BLMBilbo

I wonder why people are cheating like this? I think we all agree it's part of the fun to actually handle a trackable as we discover it. I guess the cheaters have a mental condition - inferiority complex. They're also logging caches in the same way - rarely leaving home to actually visit a cache. So, if I lock a trackable to keep it from being discovered, and it's actually in someone's hands, does that mean they can't log it when they drop it in a cache?

I looked through the Geocoin Forum to see if this topic already existed and it does not appear to be. Besides geocoins, there's all these really cool coins out there - memorials, awards, military, etc. So is there a way in the geocoin/geocaching/Groundspeak world that a non-geocoin could be made into a geocoin by a number being assigned, etc? If so, who does that? If not, it would be cool to do. I thought about drilling a hole through and riveting a TB on or otherwise attaching it. But that's just a TB unless on the TB page I said "no, this is really a geocoin..." But it would far better to get a geocoin number.

I'm not much for the forums but was looking for a geocoin topic that doesn't seem to exist yet and came across this one. Well, I work in Roswell, New Mexico, so of course I would've bought some. Drat. Learned my lesson about be a stranger to the forums.

After seeing all the photos of all the geocoin collections in this forum - it's pretty obvious - people are simply collecting them - I guess they've become collectibles with all the other goofy collectibles in America. When I see one of my coins go for awhile without circulation, I look to see whose hands it's in and I send them a message to please put it back in circulation. No one ever does and no one ever replies. So much for cacher ethics. It's aggravating to realize all that money was wasted on coins, but then on the other hand, what is it we do with caches? We gift each other. But I'll not become a collector. The solution is what we are seeing often from our comrades who've run into the same problem - buy the coin, copy or digitally photo it, high-quality, color, double-sided, laminate it, send that out and keep the coin as the master. Wait, that makes me a collector, hmmm? Collecting your own stuff. So that's where family antiques come from...