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The Sweet Lake City Geocaching Night Event Coin is allmost open for sales.

 

The remainder of the Regular Edition event coins will be open for international sales starting Wednesday, February 1th at 21:00 Central Europe Time (GMT+1).

 

Pre-production design:

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De date on the coin will be: "11 March 2006".

The colors will be Dark Blue as background and Glow-In-The-Dark Blue for the details.

 

Size: 1.58", 3mm thick.

Metal: Antique Bronze

Trackable: Yes, as a personal coin (prefix PC) with it's own unique icon icon32.gif

Price: EUR 7.00 plus international shipping.

Shipping: Since there is some discussion on this forum about missing shipments from The Netherlands to the USA, we will ship only via International Priority Mail (Dutch TPG).

Payments: Only via PayPal. European buyers must buy via an IBAN bank account.

Number of coins made:

About 400 Regular Edition (Antique Bronze), 100 Limited Edition (Antique Silver), 20+ Special Edition (Antique Gold) and a few of some other metal <_<, only for trade.

The LE Silver will only be available for teams at the event itself.

20 SE Gold will be randomly mixed with the shipments as a bonus!

Edit: maximum 10 coins per team!

 

The coin will be minted before the end of Febrary (in fact, the design is at the minter as we speak, but since it is New Year in China, minting will not start before next week).

However, since this is an event coin, the coins will ship after the event on March 11.

 

Sales for this coin is only for the Regular Edition.

About 100 Regular Editions coins will be available for international purchasing.

When they are gone: they are gone!

 

At the time the sale open I will post the ordering site here.

Keep posted.

 

Please do not email me for pre-sales orders!

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Only International priority mail (TPG):

1-5 coins: € 5,00 (Inside Europe) € 7,50 (Outside Europe)

6-10 coins: € 7,50 (Inside Europe) € 12,50 (Outside Europe)

 

The shipping at cost! It is the amount invoiced to us by the Postoffice...

team_wolfje

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With only 100 coins available for international sales, is there going to be a limit to how many one person can get?

Yes, the number of coins per team has a maximum of 10.

This was also on the original sale and we will keep this limit the same.

Doc-Dean

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Only International priority mail (TPG):

1-5 coins: € 5,00 (Inside Europe) € 7,50 (Outside Europe)

6-10 coins: € 7,50 (Inside Europe) € 12,50 (Outside Europe)

 

The shipping at cost! It is the amount invoiced to us by the Postoffice...

Ouch!

Doc-Dean

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Wow, the shipping is more than the coin! Its a really cool looking coin but the cost with shipping is outrageous.

 

If anyone in the US is buying a bunch and wants to split the shipping costs, email me.

team_wolfje

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How come there is already "international" people in the order list if you start taking international orders tomorrow?

Yep, that's because there are some really clever people out there :grin: ...

 

This is our first coin, so be gentle with us.

Here's the real-life story:

 

We started out to make an event-only coin.

Because we wanted our own icon, 500 coins would have to be made.

Those number of coins we cannot sell on the event itself.

The page in the first place was for people at the event only and was all-Dutch.

 

Then there was an unautorized post in this forum and and in the German foum "leaking" the Dutch-only page.

 

Guess what: we got a lot of international entries in the forms... Duh. People filled countries in town fields etc. We did not know the coins were that popular.

So we put all those on the hold list...

 

In the team we argued about this: should we cancel all non-Dutch orders or not? In the end we tried to be reasonable and given the persons who filled in the form or email'd us about this the benifit of the doubt and give them the choice to priority-order the coins.

Priority-ordering is happening all the time: see the Finland coins, National Parks and a lot of others.

 

So don't be mad !! I've missed out on a lot of coins due to priority ordering or different timezones.

 

Needles to say: the next time we make a coin we will be a lot (A LOT) more carefull about the whole thing. Including looking into a better and cheaper way of shipping. I'm not crazy about the shipping costs either.

 

However: it IS a beatuful coin! And that's what it's all about.

team_wolfje

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Ooooo!!! Phases of the moon!  I just noticed that. 

It' s always nice when someone notices the details :grin:

Can you all guess who made the coin production ready? :(

 

In Dutch there is a saying (which contains some words that would be filtered out I think) which translates: "To put a feather into ones behind...". But I never heard of someone who did this for himself until the last post of KarelKraak :):grin:

AtlantaGal

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Can you all guess who made the coin production ready? :(

 

In Dutch there is a saying (which contains some words that would be filtered out I think) which translates: "To put a feather into ones behind...". But I never heard of someone who did this for himself until the last post of KarelKraak :):grin:

The slang English translation is something like "giving yourself a pat on the back" :grin:

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Ok, I will not be in town or near a computer tomorrow to get one of these coins.

 

My son is sick which is why I have not been around the forums much. We went to the specialist today and more tests were ran, plus we have two more doctors tomorrow, which is why I will not be around. Without going into to much detail here, he has a large mass that he has had for a year now. We found out today that the mass is larger than it was a year ago and the medicine they have had him on is not working.

 

Can somebody please order me one of these coins? These coins are the only thing keeping me sane :ph34r: .

ParentsofSAM

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Anyone on the East Coast wanna go in on these?

I wanna share the shipping too.

 

 

Also Ladycacher I would be glad to pick you up some coins. Hope everything works out for you and your son. I sent you an email.

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Anyone on the East Coast wanna go in on these?

Hi FlyinV,

 

Can this East Coast Canuck join the party for one coin? :ph34r:

 

Also sent an e-mail.

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mylt1

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can someone pm me with where the coin will be for sale at? i may end up buying a few extra just in case someone wants one after the sale. tia

Ladycacher

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Anyone on the East Coast wanna go in on these?

I wanna share the shipping too.

 

 

Also Ladycacher I would be glad to pick you up some coins. Hope everything works out for you and your son. I sent you an email.

I got your email and have sent one back to you.

 

Thanks so much to all who emailed with kind thoughts. We have been trying to avoid surgery, but we are headed that way very fast and my husband, nor I, are liking the idea of it much but whatever makes him better ya know.

AtlantaGal

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About 400 Regular Edition (Antique Bronze), 100 Limited Edition (Antique Silver), 20+ Special Edition (Antique Gold) and a few of some other metal :huh:, only for trade.

Just wanted to give you a heads up ---> Antique Brass and Antique gold are the same finish basically. You might want to switch the gold to shiny gold instead.

team_wolfje

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...Antique Brass and Antique gold are the same finish basically. You might want to switch the gold to shiny gold instead.

We'll see if we can change that. Since it is Chinese New Year over there, maybe it will be no problem.

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Another east coast person looking to buy this coin, anyone want to go in on the shipping?

I would be willing to get in on a purchase and share the cost of shipping. I'm in Portland, OR if that matters. Let me know.

team_wolfje

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Who is minting your coins?

OakCoins. No problem at all and very quick in answering. :huh:

The coin itself is beeing minted in China (offcourse).

 

The only real problem we have had until now is shipping costs from us to you.

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I am not sure what the process is but can a portion of the order be sold thru Oak Coins for shipping from them?

We will surely change another way of shipping with our next coin.

This was a quick-quick-quick process. The event is right around the corner and our timetable was very strickt. Doubtless to say we learned a lot from this one :).

So if (and if !) there will be another coin, things will be different. Surely the shipping will be different.

 

If you find the coin or the shipping too expensive I'm very sorry. I can assure you we are not making money on this coin. I think it will even cost us some money :).

But nobody is forcing this coin up to you (other than maybe a coin addiction :huh:).

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I am not sure what the process is but can a portion of the order be sold thru Oak Coins for shipping from them?

Yeah, I would personally help out as a hired gun to help with the packaging and U.S. shipping if you wanted to try to go that route. It's probably a bit late for that now though. Oh well.

 

--Marky

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