Creating Cache for Coin Collection

[+AtwellFamily]

Looking to activate a number of coins and place them in a cache "My collection" so they don't show as me holding them. Is there a way to create a cache to do this?

[+MustangJoni]

I use one of my archived caches. But you can create a cache, but not submit it for review.

[+Dr. Whoever]

Both ways MustangJoni said are the best ways.

I use an archived cache to hold over 400 coins that are activated.

[+Prairiepartners]

I changed a name of a disabled cache before archiving to something like "Prairiepartners Geocoin Collection" and changed description so others would know what it was being used for.

[+Anthus]

I use one of my archived caches. But you can create a cache, but not submit it for review.

 

My husband was just telling me today how a local cacher created a "dummy" cache and did not submit it for review as a way to keep all his coins this way.

[+Bunya]

I usually don't activate a geocoin unless I intend to set it free.

 

However I had wondered about creating a separate gc.com account to activate and store my "not for release" geocoins.

 

Can anyone see a problem with this idea?

[+Kealia]

Why create a seperate account? You can just do what the others have said above.

 

I went the route of creating a new cache and just never submitting it. I can still see it and the coins that I activated a while back sit in there.

[+wyohunter]

Yeah. What they said. I use that and when I go to an event, I take them out so they can be discovered and get some mileage. Is that wrong? Of course when/if my collection gets bigger I don't think I will take them all out. That might take a while.

[+Bunya]

Why create a seperate account? You can just do what the others have said above.

 

I went the route of creating a new cache and just never submitting it. I can still see it and the coins that I activated a while back sit in there.

 

I did that some time ago (set up an un-submitted cache), though I use it mainly for testing out cache page ideas, storing images etc.

 

My reasons for considering setting up a separate account are these:

I see geocoins as having two distinct identities now - their original one as travellers and their evolved one as collectibles.

I think that anyone looking the trackables in my profile should be able to assume that they are travelling or soon will be.

So if I activate geocoins I intend to keep, I want them to be separate and also I see them as independent of my “real” geocaching identity.

I raised this point of a separate account because, though I previously hadn’t intended to activate non-travellers, I now see the icons as part of the collection for me, but not part of my geocaching record. Sorry if this is getting overly philosophical.

Also I have sympathy for users with slow internet connections (like mine!) who have to wait an eternity for all the icons to download when they look at the “trackables” profile of a geocacher who is actually just displaying their collectibles.