Any Reason To Activate Coins That Won't Be

[+Chiro75]

I own a whopping two Geocoins, both 2005 MIGO editions, new in their fancy plastic holders. These are not the new ones that were just refurbed or whatever. Both coins have a coin # and Passkey on the plastic holders. I assume this means they are trackable? Would it make any sense to activate these just for the sake of activating them, even though I will either keep them or trade them for other coins and will not be placing them in a cache?

[Not So Lost Puppies]

If they are trackable on this site, then activating them will get you an icon in your owned column of the 'trackables' tab on your profile. If you plan on a future trade, they would have more trade value if they are NOT activated. But ownership can be transfered and many collectors will accept that.

[+carleenp]

I don't activate my keeper coins. Not because I worry about value, but because I like to use my stats to keep track of only coins I move through caches. So out side of a couple of exceptions, I have only activated coins I plan to put in caches and only logged coins that I moved to another cache. I have considered activating the keepers since I could still generally keep track/remember things, but I also am too lazy to go through my collection and do that!

Edited January 19, 2006 by carleenp

[+Hula Bum]

I agree with Carleen, I like to see coins that are moving on the stats, not just what you (or I) have sitting in a binder.

[+Renegade Knight]

I don't activate any coin that I'm keeping, trading, or leaving in a cache. If I wanted it to travel like a travel bug then I'd activate it. But I'm happy with my one travel bug I won at an event a million years ago.

[+Lemon Fresh Dog]

I activate. Basically, my coin binder got silly big. So I threw all my non-trackable coins into giant jars (they are some sort of plastic tobacco can that my sister has a friend save for me).

 

All my trackables are activated, placed in their own binder and then listed on a sheet. I take this binder to events (and sometimes some of the others) and folks can look at the coins, take a sheet and log to their hearts content.

 

My "keepers" are intended to be seen by other cachers, so this is one way they travel -- any additional copies get activated and cached traditionally -- except I give them a little scratched "X" to make them less attractive as a steal.

[+Dreamin'Eagle]

I too activate one of every trackable coin that I get and share them with locals at events. I have found that a binder full of coins is a great ice breaker/conversation starter. Since I am not the most outspoken socialable person (read shy) it works out good.