CachingCoins
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Thank you! I'm finally getting around to looking through my packages. What a cute little surprise! Thank you for thinking of me. It made me feel special. I know this has been a tough year for some. Today starts a new year & I wish the best for all of you! I need to spend more time here. Y'all always make me smile! THANKS!!
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These are awesome Jim & Paula! I hope we will see a 2008 version next year! As soon as I got mine, I put it on the tree. I hung it in front of one of the lights. It makes a very striking addition! Great Job!
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY!! These sure did brighten my day. I hope they brightened your day too!
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My antique copper "CachingCoins" is for trade only. I sold the satin silver in pairs, with a few singles traded, but the AC is trade only. Thanks for the thread!
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CreepyCrawlyCachers Mystery Geocoin
CachingCoins replied to CreepyCrawlyCachers's topic in Trackables
WOW!! Thanks!! I have a new postman & she has been asking about Geocaching & coins. I was standing there talking to her when I noticed this big white envelope. I wasn't expecting anything, but it felt like a coin. The 1st geocoin she got to see was this one! What a great coin to show her as her 1st coin. I have a feeling she may be getting a GPS for Christmas!! -
Geocaching bag stolen, geocoins gone
CachingCoins replied to SUp3rFM & Cruella's topic in Trackables
Oh my gosh!! I just saw this post. Hugo & Ana just sent me an e-mail. I am shocked, amazed, speechless, overwhelmed, etc, etc (I had all the appropriate emoticons posted, but it wouldn't let me keep them all.) What an incredible caching community we have! We are so lucky & so blessed!! Thanks you guys! CachingCoins aka Sandy -
Look at: The Cachebug Sergio does a great job of keeping up with the new coins coming out. In fact when I decide I'm going to stop buying, I have to stay away from his page & ebay.
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I guess great minds think alike! Great questions HB! Not really the answers I expected. 1) Yes & loving it more & more. 2) I want to. I'm am trying to. I am determined that I am going to stop buying so much! 3) As I think everyone else has said, "It's about the coin."
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Thanks for the update & good luck with the sale!
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Nice coin! My brother-in-law is greek. I have some traveling coins that have made a visit there. How would I qualify to get one!
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WOW!!! That is just totally awesome!! How did you pull it off? What coin gets the honor? I hope you will be able to get a picture! Way to go!
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I only activate coins after I have drilled holes in them. I like to trade & buy unactivated. But, as RK said, activated is better than nothing.
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Just now getting a chance to really look at these coins. Very Nice! They are heftier than I expected. I LOVE the little fishes I also got! But, then I everything dorkfish!
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I've been trying to get the codes. It has been very time consuming. I do it because I sure do appreciate it when I get a coin with the code. I also know of at least one coin company that has gone out of business. I still wonder if it is worth my time. Most of the coins have the tags from the mint company, so you know where to get the code. I may change my method & just retrieve the codes for those coins that don't have tags. It will be interesting to see what others have to say about this subject.
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Those look beautiful! I can't wait to see what they look like in person! Reservation placed!
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What do you guys use to hold your tags on & where do you get them? My next batch, I'm going to use something more substantial than those little chains that come with the tags. They are too easy.
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!!!!Oh YUCK!!! That made me squeemish just looking at the pictures!! I don't think I could get close enough to it to squish it!
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I think as a collector you evolve. When I started I didn't know other coin people, I didn't know the coins, I didn't know their meaning. For me, when I started buying it was trackable with Icon only! Now, the coins mean more to me! They have become more than just a shiny, cute, pretty object. I will buy a non-trackable (never, never would have done that at first! ) or I'll buy for other reasons, like a charity or because I know who it is etc. I'm just getting into trading. Now it is more fun than ever & more addictive then ever! I can't wait for the next coinfest!!
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Is there any chance that we could get a donation receipt for taxes. Tsunrisebey did this with her turtle auction for Big Brothers Big Sisters & I think the total bid was much higher because of that. I know I bid higher than I normally would & I think others did too!
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When selling/buying a coin, what should be disclosed?
CachingCoins replied to Flying Spaghetti Monster's topic in Trackables
What coin buyers want to see: - Picture of art and then coin when coin samples are available -Size and weight of coin - Metal (finish) - Enamel (hard, soft, translucent, glitter) - Price and shipping costs (worldwide or local only) - Expected Delivery date -Total quantity made broken down by metal and enamels if there is a mixture, including AE, XLE, LE, SE etc and what these abbreviations means to the seller -re-mint possible, no re-mint. If reminted in what metals and enamels and information as above -purchase only or some for trade -how to purchase and date of sale -
I had more coins made in a different metal. I guess we did say up front how many coins were minted & in the original sale. (Even if it was a bit different.) I had more made in the new metal purely because it was much easier than going through the whole process again. I needed something to give as gifts & to trade, if people were willing to get the same design in a new metal. I do make it clear that it is the same design, just a different metal. If I was buying #20/300 of a "Disney" print that was signed & they came out with another 300 EXACTLY the same, I would think that was wrong. But, they could come out with the exact same picture only signed "Walt Disney" & the art world would be OK with that. A lot of the great artists have original hand sigs, hand stamp, machine stamp, original sigs & #'d all on the same "picture". They do it so many different ways it can really be hard to tell the true value of the piece. As far as how I feel about coins. I believe that if you say this is a LE of 100, it is for that design & that metal. If you change ANYTHING at all about the coin it is a new version of the coin with it's own value. And that's my humble opinion.
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When selling/buying a coin, what should be disclosed?
CachingCoins replied to Flying Spaghetti Monster's topic in Trackables
I'd really like to see the quantity of coins that are going to be made. - Size and weight of coin-I think it is important that it be specified up front, but it doesn't determine if I buy. - Metal (finish)-I think it is important that it be specified up front, but it doesn't determine if I buy. - Enamel (hard or soft)-I think it is important that it be specified up front, but it doesn't determine if I buy. - Price-I think it is important that it be specified up front, but it doesn't determine if I buy. - Delivery date Now this does matter to me. I don't like paying for coins way in advance. Now, I know things happen with minting etc, that can't be helped. As a buyer what I like best is the reservation option. IMHO -
My lawn ornaments tend to stay in groups & are mobile.
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Great job MC!! I volunteer doing hippotherapy. And some of our kids have autism. I didn't know anything about it until then. It seems to be really showing up more & more. I hope & pray that is because the testing has improved! The research needs to done. They don't know what causes it & they don't know how to treat it. I will buy!
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I've got another question for you. What determines if a coin is a geocoin? The non-trackables that is.