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Yet they rarely do that. I disagree.

If you go to the Help Center on Geocaching.com scroll down to section 6.1 to find out about minting your own geocoins and 6.2 for getting tracking numbers.

Because they can and do get away with it.

I'm not sure I understand what you did or didn't do. So.... have you tried Activation Retrieval page?

Unfortunately what you ask is impossible. If you feel strongly about it you can purchase another geocoin of equal value as the one the coin owner lost and mail it off to them. If you really want to go out of your way see if you can find a similar coin. But a similar coin with the same tracking number is impossible as the coins are marked with that unique identifier at the mint so it can get expensive to go that route for an exact replacement. There has only been one time I was really angry with a cacher who placed a coin of mine in a cache that got muggled/stolen/vandalized. I would normally not hold the cacher responsible but this guy actually logged that the cache was in a bad location and was asking to be muggled. He knew it would be muggled and dropped a coin there anyway. He was the last to log a find to that cache. I suspect you did not place your cache in such a way that it would be obvious to passersby inviting it to be ransacked or vandalized so you can hardly be held accountable for what happened.... unless you knew it was a bad spot and put it (the cache and the others guy's coin) there anyway.

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Perhaps you are entering a 1 for an I, a 0 for a O, a B for an 8 or ..... check the tracking code on the coin closely, use a magnifying glass if you have to. If that doesn't work come back for suggestions on what to try next.

Yes, a Note is a courteous way to let other cachers know what happened to the bug/coin they thought might be there. And if you like moving travelers there is nothing to keep you from moving them, that's what they were released for.

Is it even logged in the hands of a cacher? or still in a cache millions of miles away? At first glance it could be that you grabbed the coin out of the cache before the dropper-offer has had a chance to log the cache find or the coin drop. If it's in someone's hands give them a chance to catch up... or even email them to tell them you're waiting for them to log it in before you log it out. If it's still in the other cache just log a "grab from somewhere else". It'll then go into your inventory and you can drop it off next chance you get.

Never mind.

Looks like you forgot a dot between com and au.

If you don't want to have your coin be trackable on Geocaching.com you don't have to abide by the conditions for being able to track your coin on Geocaching.com. Lots of folks make their own personal coins and leave them as swag in caches, some even create their own website to track their personal sigitems. But if you want to use someone else's website you kinda hafta do what they want you to do to do so. However minting a coin or finding a designer etc is not the purview of Groundspeak (owners of Geocaching.com) so you won't find instructions here. There is tons of information in the discussion threads if you have the patience to sift through all the material. Or you can contact someone who has made a coin you like and ask to pick their brain. Or you can hire someone to help you through the process the first time.... the second you can go your own way. Good luck and I hope you succeed in your efforts.

We ran simulations and focus groups on this question just recently and determined beyond a shadow of doubt that if it isn't tracked it's not trackable.

I think you're barking at the wrong tree.... try the challenge coins.

I"m sure the USFS, or certain Ranger Districts, has an account to keep track of caches placed in national parks that violate park regulations, or at least they did (virtuals only are allowed).

Thanks for the head's up..... took a look at my trackables, sorted it by last log and found a discovery to a coin I have here at home. Quick delete, quick email and all done. Easy peazy.

Without naming names is this cacher in Germany, by any chance?

Excellent....

The only restriction that I remember on that one is that Signal will always be the owner of record. You won't be able to adopt it away to the buyer.

I agree with the BeeLady. If you leave temptation out there angels will fall. I think it's awfully generous of you to want to do this but I would encourage that you only keep one prize coin in the cache at any given time. Whenever someone logs a find go replace the prize coin. OR have them contact you after logging the find and you can send them the coin - which implies you'd check the logbook at the cache to ensure those who contact you have indeed found it and aren't just logging it virtually to win a free coin. If you activate them and adopt them out you can always bookmark them and follow their activities as if they were still yours. Even if they don't move you have a gossamer string attached and keeping track.

Sheesh.... 2500+ activated coins? No, I don't have your problem as it took 2 days just to move my 250 activated, non traveling coins from inventory to collection and I thought THAT was a feat but it ain't nuthin' compared to what you're lookin' at. I counted 14 clicks of the mouse for each coin the first time I started moving inventory to collection but the process did get refined to 9 clicks last time I did it and completed job. Even at 9 clicks a coin you're gonna be putting some serious wear and tear on that mouse of yours.... a more than a little cramping to your digits.

Contact the owner to inform them of the confusion you experienced so they can change the goal to something realistic to those who actually read the mission statements. In the absence of a goal that actually makes sense just move the coin along.

The coin should already be logged into the cache you found it in. You are only retrieving it and placing it into your inventory. When you drop it off there is a selection you make after you've written your "found it" log where the trackable is added to the cache in question. For better familiarization Click on Trackables (step 2 above), where you'll find links to Geocoin Home, How to log a geocoin and Geocoin FAQ (see block above left of Step 3 above). Much is explained there for you.

Yikes.... Try going through Groundspeak. If the Swedish store can confirm you bought the coin from them that they had bought legitimately from the registered owner who is now unavailable to initiate adoption papers they may be able to override that and do it for you.

It's not uncommon for coins not to be logged out of a cache after it's been grabbed. In fact it's probably more common not to find a coin you're looking for in a cache than it is to find it. Nothing nefarious. It's just that the cacher ahead of you retrieved the coin but hasn't gotten around to logging it out, or as a newb doesn't know to do so or how. I did a little digging and found the coin you are referring to -TB5CX56 - but no others... the earlier one must have since been logged out of the cache you hoped to find it in. The coin was discovered by the cache owner. Another cacher logged a find ahead of you but made no mention of the coin. Did they pick it up? Did the cache owner? If you really want to find out send out a friendly email to each to find out what happened since finding that coin meant so much to you, judging from your "found it" post.