RedShoesGirl
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I'm familiar with the WoT books characters, but I've never seen a pic of the Perrin & Faile geocoin. Do you have a pic?
i think it is a homemade coin ... i think....
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with all the new coin acquisitions floating about and coin collections being sold i am still looking for the following coins. they will most likely stick out in any collection as they are not shiny nor to most have enamel the auntie nae is a yellow rubber ducky in a life preserver. i have a couple of lovely traders and of course the always needed $$$$$.
Waypoint15
bluegillfisherman
Wandering Dragon
2Dolphins
auntieNae
dhenninger - brass
Kokopelli Geocoins by Johnnie Stalkers - homemade i think
SquareD22 fish
Perrin & Faile
Kentucky Geocoins 2004 (From the GeoCachers of Kentucky)
Team FISUR
Pepper Geocoin (Formerly of Team SuperGenius) - bronze
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I have some wonderful news. I have not received any Mystery Geocoins in a long time. Well today I did not only get one Mystery Geocoin I got two. I wanted to Thank You Darth Vader for the awesome Mystery Geocoin. May Sith Happen, and The other Mystery Coin I got from is from The Cache Reaper, Thank You So Much from the Heart from the beginning to the end. I am super excited about these Mystery geocoins, whoever sent them them to me thank you for such kindness and thinking of me. You really touched me. Here is the pictures that I took of them. Keep On Caching! ~Valarie.
that's the kind of news we like to hear valerie. thank you to the coiner that made valerie happy. always nice to see a happy person.
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i wish she would reply to the emails that were sent early, which is how i thought clamm said was going to happen, at least to see if the "wants" i would like are going to be offered for sale or if they have already been sold and i don't have to keep checking the forum to see if a new list has been posted.
One Autienae and tranquilities are hard to find in a large selection of thousands of coins ...
i know! good thing i am not looking for tranqulities, i love the 5 i have and do not covet more. but if the auntie nae shows up on the list...grab it for me!
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i wish she would reply to the emails that were sent early, which is how i thought clamm said was going to happen, at least to see if the "wants" i would like are going to be offered for sale or if they have already been sold and i don't have to keep checking the forum to see if a new list has been posted.
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additional email sent. oh dear, this is the kind of thing that gets me in trouble.
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email sent
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have added the first Tardis police box from Dr. Who to my available list. only looking to trade for the coins on my seeking list.
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toojin dropped by today via the mailbox.
2005 AS
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glad to see it picked up. always exciting!
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never mind. :-)
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That list was the holy grail for quite a long time. I had quite a number of them until recently when I sold off most of what I had (but still have a few).
and thank you very much! but we still have this list.... :-)
the fun times had while forging friendships and going on wild cache hunts at midnight when a coin was dropped in a cache (because it was rare at the time) are priceless memories that I cherish.you were in the right place at the right time. only coins dropped out here in the desert were the little canadian ones - and my friend and i dropped those. never saw a cache with a personal coin drop in it. there was a trackable way out in the big empty that i moved along. it went missing. but that coin was the first coin i saw. then i bought tranquilities. and the addiction started. thank heavens we are over that.
Good luck to all in your search and NEVER give up hope. I've rarely told this story but I will now: ...this was before they became what they are now and before Moun10Bike coins really became as desirable as they are now.Go figure.
thank you for the story. always nice to know the history of a trade. Moun10Bike coins have never really been on my most wanted list. i think i saw a Fisur in a thread way back then, wanted that and then i wanted to make one of my own. that was never going to happen on a newspaper photographers income. so i bought the canadians and then couldn't afford those either. wish i had kept just one.
these are the three amigos in the front row of my collection ...i think i have 40. it's good to be small. i can see them all at once. :-)
so now i have a list of old ones i would like to find. nothing crucial or obsessive, just "would like." most of these are because of aesthetics. they look neat.
auntieNae
Waypoint15
bluegillfisherman
Wandering Dragon
2Dolphins
dhenninger - brass
Kokopelli Geocoins by Johnnie Stalkers - homemade i think
SquareD22 fish
Perrin & Faile
Kentucky Geocoins 2004 (From the GeoCachers of Kentucky)
Team FISUR
Pepper Geocoin (Formerly of Team SuperGenius) - bronze
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GeoNap
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In 2003, GeoNap excitedly released the only version of his coin, "There are a total of 103 numbered GeoNap coins and 3 Limited Edition "blank" coins (ie. no number)... for a total of 106 coins. When they're gone... they're gone." According to CoinTracking, only 36 of those coins are accounted for including two that are listed as available. GeoNap died in 2011, leaving behind myself, Shandell Napieralski, his widow carrying his unborn daughter & three step-children he very much considered his own. Naturally he shared his love of Geocaching with us. As part of our memorial, we are working to revive his old website & would like help in tracing more of his coins with deep hope of finding any spare coins for each of the kiddos. Any assistance would be deeply appreciated!
hopefully we can get the word out and maybe a couple of coins will come out from under the bed. like i said before, you can have mine. it is #65 and in looking on cointracking i can tell it was owned by 2 other people.
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I have managed to get a very few from 2005, non trackable, but nothing from this list yet...
i have three and some other old ones that are not on this list. and i have a few sparklies too. :-)
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I've only been collecting for 1 1/2 years and I love the older coins. I don't know of many of these coins or the stories that go with them, unless someone puts one up for auction at the e-place and includes some info. As a newer collector, the older coins that have been made by coiners in the state I live in are a little easier to get some info about, but still not easier to find the coins. I think there is interest in the old coins, but they seem very, very hard to find... at least for me.
As mentioned in some lost thread before, one problem seems to be to create enough interest to maintain a really good database. Every thread about planning/discussing this kind of a project vanished before long.
-> it's not too hard to find information about trackable coins. But it takes some time.
-> non-trackables are way more difficult, because they are harder to track down ;-(
-> @topic: In the list of "All Geocoins" there is an entry called "HTF Geocoin" (id 1222) - that probably means "Hard to Find Geocoin" - I couldn't find any of those so far... any help?
For the lack of database systems I liked enough I started to create my own database and collected information, sorted by appearance in the trackable pages at Groundspeak's profile pages.
Right now I am stuck in like "spring 2007" (collected about 1600 different coins with almost 4000 different editions of these), about 7 years and 6000 icons behind (Groundspeak hit 7000 recently, there are like 1000 new icons per year now, but people tend to give different editions of the same coin different icons recently, too).
This should give an idea about how much is out there.
About history as far as I got it:
- In 2001 TBs (May to August) and Moun10Bike coins (September) came up about at the same time (all trackables have IDs, the first TB is TB1, the first Moun10Bike Coin is TB1D=#29) - Icon-ID-Numbers 21 and 22
- in 2003 the USA coins were created, Icon-ID-Number 23.
- in 2004 the first Jeep promotional came up (ID 136)
- in 2005 the first German Geocoins (ID 138), GeoWoodstock (139) and the White Jeep (141)
- State Coins, CoinClub and Event-Coins were created in big numbers and Groundspeak started hosting these numbers
- Personal Geocoins by individual cachers were first rejected, but finally Groundspeak created 15.000 numbers for the "Personal Geocoin"-Icon (id 152), that got the original USA-Coin-Icon (23.gif, while the USA-coin has a new icon today: usa.gif). These numbers could be obtained in small numbers, mainly through the early mint services like oakcoins and directmint(personalgeocoins.com). Later they added another 15.000 numbers... some people were able to move their coins to an individual icon way later, especially when they made a remint.
- Compass Rose Coin has id 153. The 2006 CR coin has id 186
So I think the decision to allow personal coins and the appearance of the first Compass Rose Geocoin happened pretty much at the same time and started it all - late 2005 and 2006.
In these days collectors went for every coin and got kind of disappointed when they noticed that they couldn't keep up anymore with every coin.
Individuals were starting their own website promoting their coins to make money, and things became commercial... to the dislike of those who wanted to keep trading and get everything out there just by doing so.
Coins started to be signature items for cachers or for states/countries or for events, mostly plain layouts. To make them more wanted people started to develop the art of coin design and functionality: shaped forms, first glow in the dark, then translucent colors, twotone, cutouts, spinning, hinges, ...
And people bought them
People created LE coins that were ordered way more than the RE (some coins had even more LEs produced than REs because of that - simply because of lack of interest for the RE), announced numbers were increased or decreased...
There could be a lot more added... :-)
very interesting. i am interested in the first list, the old, mostly, non-trackables. i know those are in boxes in the back of a closet somewhere of a cacher who either just found some in caches, or the same for geocoiners who are no longer collecting.
so those are the ones i wonder if new coiners are interested in. but as someone said, if you don't know about them, can't hardly get excited. :-)
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"but one went unsold for $20 the other day on the auction place." That one I watched for a week and hoped I could get it... just before the end time was near, the owner pulled it from the site fearing she wouldn't get the $50 she was after.
seriously? next time bid the lowest you can to seal the bidding - i don't think a seller can pull something after the bidding has started. then watch to see what it does. if a seller wants for sure a certain price, then they should either start the bidding higher or put a reserve amount on it.
Even after a bid is placed, a seller can cancel a listing. All they have to do is fib a bit that it has been listed in error, was damaged or lost, or a few other 'select' excuses. All it costs them then is the listing fee which the e-place will not refund.
Buyers have a right to file a complaint, but if the seller sticks to their story ... who can prove any different ?? 'Ethics' is not the strong suit for some e-place sellers ...
oh, didn't know that.
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Alright, no one has logged the cache where this was dropped off yet. I'll give more information. The cache I dropped the coin off at is really close to the hotel where the NH state politician ran over the ducks causing quite a stir.
you may have to post it where more people can see it. over on the regular forums (if there is a way) or in the cache itself and let people try to get their first. here there may not be anyone that is close enough to grab the coin.
a politician ran over ducks? what won't those guys do...
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"but one went unsold for $20 the other day on the auction place." That one I watched for a week and hoped I could get it... just before the end time was near, the owner pulled it from the site fearing she wouldn't get the $50 she was after.
seriously? next time bid the lowest you can to seal the bidding - i don't think a seller can pull something after the bidding has started. then watch to see what it does. if a seller wants for sure a certain price, then they should either start the bidding higher or put a reserve amount on it.
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I've only been collecting for 1 1/2 years and I love the older coins. I don't know of many of these coins or the stories that go with them, unless someone puts one up for auction at the e-place and includes some info. As a newer collector, the older coins that have been made by coiners in the state I live in are a little easier to get some info about, but still not easier to find the coins. I think there is interest in the old coins, but they seem very, very hard to find... at least for me.
well, if they were easy to find that wouldn't be as much fun. :-) you just have to be careful and not spend a boatload of money on them. on eplace some of the prices are jacked up way beyond what the coin is worth
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SOoooo ... sure, there's an interest. How would you suggest we even begin to find out about them ... ??
i think by reading some of the old threads. like the beginning of this one. google even the history of geocoins.
there is one coiner i know that says the explosion of geocoins started with the fabulous 2006 compass rose. but one went unsold for $20 the other day on the auction place.
dgs1999 had this to say about the "explosion" of geocoins:
"I believe it [2006 compass rose] is the coin that started it all. It is the coin with the most fabulous front design for all time regardless that it was ...2006.
It combined beauty of design with the geocaching functionality of the compass rose. It slowly set the geocaching and geocoin collecting community on fire. If you can tell me of another coin in or before 2006 that really caught fire let me know. Yes, I know there was the 2005 CR but the design was boring
and the numbers released limited.
No, it was the 2006 with it's translucent colors and shiny silver background that really made this coin amazing.
I was talking to a geocacher / geocoin collector about the coins that really were the key coins and that set the
fire under geocoin collecting. I believe they were these three coins >
1. Compass Rose 2006
2. Tranquility coins in all their varieties
3. The first ...Earth Turtle .... the first coin by tsunrisebey"
the old coins were made by folks to leave in caches as special pieces of swag, or just to say they were there. mountain bike was the first one made by an individual i think. others soon followed by they were still basically sig items. like the captain prozac, the geonap, dhobby1 and goblindust.
those used to bring huge prices at auction but i bought a geonap the other day for $10. they aren't so desirable any longer.
i was just thinking aloud after reading some of people's most wanted coins and what was rare back in the day
lara
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so no thoughts on the old coins?
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Yeah that's the list. The only thing I'd add is "Ver 1" after GeoNap. I hear from a reliable source that the artwork is nearly completed for Ver 2.
i've been talking with mrs. geonap and she said "He only made the one set. I only have one of his coins in my possession & it too looks like it is yellowing a bit."
mr. geonap died in 2011. :-(
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So this is the list????
Moun10Bike Ver 1
Moun10Bike Ver 2
IndyDiver
Team Fisur
Waypoint15
Square T
Wandering Dragon
Goblindust
Capt Prozac
Blazerfan
Geonap
2Dolphins
Habercacher
Danman
DHobby Ver 1
OKIC
bumping this old, OLD thread up. i was wondering how many of these coins are still considered desirable. especially to new coiners. i bought a geonap on ebay for like $10. i already had one but thought "what the heck."
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no info yet? ... i was sure someone like moop along or atlanta gal would know. they know everything!
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