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A Buck coin and even a 2buck coin have been done as well as the credit card.

Looks like you got'er done..... here's your icon. Now when you click on that icon it'll take you right to that coin's page.

Whether to activate of not is up to you and what you hope to get out of the activation. Do you want a list of icons on your Trackables Owned column, do you want to make your coins available to other cachers you may meet for discovery, would you want to release them into the wild to travel? Those are personal preferences. However I think you should pull and start to keep the activation codes if you choose not to activate. A simple table is easy to generate in any word processing software..... Coin name, tracking number, Activation code, vendour, price and any other pertinent information you may wish to know a few years from now that will most certainly have escaped you by then. I would err on the side of caution as information available online today may not be when you want to seek it out.

Keep deleting the discovery logs you feel are coming from Flickr and you might offer the discoverers an email explaining why. Have you emailed the owner of the Flickr account? Just posting a comment to the Flickr page won't get their attention as those are not forwarded by email as a geocoin log will. Edit to add.... If you go to the Flickr user's profile they have a Geocaching Stats badge with their caching name as well as short self description. It does not sound like they'd deliberately hijack a coin or intentionally fail to log it out a cache for their own nefarious benefit. You may want to contact them and gently explain your dilemma. They do have lots of experience (>6000 cache finds according to the badge) so they may well understand your predicament... especially if you tell them about the Freezing of the tracking page from all the Virtual logs it's been getting lately. Good luck

How could you be so bitter about comments made about the pricing of your coin when you've only been caching for 10 days with 17 caches found to date? The beauty of the Internet is you can be anything you want to be and I can choose to believe only that which I find plausible. A lot of people come through here trying to sell anything and everything. Many get into the geocoin "racket" because of the apparent high prices posted on Ebay. I don't know which you are but given your tone I'm taking you with a large grain of salt. You have a right to price your coins any which way you want and respondents have the same right to voice their opinion about it. As Kealia said, it's a double edged sword.... if you want to use Forums for free advertising expect comments that may not be entirely flattering. Pay for advertising, on the other hand, and no one gets to say a word. Your choice. BTW.... if people say they'd pay $20 for your coins why are you making a stink about it? Just sell it to them.... and be done with the drama.

The best part of geocoins is when you find a really really cool one in a cache you get to enjoy it for a short while then let it go. It's in the letting it go that it stays with you and haunts you and before you know it you're up to your eyeballs in coin albums, bubblemailers and trade lists.

I've used a regular drill and drill bit with a dab of oil and starting the hole with a small bit. Set your coin on a soft piece of wood, a 2x4 scrap would do nicely, so that the bit can cut through easily and don't press the drill bit too fast or hard ... let the bit do the cutting. To widen start on the backside of the hole and alternate to cut the burrs. You should be able to cut through in a matter of seconds but don't rush it. The coins I've drilled did get complaints that it had to be "defaced", marring the beauty of the artwork and all that, in this way to prevent theft but it still didn't keep them from going missing.

I would apologize profusely for losing the owner's coin and then giving him/her the good news you found it .... and lost it again. Except this time you know where it is but it's just not logged in to where it is. You can inform the owner where the cache is and include the cache's geocode or waypoint so they can drop it there themselves or you can request them to give you the tracking number so you can log it correctly. With 2 strikes against you they may just choose to wait for someone to pick it up and log it in correctly while all the time thanking you for resurrecting it from the grave.

Majority of geocoins are sold by online vendours, though the possibility a local geocacher will sell you geocoins bought online is not unheard of. Go to Trackables and the Geocoin page to seek out the approved manufacturers and vendours. Discussing/praising individual companies is not allowed on the forums as it becomes an ad-fest. Delivery is typically fast, expedient and reliable. Costs are reasonable and affordable.

As coin trading becomes more international one really has to evaluate the abilities of one's own and other countries' abilities to adequately provide postal services. Hold the shipping company responsible? You mean the government? Good luck with that.

Why would you do that? it defeats the purpose of tracking the trackable as it is no longer trackable on the other network and certainly impossible to track back into the proper system. On the other network it simply becomes a piece of swag... anybody can take it and keep it as it's no longer bound by the etiquette and guidelines that protects travelers. Not a good idea and one that would certainly upset the owner.

Also "2" looks like "Z" "8" looks like "B" ... anyway you get the idea. A magnifying glass can be your friend.... or even a camera - shoot in macro mode and blow it up during review on the back.

Typically it's not a good idea to mail someone else's coin.... to move your own out of town or the state is one thing but ask the owner first if it's okay with them.

3. Only one item per tracking code. Multiples are not allowed and will result in freezing the bug's tracking page.

That coin was a semi mystery coin, not really available for sale anywhere specifically. Try the Trade'em, Wan'em and Wish'em thread. Edit to add... and because it was a non trackable it can't be sold on the forums.

I can't believe how expensive geocoins are getting.... wow! I do really like the simplicity of the fanned ridges around the geocaching logo.

Yep it sounds like you didn't know to paint out, digitally erase or just stick a piece of tape over the tracking number for the photo, though how someone knew to get to your coin page and see the photo is still a mystery. But it also happens when people deliberately enter random codes in the search field and if they hit on an activated coin they'll discover it. All you have to do is delete the log as a virtual and you're cool. Welcome to Geocaching U.

Be careful about releasing something you care about into the wild. Sometimes it travels far and wide but often it becomes an interesting bit of shiny metal that gets collected by those with different intentions than you had planned. The easiest way is to drill a hole and attach a Travel Bug Dog Tag. If you want to find out how to create/mint a run of geocoins look in the Knowledge Book.

Lil Yellow Etrex by Garmin is less than $100.

Sadly it's his coin to do as he wishes even if it disappoints oodles of folks who came in contact with it even before he was aware such a coin existed. It just speaks poorly of the individual's sense of courtesy or even civility.

Yey Eartha! I love that you would research for posters on question not directly pertaining to Groundspeak guidelines and such. Sending you a lil love....... and thanks for all you do.

Not so easy.... if it was the whole discussion on the value for unactivated coins exceeding that of activated ones would be moot: the equivalent of running the odometer backwards on a used car to sell it as a new one.

Did you mention how many coins to the bag?

A dyslexic end of epoch event (EoEE).

The concept of "take a traveler leave a traveler" came from cache owners who want to make their cache more interesting with a traveler's icon next to it in the search results. Caches whose owners demand such a trade are now regarded as Bug Jails.