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Also check ebay.

If it doesn't say "trackable on geocaching.com" it is not trackable. Typcally what you called a roulette coin or poker chip is a personal or signature item... it is swag, to be traded for with something of equal or greater value.

There is no logic as the acts are entirely thoughtless, selfish and self centered.... it's really very childish. Don't worry about your reputation as relates to the proxies you're forced to put out as no one is going to care about the stranger at the other end of the tracking link. In fact why even bother since any feedback you'll get is going to be on the negative side anyway. Anyway, join the club. If you're a coin owner and have released any you will have to suffer the loss of stolen or missing geocoins. It's a fact of life. As many have said in the past: "if you can't bear to lose geocoins don't leave them out in the woods". Sorry for your loss.

It's entirely possible someone grabbed it since you physically dropped it off and logged it into their possession before you could log the drop. If it had happened while the coin was still in your possession then it would cause for alarm. Not something to get concerned about as it can happen to anyone but it's a good reason for logging trackables at the soonest opportunity.

Whoa Doc.... congratulations.

Yep.... you won't get many emails unless you put a lot of effort into building and hiding the most awesome cache then you might get a few more than usual.... until someone loves the idea and steals it, not just the idea but the entire cache. Even the best designed cache is only as good as the effort the last cacher made to put it back in it's place. Over time even you might be hard pressed to find it. If you care about your caches you'll want to know what's going on with them and visits them on occasion and restore them as you had originally intended.

Is that front and back designs for a single coin production or multiple designs for multiple coin productions?

Did you submit your design for approval?

A good place to start is to find the Geocoin Home page so you can read up on geocoins..... hit the hyperlink to take you there. Second thing is to make sure you read the tracking number correctly as any transposition error will sink any effort to find a geocoin in the tracking system. A magnifying glass or lens is a good tool to have. And lastly please do not post the tracking numbers of any travel bugs or geocoins to a public forum or post photos where the number can be seen. The tracking numbers are to be kept secret except for those who have found them or have seen them in person. Hope that helps to get you started.

There is always the Trackables Page with all sorts of answers to various and sundry questions.... click on Trackables Page here.

Have you entered your home coordinates in your GC profile? That will place you in the map but the trackables on the map are notoriously mistracked. I never saw the map update over the years except randomly and inaccurately.

Hate to ask a stupid question but have you tried a magnifying glass? Some of us old coots have been using them as standard equipment for a while 'coz that is not an uncommon problem. Another tip is to photograph the coin and blow it up to full resolution. Good luck.

You can't do it yourself. You need to contact Groundspeak and inform them of what happened and request that they do it.

How do you get dumped as a freelancer? Isn't that like breaking up when you're single? Or being fired when you're unemployed? How rude! Best wishes selling coins.

Funny.... my activated coins in the drawer are getting more hits than the ones I released. It's no fun having to delete logs.

You've released a coin that has a greater chance of being lost or going missing than not and now it's picked up by someone who could have stolen it but instead logs it regularly. I know it's annoying but it's also a win-win. They get to keep a coin for a while and you get to enjoy its travels. The alternative is that the more cachers it sees the greater the chance you'll never see it again or hear from it again. Sometimes a little discomfort in the short term gets you what you want in the long term.

The problem with FTF coins is that they are a one trick pony. It can only be found first once. So you can either leave it as a FTF prize in a cache of yours, or activate it and dip it in every cache you're the FTF or treat as any other coin. Many choices and you're the one who gets to make it.

It's possible you mistook one digit for another when tracking numbers can be so small. Use a magnifying glass and make sure you didn't enter a 0 for an O, an I for a 1, a 2 for an Z, a 5 for an S, a B for a 3 and so on. Transcription errors are very common.

Contact the seller that you are the registered owner and inform them you are reporting them to Ebay for the sale of stolen goods. Ebay will shut them down in a jiffy.

Give the dropper a couple of days to catch up with their paperwork, then just grab it. You have the coin with its secret number which allows you to grab it and drop it. If the previous person is taking forever to log it into the cache, the drop, you shouldn't be expected to wait forever. From the coin's travel page you can assume the last person to log a grab or retrieval is probably the one who left it in the cache without logging it in. Let them know you're waiting on them so they can log their leg of the journey before you log yours.

Is the coin in fact a Xmas snow globe? If it is not you may have mis-transcribed the tracking number and got another coin instead. If it is in fact LandSharkz Snow Globe... does it have anywhere in its vinyl pouch the activation code to activate it? Or you may need to contact recent finders and ask them if they dropped off the wrong coin by mistake. Finding unactivated coins is very rare but the only way for it to be a gift is if the giver left instructions on how to activate it. Oh ... and for future reference it is not wise to post in public the tracking code on a coin... it is meant to be secret and only available to those who have found or seen the coin in person.

It's your coin to do with as you want. If you want to log mileage accumulated from cache to cache just "dip" it each cache you've visited. You may have to write a note to each of the old caches to log the visit with the coin's tracking system but then delete the note at the cache so it doesn't clog up their list.... not a biggie but a courtesy to the cache owner. You can even post pics with your visits of each cache for a better recollection of the time there. If you want to log mileage from home to each cache or for every cache outing you may have to create a "home" cache, publish it and archive it. It will serve as your home base from which you leave for every cache outing and return your coin after visiting the caches of the day. It's more work than really necessary and you'll all those "home" entries between each cache outing. But you'll accumulate plenty of miles without that extra step each time.

You can drive yourself nuts over a $10 trinket. Sadly, all you can do is wait until they discover the coin again or someone they know does and decides to put it back into circulation. And hope after they do that the cache they drop it into isn't muggled. The first rule about releasing coins is "Never leave in the woods something you cherish or don't wish to lose."

The new owners may not care. But if they do I'm sure they will contact you.

I just can't imagine buying a geocoin, going through the effort of activating it and creating a travel page for it only to have it deliberately taken out of circulation by someone else. If I wanted to make an anonymous gift to the next finder I'd leave it in the cache unactivated, and a clear description so there is no confusion when it can't be logged in and retrieved from the cache and how to go about activating it. That said however, it has to be admitted that the checkbox marking a geocoin collectable or not is very confusing and suggests at lot more than it serves. A nice explanation of it next to the checkbox would be helpful. A good rule of thumb is that an activated traveler is released to travel from cache to cache and is being followed in the tracking system by its owner. There are a few exceptions to this but they are best ignored as statistically insignificant.