wigoweb

My reference was to the attacks, claims and counterclaims. The comments were not addressing the "lameness" of paper coins, but rather the approach of a particular cacher to those paper coins.

Seems this thread has gone off topic.

We recently placed a series of four caches with a Jersey Devil theme. We happen to have one of the very nice Jersey Devil coins put out by Avroair and the NJGeocachers group. We wanted to place the coin in the final cache for others to discover. Since we have recently lost one of our personal coins that was on a mission started in Key West, we decided to place a replica coin. We photographed front and back and then affixed the photos to a wooden coin and placed it in a coin envelope. At first glance it appears to be a coin, not just a laminated photo. Actually, no lamination was used. Now, anyone we finds the cache will see a realistic replica of a related coin. JD04 - Hunt for the Jersey Devil - Rt. 666 The cache description clearly states that we have placed a replica to be discovered. The caches haven't been out long, and so far, no one has "discovered" the coin even though several cachers have found the cache. We'll have to wait a while to learn how other cachers react to the opportunity to discover the coin.

They are on the large side. Geo-gadgets might be a good term.

Link to page about the Nocturnal coin Hope this helps. Has some history and several photos.

Like most geocoin collectors, I am well aware of the Compass Rose coins, but I hadn't seen the Nocturnal coin from the navigation series. Today the South Jersey Geocachers hosted an event where about 70 folks showed up to do a three hour float in tubes on the Winding River. Many caches had been placed for all of us to find. As an extra, the event's organizer, hushovd, provided an unactivated coin, Nocturnal, for the first cacher to sign in for the event. I wasn't that first cacher, but I was second, and the winner offered to swap me the coin he won for one of our personal coins. We agreed and now have activated this very nice coin with a mission to attend many other events and be discovered there. We hope to use the coin sometime soon for its intended purpose, telling time after dark. The ingenuity and cleverness of people who lived seven and eight centuries ago is humbling. We think we are accomplished because we learn to operate a GPSr that comes with an illustrated manual. How did the inventor of this tool ever determine how to use a couple of stars and a few pieces of wood to tell time in the dark? Coins are a great hobby and some of the additional lessons that come from owning a particular coin make it an even better hobby for us.

My coins arrived this week. Really fast service and a very nice coin.

Sent the emails, but expect others have beaten me to the prize. Lots of memories of the island. One of our sons was born there.

No, I don't want to auction my set of KayakerinME coins, but I did see a set for auction tonight. I just don't think that they should be sold when the original trade was so clear about not selling them.

Wish I knew the answer so that I could reveal it. We do cache with our young granddaughters, ages 5 and 8. We also take them to the occasional matinee at the local iMax. We don't think that their world or ours should be overloaded with unsavory images, logos, or slogans. What do we do about the bumper stickers on the cars in the parking lots? Have any of you encountered the trailer hitches with a bull's testicles? What about those decals and images of cartoon characters taking a leak on some rival brand of truck or on some terrorist enemy? There should be some standards for what is acceptable on a coin design. Those standards should be clearly and concisely stated where all of us have access to them before we design a coin and submit it for approval. What about some of the cache names and cacher names that turn up from time to time? Does anyone at Groundspeak have a list of criteria for what might be acceptable or not acceptable as a cache name? Some of the cache names I have seen pop up in my pocket queries are not ones that I would want to print out and hand to my granddaughters. Be assured that I am not especially narrow-minded. I enjoy much art, a lot of literature, and thoroughly enjoy the Wife of Bath. Still, public displays need to use some common sense. Sometimes I want to stop an adult I see walking past me and ask him/her if he read his shirt before he put it on and went out in public where other people's children would be wondering why the shirt says that. Let's see the standards clearly stated and followed. For the most part, the Departments of Motor Vehicles in all 50 states seem to have figured it out. They do a pretty good job of screening all those vanity plates. If the DMV can figure it out, Signal should be able to come up with some guidelines, too. [if it's forbidden why post it? link removed by moderator] After reading that list, I'm glad someone is keeping some of the plates away from our view.

When this really nice set of five coins came out, we were just getting started with geocoins. After several friendly emails we struck a deal and swapped some coins for the set of five. In the bargain, we were given a second set to put out as travelers. We waited until we were on a trip and released the five coins in five different states. As far as we know, four of them are still traveling from cache to cache and one coin may have gone missing. We guess that once one receives a coin, or set of coins, they belong to the cacher who has possession. Even so, it seems that putting these coins up for auction given the original intent when they were first distributed is contrary to what the series producer intended. KayakerinME web site Anyone interested in this can look at the above link where you will see the request to have the coins returned rather than sold. I know this topic comes up every so often, and it is not nearly as "intriguing" as the thread about the first time coin, but still we wonder if there will ever be agreement about what constitutes "fair play" in our hobby. We have our own coin now which we drop in caches, use as FTF prizes, and trade with others. We decided not to sell the coin, but only to trade it. We were probably partially influenced by our experience with this set of coins and the cacher who produced the series. See pix of Wigoweb's Personal Geocoin If you check out our coin at the above link, and you would like to trade your personal coin for it, please contact us through our profile.

This search turned up the coin on the first try: geocoin 007bigD

Some time back we released all four of the puzzle coins, each one in a different cache. They are all still traveling around the US. Since I posted here earlier this evening, I received notice that one of the coins had just been placed in a cache in Minnesota. Puzzle Coin, one of four If you look, you will see this entry for last March: 3/30/2008 Foley05 retrieved it from Mule (Muhl) Park Pennsylvania [visit log] 4 for 4 now on the puzzle coins from wigoweb. Just wish I had them all at the same time... will move along soon... maybe much further south as I'm heading to Hilton Head Island this next week... Foley05 made an effort to have all four of the coins at one time so that he could assemble the puzzle. After a while, he decided that he had held the first three for a long time and released them. Of course, then he found the fourth puzzle piece. This kind of a response from other cachers makes putting out coins a lot of fun.

Very nice coin. We have our own personal coin with a cachehound theme. Wigoweb's Personal #1 We aren't selling any coins, but we do like to trade for other personal coins with a dog theme. Take a look at our coin using the link above, and let us know if you would like to trade. There are two images on our coin page; be sure to look at both of them. We also occasionally put out these coins at FTF prizes in our caches. Good luck with your new coin.

1. Participating - Yes 2. Received Name - Yes, but not in time to get package sent for birthday 3. Mission Sent - Putting together now- Editing to say Mission Sent - Yes 4. Received very nice note today from recipient. Hope everyone else is successful with their missions, too.

We dropped one of our personal coins in the Southernmost US Cache in Key West last winter with a mission to return to one of our caches in south Jersey so that we could take it to the Easternmost Cache in Maine this August. We followed its progress for a while, but it is now among the missing. The next person to find the last cache where it was dropped has 1 find. He or she probably picked it up and had no idea it was a traveller. We emailed the cacher through the geocaching web site, but received no response. The cache owner went out and checked for us, the coin is definitely not there. So, when we go to Maine, we will drop off another one with a similar goal. If it gets to south Jersey, we will take it back to Key West next winter. Some of our coins are happily traveling around the US, Canada, New Zealand and various nations in Europe. Only a few have disappeared. Don't give up. Lots of coins do move.

1. Participating - Yes 2. Received Name - Yes, but not in time to get package sent for birthday 3. Mission Sent - Putting together now- Editing to say Mission Sent - Yes

We trade our personal coin with our Norwegian CacheHound on one side: wigoweb coin We especially like to trade for other cachehound coins, but will consider any personal coin we don't already have in our collection.

We dropped a personal coin in Key West this past February. That's 1097.5 miles from our home coordinates. Probably a little further by highway. Southernmost We're hoping that it reaches one of the caches we placed in south Jersey sometime this spring or early summer so that we can get it back and take it to Maine.

We have a Matryoshka themed puzzle cache in south Jersey. Matryoshka Rx These coins would be a nice memento to add to our collection. Please let us know when they are ready. Thanks very much. PS My grandmother wore a babushka which was a head scarf, not a doll.

Double post, sorry.

Got my order in yesterday just before the sales closed. We lived in Okinawa near Gate 1 for Kadena for two and a half years.

We placed two new caches today. One was a bison tube, so it didn't get a coin. The ammo can cache is filled with toys and has a new, unactivated coin as the FTF prize. We usually put them out as FTF prizes. We plan to place another cache tomorrow morning that will also have an unactivated coin for someone to find and keep. We have activated some of the coins in our collection and sent them out to visit. We have one moving around Australia and New Zealand. Others are enjoying Europe. Last February we dropped one of our personal coins in the Southernmost Cache in the US in Key West with a mission to return to one of our caches near our home. We hope to collect it from the cache and take it to Maine with us in August. We'll probably release it again in Maine. We've seen some of our prize coins get activated and start traveling, but others have apparently been kept as part of the finder's collection. Either way is fine with us. We put them out for other cachers to enjoy and do with as they please.

We attend a few events each year. We take our own personal coins which we trade for other personal coins. We may have ten or so other coins for trades, too. Usually those are event coins or extras we have from other trades. Meeting the folks we see in the cache logs is always a good thing, too.