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Most sales on e-bay are not scammers. They are people who bought from the original distributor and are living in a free market society. If you read the advertisement, they will say whether they are unactivated or whether you need to adopt them. I would estimate that almost 99% of all geocoins sold on E-bay are unactivated so therefore you can rest assured that you are not buying hot goods. Having purchased dozens of geocoins myself, I can say that I have NEVER been unhappy with a purchase off of e-bay.

I use a geocoin of mine to track mileage but I drop it in and take it back out. Since it is my good luck coin given to me, I usually always have it with me when I cache. I think a virtual coin to some may be when the id # of the coin is put in the cache but not the coin itself. I suppose people could also "virtually" drop it into another cache on GC.com only. I know some people don't want to send out their coins so they just allow people to discover them when they find their cache. If somebody wants grab it and drop it somewhere else, the owner can delete the entry and place it back to his cache.

And we are so glad that people are so quick to assume that it was stolen....because in America, we don't need any proof to acuse somebody. After all, our president has taught us so well.....

There are two types of orientation. One is "Medal" orientation where you flip the medal horizontally and both sides have the same "up" direction. The other orientation is called a "coin" orientation and allows you to flip the coin vertically and still view both sides properly (similar to all american monetary coins). What you describe appears to be the Coin orientation and since these are geocoins, I would think that it was intentionally minted this way. I would think that the orientation of the coins can be determined and specified by the coin designer but would most likely default to the Coin orientation. However, even in the US mint, there are orientation errors, whether intentional or not. Most orientation errors are only a matter of 20 degrees off (caused by a jumping of the coin after the press lifts), although there are examples as much as 180 degrees. Now days the US mint process is so exacting that orientation errors are intentional as were done on some of the early state quarters. You are correct in assuming that these are valuable but I don't think that this is the case with geocoins.

I think this is a great idea and would definitely get a set of 4. One thing you might want to consider is instead of having four rectangular shaped sections, make the two edges in contact with the adjacent coin have unique interconnecting edges that help arrange it in the proper manner.

I think that a more appropriate method of referring to the two different parties is "the designer" also known as the graphic house and the "mint" is the mfgr where the coins are acutally pressed. A good comparison in the US is our currency: the US Treasury department is the designer and the US Treasury mint is the minter. Either way, the majority of all geocoins are made by one minter in China (they even have their own Geocoin). While there are others around, China has established themselves as one of the largest manufacturers of novelty coins in the world. All coins for the clubs in New Orleans that are stamped each year for Mardi Gras are made in China as well as beads and all kinds of other stuff. As for graphic houses for geocoins, I think that two of the tops are "Coins and Pins" and "Oakcoins". I personally don't know who they use as their minters but I am sure you may be able to contact them to answer your questions.

Insane. This is a case of very, very poor ethical grounding. In fact, it is poor ethics combined with greed and represents the flawed reality of those that view material possessions above social norms. This person clearly doesn't "get" it. BTW - you are NOT a Hoarder if you lose or misplace a Travel Bug (IMO) -- accidents happen. I own many tackables and have had occasions where someone has indicated a lost item. Taking responsibility and contacting the owner is courteous and mature - no need to feel bad about that. Just for clarification. The quote that you quoted from me was taken from the person who started this thread. I purchase my own coins, TB's and make sure to pass along all TB"s or coins that I pick up.

Quote "I have several Jeep Tb's in my collection. Rather than just outright keeping them out of circulation, is there any way that I could adopt them? For example, I have a WJTB in my own Jeep and let people log it when they see me at a cache or event. I'm sure I'm asking for flak from people who will say that I'm a hoarder, but I am really just looking to see if it can be done" It seems rather hypocritical to make statements like this one and then turn around and start a threads complaining about people who are holding TB's. In my opinion, a TB is a TB. If it is not yours and you don't intend to move it along, then either leave it in a cache or leave it alone. People have taken time and money to set a TB on its way for whatever purpose. I have many caching partners who have complained about unscrupulous people stealing TB's (I won't call them geocachers). I understand when the owner gives specific permission to keep it. If one feels it appropriate to steal TB's and then consider it their right to keep them in "their collection" then one should reevaluate what the whole concept of Geocaching is intended to promote. If you want a collection, go out and buy a set of TB tags or geocoins with your own money instead of other peoples and create your own.

Gosh am I correct in reading your website that it is about $20 US to ship two coins...Or is that $20 US total for two coins. I would hope that people in this forum would not resort to those annoying e-bay tricks of overcharging shipping to make a few extra bucks off the purchaser. Nice coin though.

Hey!!!! now I got 9 "error" coins....WOOO HOOO!!!!

The only difference is that some people have expressed a desire for me to leave the coins in the event cache for a period of time so that when they discover it, their log tells them where (which event) they discovered it at. Otherwise, it will say that it is in the hands of the owner. I suppose one could argue that it is in the hands of the owner when viewed in a collection at an event.

Have you seen what they are trying to sell on E-bay these days? "They are anodized aluminum disks secured on nice quality poker chips." This is a quote out of the auction ad. They were asking 3.99 but hadn't received any bids.

They have removed the "From the highest peaks" and the lgeocoordinates of Mt. McKinley. Also, the elevation of Death Valley appears to have been removed or too small. Also, the ammo cans on the wagon train don't look like ammo cans and are not green The sign chould be contrasted a little better; perhaps with black lettering.... Also, I know that the bird, the flower and the bear are on the front as icons of California but I have to agree that these make the coin appear to busy. The main theme appears to be the geography of California so it would seem consistent to only show those features. Although the wagon train falls into this same issue, I think that it is really cool and really helps that face.

I guess one could say that it is no different than finding a single coin in a cache that you chose to "discover" and leave in the cache. You get the icon on your collectibles list and you get to see the coin itself. I don't think that people leaving a coin in a cache would stand and look at it more than a few seconds before putting it back anyway. There are many collectors who put their coins in a cache with a request to leave it. Now considering that an event is still listed as a cache. It simply has more than one geocoin and no choice but to leave it in the cache.

I recently posted in the forum area suggesting that Groundspeak/Geocaching.com consider the creation of a Geocoin Album Cache or Geocoin Album Travel Bug that allows us geocoin collectors to take our collections to event caches without having to go through all the work of dropping and grabbing. The link is below for those who would like read more and to provide comment or support for this. geocaching forum post

I have recently seen a large increase in geocoin collectors. Since Groundspeak/Geocaching.com are now allowing the "option" of discoverying geocoins, Myself, along with others have started to bring all or portions of their coin collections to geocaching events. It is easy to "drop" the coins into the event cache but must individually grab each by typing in each individual confirmation code. Not only that, but people who view the cache event description and don't realize this is a collection tend to come to the events in hopes of "grabbing" one or more specific coins and are dissapointed when they realize that most of the coins are not going to be available. I also like to track mileage to all the events on my collection that I attend independant of the rest of the caches I find that I use a single coin to track mileage for. I have seen where other collectors will "store" their collection in an archived cache or an unactivated cache so as to keep their personal pages relatively empty. I would like to suggest the creation of a "Coin Album" Travel Bug or a Coin album cache that would be able to travel. This would allow an Aabum bug or cache to be dropped into an event cache and removed easily. In addition, it would be clear that the coins are part of a collection that will be present for people to "discover" them who are interested. My collection has grown from a modest 25 coins to almost 100 and will continue to grow. I can't imagine the hours it will take to grab all of these coins. By dropping them in the event cache, the logs of the geocoin will be clear where the cachers veiwed your collection. The only option that I can think of to dropping and grabbing each one without an Album is to simply provide the TB ID# so that it can be discovered. As such, the logs of the geocoins will not reflect where they were viewed. Additionally, if a person wanted to discover the geocoins in the collection, discoverying an album bug or cahce could be set up to discover all the coins inside the album simply by discoverying the album itself. I would love to hear any ideas or options from other geocoin collectors out there.

Geocaching.com currently shows this travel bug (geocoin) at the "Bamforth Trail Cache". If this is the cache that you grabbed it from, simply click on the gecoin in the inventory and then chose the "found it" option. It will give you a pulldown menu that will allow you to grab it. If you found this in another cache, you will want to grab it out of the Bamforth and you can chose to drop and grab it from the cache that you found it in if you are interested in keeping the travel mileage accurate. The small numbers are the numbers that will have to be typed in to confirm that you actually have the coin. It will not have a dog tag on it. when typing in the confirmation letters/numbers (there will be a total of 6), reallize that all "0's" will be zeros and not oh's.

You have to have received an "invitation to adopt" from the current owner of the coin. ONce you do, the link will taske you to the appropriate www.geocaching.com page.

The 3D art is pretty spectacular. If you want to see a real picture, you can probably locate it by searching on e-bay with the keyword of geocoins.

Does anyone know the activation site for the DuncanClan Deception Pass Geocoin?

Does anyone know were to activate the Luxemburg gecoin?