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So you can get coins for milestones achieved 100 250 etc and the websites say you can get your local cobbler to engrave them great.

 

But today I asked how much it would cost to engrave RIP George and the date for my daughters guinea pig onto a brass plaque and they wanted to charge me in excess of 12 quid. So i asked what about putting a date on an award coin and they said £8 minimum

 

Now maybe I am being ripped off here but if you get your coins engraved where do people go and what does it cost you surely not nearly a tenner . If I ever get to a milestone I dont think I will be engraving them at this rate.

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I've bought a geo-achievement coin for each of our milestones and then had our caching name engraved by the combined local cobbler/keycutter/sports trophy/pet accessories/shoeshop man in our village. He charges £10.

 

MrsB

Was this each one or for a collections of them

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Probably the most economic way to have them engraved is to buy them directly from Coin & Pins who offer to engrave the for $6, however any savings may well be lost with the international shipping.

Just checked and with $9.45 shipping it comes out at around £19.68, not cheap IMHO but probably cheaper than buying from a UK supplier and then adding £10 to get it engraved.

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So you can get coins for milestones achieved 100 250 etc and the websites say you can get your local cobbler to engrave them great.

 

But today I asked how much it would cost to engrave RIP George and the date for my daughters guinea pig onto a brass plaque and they wanted to charge me in excess of 12 quid. So i asked what about putting a date on an award coin and they said £8 minimum

 

Now maybe I am being ripped off here but if you get your coins engraved where do people go and what does it cost you surely not nearly a tenner . If I ever get to a milestone I dont think I will be engraving them at this rate.

 

Not sure if it's quite what you were thinking of but I created this travel bug for my cat Pru

 

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joined with a simple TB, it has her dates (1992-2012) on the reverse.

 

for my Sisters dog I had one made, using the code from a TB and the words trackable at www.geocaching.com printed on it

 

both from http://www.artscow.com/photo-gifts/Dog-Tags

the standard price plus postage is off putting, but sign up to the newsletter and you get email offers with special prices and free postage etc... the ones I have purchased have come out at around £2 each on special offer (and the offers get repeated frequently) so for around £7 (inc TB purchase) you can have a personalised trackable

 

eta - I see they are on special offer at the moment here http://www.artscow.com/promote/fcfs.aspx $2.99 inc free shipping, so less than £2 each :-)

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