ea) --- Antique silver with polished gold ($20 ea) --- Antique copper with polished nickel ($20 ea) --- Limited edition black nickel with polished nickel ($30 ea) 1 ea Texas Blue Bonnet (by Chris Rake) ($25 ea) 1 ea 2007 Dragon Fly AS multicolored LE ($30 ea) 2 ea 2007 Compass Rose -Black nickel ($20 ea) 2 ea 2007 Compass Rose -Satin gold ($20 ea) 1 ea 2007 Compass Rose - Antique bronze ($20 ea) 1 ea 2008 Compass Rose -Antique silver ($20 ea) 1 ea Pororoca Two-Tone LE ($25) 1 ea Pocket Decoder AB ($25) All coins below are $10 each (ea) plus the above mentioned shipping costs to US and international. 1 ea Sleeping Dragon Nickel 1 ea Team OleOmi Black Nickel 1 ea New Zealand Kiwi Polished Gold 1 ea Dr. Neal Polished Gold 1 ea Corps of Discovery AS 1 ea 2007 Cape Spear Lighthouse Polished Nickel 1 ea Beach Ball Polished Gold 1 ea Atwell Family AG 1 ea Washington National Monument Benchmark AG 1 ea 366 Leapyear AC 1 ea 366 Leapyear AS 1 ea Mt Rushmore BM AS 1 ea Mt Rushmore BM AG 1 ea 2006 GBES Navigational Rally AG 1 ea Lunenburg County Cachers Polished Gold 1 ea Buttermilk BM satin Silver 1 ea Buttermilk BM antique Copper 1 ea Bilby Tower BM AG 1 ea Corps of Discovery II BM 1 ea MGA-AGM polished Copper 1 ea Breath ofLife Satin Nickel Satin Gold 1 ea Laval K-9 -Around Clock Caching BN 1 ea Galileo -Sputnik polished Nickel 1 ea Geocaching Club March 2006 1 ea Alabama Open Invitational Event Polished Gold 1 ea Team Sand Dollar 2006 BN 1 ea Volunteer Reviewers in Germany 2007 BN 1 ea MiGo 2007 Summer 1 ea Cache Counter Black Nickel (the one with the small star inside the coin that indicated the number of caches found) 1 ea Geocaching Germany Satin Gold (this is one of the first German themed coins) 1 ea Starkville Mafia Polished Nickel 1 ea Black Canyon Beach Luau Event BN 1 ea Geocoin Fest2007 Multievent Oregon PG 1 ea Geocoin Fest 2007 Multievent Quebec PG 1 ea Geocoin Fest 2007 Multievent Aoteora PG 1 ea Caching on the Moon AC 1 ea Florida Geocaching Association 2007 (not the gator) Polished Nickel 1 ea American Radio Relay League AB 1 ea What was in your mailbox today? polished Nickel 1 ea Bikedog ploished Copper 1 ea Geocoinclub April 2006 1 ea Cleaning the World - One Cache at the Time AC 1 ea California Poppy PG (micro) 1 ea Idaho 2007AS (micro) 1 ea Nacaya polished Gold (the one with the Sail Plane on one side) 1 ea Fortune favors the Bold AC Geocoin Club 1 ea Geographic Southpole BM Antique Bronze Thanks and Happy caching.

These are very sad news to hear. God must have had thought that he was ready to come home to him. Rest in Peace my friend. I will keep those coins you made for me, in your memory. Just too add some thoughts: "Death's power is limited -- It cannot eradicate memories Or slay love It cannot destroy even a threadbare faith Or permanently hobble the smallest hope in God It cannot permeate the soul And it cannot cripple the spirit It merely separates us for a while That is the only power death can claim --No more" ― Donna VanLiere

It is time for me to slim down on my collection. See below for a list of coins. I will add to the list as I thin out my collection to raise some funds for a new daily driver (need one with lower miles) I figured I will start with $10 plus $1.50 for shipping for the first coin and $0.50 for each additional coin in the US (Or until it is worth sending one of those standard size fixed cost packages). For international shipping will have to be figured out by weight as this can become pretty expensive. I have other coins as well, so if you are looking for something specific and don't see it here, send me an email. Everything I have is pre 2009 - none of the newer coins. Sorry. If you think that the asking price for a specific coin is too high. Make me an acceptable counter offer that I cannot refuse . Here we go. TSD 2006 TSD-327 Black Nickel Trackable Dr. Neal PG Tybee Island Nickel Buffalo Soldiers AS Christmas 2005 - Winter Wonderland Night Hunter BN 2008 Oakcoins 2007 Christmas Ornament Suncatcher, Polished Copper AE (1/15) 366 LeapYear AS 366 LeapYear AC Team NAB AS Templar AG Templar AS Templar AC South East New Brunswick Polished Nickel XLE Starkville MAFIA silver Cape Spear Lighthouse Polished NIckel Geocoinfest 2007 Quebec Geocoinfest 2007 Aoteaora Geocoinfest 2007 Oregon Michigan 2006 Winter What was in your Mailbox Nickel American Radio Relay League AG Florida Caching 2007 Polished NIckel (2 ea) Beach Ball Polished Gold 2007 British Columbia First German Geocoin Satin Gold GCC March 2006 GCC April 2006 GCC December 2008 Nacaya Polished Gold Atwell Family AG California Poppy Micro PG Mount Rushmore BM (BM Club) Satin silver Mount Rushmore BM (BM Club) AG Washington National Monument BM (BM Club) AG Corps of Discovery BM (BM Club) Nickel (2ea) Buttermilk BM (BM Club) SS Buttermilk BM (BM Club) AC Billby Tower BM (BM Club) AG Rhein Nahe AS The D.E.A.D Family PG Alabama Open International PG Cystic Fibrosis Satin silver/Gold German Reviewer 8-8-8 Satin Nickel Sputnik - Galileo CITO 2007 AC (LE) Laval K-9 Cache is King AG Bike Dog Polished Copper Lunenburg County Two-Tone Cache Counter BN Team OleOmi BN (square) United We Cache PG Michigan Summer 2007 Sleeping Dragon PN MooseMob-RoadRunner PG New Zealand Kiwi - Clean Green Caching Two Tone 2006 GBES Navigation Rally AG MGA-AGM 2006 Copper 2006 Generic Micro BN Caching on the Moon AC Idaho 2007 Black Canyon Beach Luau, BN 8:32 CST: Updated for availability. Thanks for the help.

Very nice! --- What is the icon going to look like? Have a couple of those mystery ones and some great stories to go along with them.Sure would love to get one of your personal edition Marianne.

Very nice design Marianne! Maybe we can get a trade for one of your AE's lined up.

I am interested in a full size Freemason geocoin (not a travel tag, or micro) as a birthday present for a friend of mine. I have a long list of coins for trade a lot of them from before 2008/2009 So if you have one for trade please contact me through my geocaching account and maybe I have something that you might have been looking for. Thanks.

It looks like you have tried most of the options available. Is there an 8 in the code that could be mistaken for a B? If not you could take a closeup picture of the code and contact Groundspeak and they might be able to help.

Looking for a couple of Masonic Coins (not pathtags) for a couple of friends of mine. Anyone has one of these up for trade, please shoot me an email through my profile, I might have something you are looking for in my box of older traders. Much appreciated. (No PM's please).