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    Virginia Geocoins

    in Northeast

    Posted

    Here's some thoughts:

     

    --Unless you're going to make a cheaper coins (around $3), they aren't really going to travel much and people aren't going to but a lot of them to put in caches. So, paying for tracking is paying to see who's collection it's in. But people seem to like tracking anyway.

     

    --I think it's important to include at least locals in design suggestions and voting on the final design since it's not a personal coin.

     

    --For the Oregon coin I placed a cache where I had a table set-up near by for the first 3 hours it was active. People found the cache with a little commerative card they brought back to the table to get their coins. People that couldn't make the cache paid for shipping or had them delivered if they were local.

     

    --Take a look at pages that have a lot of pictures of geocoin designs. Some work better than others. If you're going with a simple pressed coin the design carries everything and needs to be very well done to look good. If you're adding colour, I think a little is a good accent, a lot can get too cartoony.

    G.o.n.e. Caching! Event Limited Coin

    in Trackables

    Posted

    Guess it depends what you want them for. There has been talk with other coins just limiting them to a certain number or certain people to make them more "rare". Instead of that, it can make them just impossible for people to get just one. If you want them just to commemorate the event and the people that actually went, I'd limit it just to that instead of a frenzy of people that order first.

    Kansas Geocoin Design?

    in Midwest

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    Nurse Dave,

     

    I did not think about not having to mint 1500 as the 1500 is the minimum for purchase of tracking numbers. This makes it more doable in my mind. I know of some states that have sold more than this is pre-orders but they have a many more cachers in the state.

     

    Keep the ideas coming! I kind of like the idea of Dorothy and Gang hunting for a geocache or opening up a geocache on one side and then a colored sunflower on the other side with Kansas the Sunflower State. Thanks for all the great ideas and information!

    Sure, but then you're going to have to pass-on the cost of those unused numbers to the coins you're going to make.

    Nurse To The Ape

    in Northwest

    Posted

    CENT5 and I are set to leave here at 9 am. I remain confused as to what time and precisely where we'll all meet up, but shall trust that the cinco centavo lad has been briefed on these high level details... :huh:

    10:30

    Coin Question

    in How do I...?

    Posted

    The coins if they aren't trackable are generally a really nice trade item. And some of the ones that arean't trackable on gc.com say you can keep them or move them on. The cards I've seen are a regional thing. Some places they are put in with the log book to sort of collect in the cache and some places they are just to swap like anything else. I'd just look around, if there are a bunch of cards in caches around you, I'd leave them. If not, swap em out if you want to.

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