Lots Of Cash In A Cache.

[+Selina_and_Eric]

Has anyone found a lot of money in a cache??? There is a lot of money in this cache and was wondering if anyone has some links to others like this one.

 

Waypoint: GCHREH

 

There is a lot of other things in the cache like a camera, a model car, some postcards etc...

 

I meant ot post this in the "The Hunt / The Unusual" area can some one move it for me

Edited November 24, 2005 by Selina_and_Eric

[Keystone]

Moving thread as requested.

 

<---- Will work for cash.... or cache.

[+Jamie Z]

At an event I attended, one of the participants told a story of when she was looking for a cache, she found a plastic sack under some things by a log. So thinking it was the cache, she picked it up and brought it to her car. When she opened it, she found several hundred dollars and a small collection of drugs.

 

In her story she said she brought the things to the police immediately, but I often wonder...

 

Jamie

[+Goldfinch593]

 

Will work for cash.... or cache. 

 

I found a $5.00 bill in a cache once. I still have it in my cache bag, and will put it in another cache, someday, so someone else can be as surprised as I was when I found it!

[+BlueDeuce]

I been with two different people on two different occasions who left a 20 dollar bill for a trade item.

[+Selina_and_Eric]

I find it hard to believe that

 

COLD HARD CACHE

 

is the only cache that contains more then $20 in it ... was there at one time "one time finds" on geocaching.com where people hid like $100 bills and such??

 

The COLD HARD CACHE has a big stack of $1 bills in it..

 

[+V-I-cacher]

actually, that's what got me into geocaching...

...when I started reading the cache-pages, it seemed as if there is

hundreds and hundreds of dollars out there...

...turns out that you have to be FTF or STF or TTF, and even so it is only

20 buxx... most *real* caching days I spend more then that in gas alone!!!

 

geocaching ain't gonna make you rich

[+BilboB]

I remember a 5/5 cache along the California/Nevada border that had a $1000 as a FTF! It was legit. I read the logs and someone actually bagged 1000 clams just for having fun. Some people have all the luck.

[+Hard Oiler]

You're probably thinking of these two caches. In fact they weren't even caches - they were both virtuals. Wonder who will be the first to give a $1000 FTF prize for a waymark

 

OPERATION HIGH DESERT ADVENTURE

 

OPERATION HIGH DESERT ADVENTURE NO.2

[+ironman114]

I found 1,000 Lira in a cache once.

 

I still have it. I might place it in another cache someday.

[SAWKS]

"GASP!" $$$$$$ ! I'll cache for cash.

[+the hermit crabs]

NFA's Rupert's Cash Cache had a $100 prize for the first finder.

[+Vinny & Sue Team]

I was out in the Jackson, WY area back in August, and, reading thru the logs at the time for some local ID and WY caches in that area along the ID/WY border, I noticed that a local Idaho cacher had recently placed $100 bills as trade items in at least two local caches. We never bothered going after those caches, as we were busy placing some extreme caches, but we did stumble upon a cache along the ID/WY border (near Teton Pass) in which someone had left three gift certificates for restaurant in nearby Victor, Idaho which is locally rather famous. We took nothing, leaving the gift certificates for someone who would really enjoy them, and left a $1 bill as a trade item. Which reminds me, we have never left large sums of money in a cache (although we once left 6 custom imprinted T-shirts at the Blood & Guts in Virginia cache), but we often leave a $1 bill or some foreign currency (Indian rupees or Nicaraguan bills) in caches as trade items.

[+Selina_and_Eric]

Any onther caches people know about with money in it or valuables ?

 

There should be an icon for this in the caches.. just like the travel big and geocoin caches have. Say any geocache with lots of cash or items of more then $50 value .. Like a dollar sign next to it or something.. even if the treasure is for FTF

 

any onther caches?? anyone??

Edited November 27, 2005 by Selina_and_Eric

[+Dew Crew]

Any onther caches people know about with money in it or valuables ?

 

There should be an icon for this in the caches.. just like the travel big and geocoin caches have. Say any geocache with lots of cash or items of more then $50 value .. Like a dollar sign next to it or something.. even if the treasure is for FTF

 

any onther caches?? anyone??

That would be pretty cool! Actually I first heard about geocaching on the television program, can't remember what it was on... but anyway, it was talking about some caches containing money. It'd be great to find some in a cache, but the feeling of finally finding the cache after lots of time spent looking is the best part!

[+Vinny & Sue Team]

Any onther caches people know about with money in it or valuables ? 

 

There should be an icon for this in the caches.. just like the travel big and geocoin caches have. Say any geocache with lots of cash or items of more then $50 value .. Like a dollar sign next to it or something.. even if the treasure is for FTF

 

any onther caches?? anyone??

That would be pretty cool! Actually I first heard about geocaching on the television program, can't remember what it was on... but anyway, it was talking about some caches containing money. It'd be great to find some in a cache, but the feeling of finally finding the cache after lots of time spent looking is the best part!

My opinion is much the same. I do not cache for reasons of monetary gain, although the presence of oney can make a cache more fun to watch (add to watchlist, etc.) We have never gone after a cache because it contained money, and, in fact, I have passed up seeking nearby caches which I knew contained significant sums of money in order to do things closer to my heart, such as placing an extreme geocache in backcountry. So, it adds one more fun element, but no more, for me. It is fun watching the scramble to find any kind of significant prize, not just money!

[+Selina_and_Eric]

actually, that's what got me into geocaching...

...when I started reading the cache-pages, it seemed as if there is

hundreds and hundreds of dollars out there...

...turns out that you have to be FTF or STF or TTF, and even so it is only

20 buxx... most *real* caching days I spend more then that in gas alone!!!

 

geocaching ain't gonna make you rich

What does TTF stand for?? can not find that HERE

[+Rick618]

FTF = First to find

STF = Second

TTF = Third

[ImpalaBob]

We got a $10 FTF prize and a scratch-off lottery ticket that turned out to be worth $20. ImpalaBob

[hllyhobbie]

Hello hunters!

 

I am a producer for CBS News and I would like to interview someone who will be looking for a cache in NYC. I would also like to talk to someone who has sponsored a cache in the city. Are there any recommendations or volunteers?

 

Thanks for your help.

 

Megan

 

Feel free to contact me: mwarren@cbs.com

Edited November 28, 2005 by hllyhobbie

[+Selina_and_Eric]

I changed my mind about having the icon for caches with cash or other big items in it.. I have choosen the route to make the caches that I set that have a lot of money or big items in them to be MOC.. I did a search on other MOC caches in my area and it seems that they seem to lean more to the quality caches I was looking for.. not all MOC caches have anything great in them but the people looking for them have more love for geocaching and tend to be nicer to the cache then non-members seem to be..

[salmoned]

Thanks for the exclusion, S&E! In my area, non-members create and maintain at least as many of the 'better' caches as members. In fact, I have a 5/5 out there now with a FTF prize of pure gold bullion (currently amounting to 1/10 oz.). I really appreciate when someone proves a cache of mine CAN be found.

[+srt4guy]

i dont know how to post a link but if you go to zip 01430. i have a coin swap cache there.

if i find quarters and such i save them up and use the cash to buy good trinkets as trade items.

tim

[+roboknight]

Well, I FTF'd a cache that contained several dollar bills and a $10 lottery ticket. I didn't take the bills or the ticket, and opted for a plastic stegosaurus... Wasn't sure why there was money in the cache (other than "Where's George" dollars I've found before). Seemed risky. But now that I read this thread it clears things up.

[+ZackJones]

We have a cache here in Georgia that's an ammo can that's pretty much filled with pennies. It's quite heavy! I have seen change and small bills in caches before and have even left a buck or two if there was something that I really wanted and didn't have anything I felt was an even trade item.

[+NotThePainter]

On one of my hides I left $0.02 as a FTF prize.

 

Of course, it was a 2 cent coin minted in 1865! (1865 was important to the cache.)

 

Paul

[+nutlady]

On one of my hides I left $0.02 as a FTF prize.

 

Of course, it was a 2 cent coin minted in 1865! (1865 was important to the cache.)

 

Paul

I placed a high swag cache. Everything in it is worth between $5-$10. No one will find it by accident, and there is in all at least $100 worth of swag in the box. Though I posted to trade even or up......first cacher took a $8 rappalla fishing lure and left a sea shell. Sigh.

[+Vinny & Sue Team]

On one of my hides I left $0.02 as a FTF prize.

 

Of course, it was a 2 cent coin minted in 1865! (1865 was important to the cache.)

 

Paul

I placed a high swag cache. Everything in it is worth between $5-$10. No one will find it by accident, and there is in all at least $100 worth of swag in the box. Though I posted to trade even or up......first cacher took a $8 rappalla fishing lure and left a sea shell. Sigh.

 

Well, at least a sea shell is not as bad as a broken and dirty McToy! Some folks just do not get it, I guess!

[+Trezurs*-R-*Fun]

Sheesh, I just placed a cache with $150.00.

 

 

GCTM33

 

Of course it was Mexican Peso, mid 80 100 and 50 peso coin.....LOL

[+Happy Humphrey]

GCQY8T began with a 1oz solid gold Krugerrand as the prize!

 

HH

[+MadMoravian]

I placed my first puzzle cache with a FTF prize of an 1897 Carson City Silver Dollar. I've got a nice roll of them to distribute as I create caches I think worth putting one in.

[+Tharagleb]

NFA's Rupert's Cash Cache had a $100 prize for the first finder.

 

Linky to log

 

[+trailpuppy]

There's $20.00 in Nemesis (GCRZBD) and FTF rights are still open!

[+Relic Hounds]

I got seven dollars once and i was the fifteenth finder

[gis_boy]

Not as dramatic, but perhaps fun for the kids, a couple weeks ago, I tore a $5 in half, and put both into two caches a couple miles apart. Put a note in with each in a ziploc saying the other half was nearby.

[+Tsmola]

On one of my hides I left $0.02 as a FTF prize.

 

Of course, it was a 2 cent coin minted in 1865! (1865 was important to the cache.)

 

Paul

 

I found that post kind of freaky, because just a week or so ago I found an 1865 two cent piece with my metal detector in a park filled with caches. It was actually around 800 ft or so from one of them.

 

[Discovery Scout]

Man I am going to have to get out more. I want to find some money! The most I have seen is 3 dollars but I didn't have anything to trade so I left it. I usually leave a dollar in my caches. I left a DVD worth almost 20 in one of my own caches.

[+Vinny & Sue Team]

Our newest Psycho Urban Cache, called Psycho Urban Cache #11 - Strange Island Getaway (GCVJ29; it is premium-member-only), and which is a multi located on two islands in a rough river, was published today (on 4/23/2006) and it contained a ten dollar bill and an unregistered Signal the Frog 2006 Geocoin as the FTF and 2TF prizes. Best of all, although the cache was found today by the first three finders, they chose to take only the Signal the Frog geocoin and they deliberately and kindly left the $10 bill for a later finder, so it is still waiting there for someone else! By the way, these three early finders really paid their dues today in finding this two-stage cache -- the river was almost two feet over the danger level set by NOAA and MD DNR for use of the river by humans in watercraft, and they were soaking tire, wet, muddy and quite bloody by the time they finished the challenge! (Better yet, Sue and I were there and we got to watch all the fun!)

[+Sparrowhawk]

"On one of my hides I left $0.02 as a FTF prize.

Of course, it was a 2 cent coin minted in 1865! (1865 was important to the cache.)"

 

HOLY BLEEP!

 

I just googled for "1865 2 cent piece" and found an Ebay auction for that coin that ended at $4,450.02!

Edited April 27, 2006 by Sparrowhawk

[+Team JSAM]

We have a local cacher that likes to add cash to the cache in this one there was a 100 dollar bill for the FTF and I got a 5 dollar bill for this one also my first FTF

Edited April 27, 2006 by Team Jsam

[bigwes]

I saw on the news a while back of some millionare that hid caches all over the place with little jewel "bugs" worth $25000 a piece...some kid found one inside a tree at a park and was on the news

[CacheNCarryMA]

I saw on the news a while back of some millionare that hid caches all over the place with little jewel "bugs" worth $25000 a piece...some kid found one inside a tree at a park and was on the news

 

I think that was a contest associated with a book including hidden clues.

 

That's how urban legends get started.

[+NotThePainter]

"On one of my hides I left $0.02 as a FTF prize.

Of course, it was a 2 cent coin minted in 1865! (1865 was important to the cache.)"

 

HOLY BLEEP!

 

I just googled for "1865 2 cent piece" and found an Ebay auction for that coin that ended at $4,450.02!

 

Yes, that must have been my coin! :- )

 

Mine went for about $15-$20 plus about $5 shipping if I recall...

 

Paul

[+The Leprechauns]

Random Acts of Kindness are fun! Well, they are not completely random... just a little something I like to do on milestone finds. I suppose I shouldn't advertise this, or people will start following me around when my find count ends in 99.

[+Criminal]

How about this haul!