avroair Posted July 24, 2008 Share Posted July 24, 2008 I just noticed the first 4 AT trail 2008 coins are up on Geoswag Georgia, West Virginia, Virginia and Maryland. There are currently 100 available of each in antique copper (previous versions were antique silver LE and antique bronze). You can buy them HERE You can read about the original idea HERE Trackable: YES Custom Icon: YES Quote Link to comment
gridlox Posted July 24, 2008 Share Posted July 24, 2008 You can read about the original idea HERE If the ATGEOCOIN website is unavailable, please try again at a later time. Unfortunately the timing of this release didn't notify Mother Nature. Tuesday evening lightning killed the main server the website was originally hosted on and to say it was fried was an understatement. (Also took out a 2nd server, a cable modem, a router, 2 digital TV cable boxes & a TV Lighting hit the power pole and run in on the cable line is what we figure.) "Fortunately" we had a backup. "Unfortunately" the server that it now resides on is basically an old desktop machine that is severly overworking at the moment. Hopefully the new servers will go back online this coming weekend and things will be back to normal. Until then we may have some brief outage times while we get things transfered and up and running. Also, the artwork for "ALL" the designs will be updated next week as well. D-man Quote Link to comment
+DrJeepStr Posted July 24, 2008 Share Posted July 24, 2008 Does anyone know how many of the copper will be minted?? Also, will the whole set be eventually done in that finish? What timeframe? Thanks in advance!! DrJeepStr Quote Link to comment
+Bhob Posted August 24, 2008 Share Posted August 24, 2008 I just had a chance to see the new copper versions of these coins, and I noticed something odd if my memory is correct, the second coin in the original series was a combined Tennessee and North Carolina coin that one seems to have been skipped in this new release does anyone know why this was done ? Quote Link to comment
+Bhob Posted December 1, 2008 Share Posted December 1, 2008 the third wave of these coins was recently delivered, and I noticed something unusual the coin that says "NEW HAMPSHIRE" shows the outline of the state of Vermont (the original two editions of this coin had the name and outline matched correctly on each coin) the thing that surprises me the most, is that I had thought that the same dies were being used for this edition of the coins, and that only the finish was changed I would have thought that a difference like that would have required new dies, and thus a fee for same Quote Link to comment
gridlox Posted December 2, 2008 Share Posted December 2, 2008 the third wave of these coins was recently delivered, and I noticed something unusual the coin that says "NEW HAMPSHIRE" shows the outline of the state of Vermont (the original two editions of this coin had the name and outline matched correctly on each coin) the thing that surprises me the most, is that I had thought that the same dies were being used for this edition of the coins, and that only the finish was changed I would have thought that a difference like that would have required new dies, and thus a fee for same In doing series coins like this with the same basic shape and theme, just dropping in certain elements is all that is needed to change the coin from edition to edition. Unfortunately, the state didn't get changed in the original art sent to the mint when doing the New Hampshire coin. (the unfortunate result of late night designing and not double checking yourself )This was caught when the original AS & AG coins were made, but not before the dies were created. So, a second set of dies were made before any coins were actually produced. Somewhere along the lines, the orignal (wrong) dies were accidentally used to make the AC edition of this one. It seems the mint keeps ALL dies made, even it they are wrong. Geoswag is aware of this and is looking into options on how to handle the mistake. D-man Quote Link to comment
+Bhob Posted December 2, 2008 Share Posted December 2, 2008 Thank You very much for the explanation it all makes perfect sense now - - - - this is just me being curious . . . but do you happen to know why the TN/NC coin was skipped ? I was told via e-mail that they would all be made eventually it just struck me as odd that one would be skipped, as compared with the original sequence for that matter, it looks like another was skipped in the current wave (this wave included MA, VT or NH and ME) but for now, it is not clear if it was VT or NH that got skipped Quote Link to comment
+Arrow One Posted December 2, 2008 Share Posted December 2, 2008 If anyone gets an extra New Jersey one, I'd like to trade or buy it if possible. Their website only accepts paypal, and I dont do paypal. Quote Link to comment
+Rubiconlwb Posted December 27, 2008 Share Posted December 27, 2008 I am very confused with this coin. I have not been collecting coins for some time but since I started the AT coins, I would like to get the whole set. I was getting the regular and SE versions of all the coins but there was a huge gap where no coins were produced and that is about the time I quit buying coins. At that time, I was under the impression that after all the coins were released there would be one final 'commemorative' coin for the whole series minted. Has this happened? Have all coins been produced? Are they now making re-mints of the original coins in different finishes. A general chronological history of this coin set would be appreciated. Is it possible to still get the last couple of the original mintings? As you can see I am not well informed about this coin at all. In fact, I'm not totally sure what coins I do have but believe I have up to perhaps Pennsylvania. Quote Link to comment
+Bhob Posted December 28, 2008 Share Posted December 28, 2008 A general chronological history of this coin set would be appreciated. here is the information that I have - the original coins in this series were released in antique bronze and antique silver the bronze ones had soft enamel, the silver ones had hard enamel they were released over time, usually one state at a time the bronze ones were sold individually the silver ones were only sold as part of a two-coin set (one each of bronze and silver) I believe that this was true for all 13 state coins and the "final" coin (the 14th coin) there was a fairly long gap of time (over a year, I think) between the release of the last state coin (Maine) and the release of the "final" coin the entire set has been/is being re-minted in antique copper with one exception (see below) the same dies were used these copper coins have soft enamel they have been released in "waves" 4 were released, then 4 more, then 3 more, then another 3 (the current 3 are listed on the GeoSwag presale page if you subscribe to the newsletter, you should have seen this by now if not, you will have to wait for the general release) if the trend continues, all that is left is the "final" coin in copper I am pretty sure that some of the coins are still available at GeoSwag - one of the two original "final" coins (the bronze one, I think) and most (maybe all) of the states in the current crop of copper finish coins oddity - the initial copper New Hampshire coin was produced with an error it said "New Hampshire", but showed the state of Vermont I believe that it has been re-made with the correct state and name Quote Link to comment
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