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I just received my Midnight Typhoon! I didn't even know that I'd won. Things have been busy here with class/ new home/ work.... so I haven't been on the forums like I would like to be :/ The coin is excellent.... will go nicely with my original gold and turquoise coin.... I guess I'm going to have to go back and get the rest of the set I am very impressed with how well the Black nickel and purple look together. Thank you very much!

My picks are in..... Go Bengals .... gotta pick it up Palmer (you're embarrassing us out there!)

Lmao.... by far the most amusing thread that I've seen in awhile! You guys are great!

I can't find the actual link to the spreadsheet.... can somebody help me out.... I know that I've found it before. Thanks!

Congrats Nikos!

1100

1000

Congrats Tschakko!

Congrats Tschakko!

or 876

or 989

hows about 1234

..... scratch that.... just looked at your recent caches. I'm so jealous... I've been wanting to go to Australia and New Zealand for awhile.

Offtopic..... Hey gorilla.... are you back from down unda'? Just wonderin

Guess 2: 668 pieces

Guess 1: 777 pieces

Well.... my favorite that I own has to be the Close Encounter of the Third Kind (it's also the only one that I own..... but would still be on my want list. I'm a geek!) My favorite mystery coin designs other than that are: New World Order Carpe Diem and Mystical Greenman Thank you so much to the Mystery Coin giver that sent me the Close Encounter coin! I still love it! Have a great Labor Day weekend everybody!

my picks are in.... fingers crossed

I like the design on option 2 more.... but I think that option 1 would turn out better because of the darker colors in the background (they would recede and make the bright labrynth "pop" more). Have you considered option two, but with darker backgroun colors like option 1?

Hmmmm.... hows about Persian Night or Midnight Typhoon or Dark Dubloon

Congrats to the latest crew

I bit... I can't wait to take my nephew to a place like that

Alright Alright.... Since it is late I am just going to copy and paste from Wiki. The image uploader is down right now, but I have all kinds of pictures from my wife and I going to Point Pleasant on a day trip. On November 15, 1966, two young, married couples from Point Pleasant, Roger and Linda Scarberry, and Steve and Mary Mallette, were traveling late at night in the Scarberrys' car. They were passing the West Virginia Ordnance Works, an abandoned World War II TNT factory, about seven miles north of Point Pleasant, in the 2,500 acre (10 km²) McClintic Wildlife Management Area, when they supposedly noticed two red lights in the shadows by an old generator plant near the factory gate. They stopped the car, and reportedly discovered that the lights were the glowing red eyes of a large animal, "shaped like a man, but bigger, maybe six and a half or seven feet tall, with big wings folded against its back," according to Roger Scarberry. Terrified, they drove toward Route 62, where the creature supposedly chased them at speeds exceeding 100 miles per hour. A plaque on the Mothman statue provides a version of the original legend: "On a chilly, fall night in November 1966, two young couples drove into the TNT area north of Point Pleasant, West Virginia, when they realized they were not alone." Driving down the exit road, they saw the supposed creature standing on a nearby ridge. It spread its wings and flew alongside the vehicle up to the city limits. They drove to the Mason County courthouse to alert Deputy Millard Halstead, who later said, "I've known these kids all their lives. They'd never been in any trouble and they were really scared that night. I took them seriously." He then followed Roger Scarberry's car back to the secret ex-U.S. Federal bomb and missile factory, but found no trace of the strange creature. According to the book Alien Animals, by Janet and Colin Bord, a poltergeist attack on the Scarberry home occurred later that night, during which the creature was seen several times. The plaque on the Mothman statue The following night, on November 16, several armed townspeople combed the area around the TNT plant for signs of Mothman. Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Wamsley, and Mrs. Marcella Bennett, with her infant daughter Teena, were in a car en-route to visit their friends, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Thomas, who lived in a small house near the igloos (concrete dome-shaped dynamite storage structures erected during WW-II) near the TNT plant. The igloos were now empty, some owned by the county, others by companies intending to use them for storage. They were heading back to their car when a figure supposedly appeared behind their parked vehicle. Mrs. Bennett said that it seemed like it had been lying down, slowly rising up from the ground, large and gray, with glowing red eyes. While Wamsley phoned the police, the creature supposedly walked onto the porch and peered in at them through the window. On November 24, four people allegedly saw the creature flying over the TNT area. On the morning of November 25, Thomas Ury, who was driving along Route 62 just north of the TNT, claimed to have seen the creature standing in a field, and then it spread its wings and flew away, and Thomas sped toward the Point Pleasant sheriff's office.[2] A supposed Mothman sighting was again reported on January 11, 1967 hovering over the town's bridge, and several other times that same year. Fewer sightings of the Mothman were reported after the collapse of the town's bridge, the Silver Bridge, when 46 people died. The Silver Bridge, so named for its aluminium paint, was an eyebar chain suspension bridge that connected the cities of Point Pleasant, West Virginia and Gallipolis, Ohio over the Ohio River. The bridge was built in 1928, and it collapsed on December 15, 1967. Investigation of the bridge wreckage pointed to the failure of a single eye-bar in a suspension chain due to a small manufacturing flaw. There are rumors that the Mothman appears before upcoming disasters and seems to try to warn people of them. After that, mothman was never again seen in Point Pleasant. I will have to update this when I have a chance... but we have pictures in front of this cool statue. Also.... Point Pleasant is also know for being the first site of the Revolutionary war. From what I understand the British payed the Indians to fight against the Americans. More from Wiki: The town is also noted for the October 10, 1774, Battle of Point Pleasant, in which Virginia militiamen led by Colonel Andrew Lewis defeated an Algonquin Confederation of Shawnee and Mingo warriors led by Shawnee Chief Cornstalk. The event is celebrated in Point Pleasant as the first battle of the American Revolutionary War, and in 1908 the US Senate authorized erection of a monument to commemorate Point Pleasant as the site of the first battle of the American Revolution. Most historians, however, regard it not as a battle of the Revolution but instead as a part of Lord Dunmore's War. Again... we have more pictures near this giant obelisk.... bu the uploader is down :/ Point PLeasant is actually a pretty cool little town. It sits on the confluence of the Kanawha and the Ohio rRivers. George Washington was posted at the very nearby Ft Randolph for a short time. The town hosts a festival every year in September to commemorate the Mothman and the Silver Bridge. The Town was featured in a movie "The Mothman Prophecies". I guess it is related to geocaching just because the idea of History being tied in with most of the caches in that town.

Awesome.... I cant wait to get it started. Bengals Baby!

This looks like a pretty neat cointest.... a bit of a trade cointest. I will see what I can dig up in the area. I might do a cointest sort of like this after we get finished moving