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1.7k · January 14, 2005

Wow, where'd you get the great cases ???? Looks like you found ones that fit some of the hard-to-fit coins perfectly. Is there a particular model case you found, or local place to pick'em up ?

I got the cases when I ordered my Geocoin from http://www.usageocoins.com/store.htm They are $2.50 each and fit most coins well. The Washington State coin doesn't really close that well, it's too thick, but the rest fit in there fairly well.

I'll email you about the California coins...

Kiltsurfer

I got my cases directly from air-tites.com at 50 cents each for the ones with the black ring. Here's the link:

Air-Tites.com

I'm 99% sure that I ordered the 38mm Ring Type Air-Tite Morgan / Peace / Eisenhower Dollar size. Some coins, like the WA, GOWT, etc. were slightly larger, maybe a mm, but I just squished them in to fit.

They have a minimum order of $10 so I ordered 20 but I'm using most of them up.

2.3k · January 14, 2005

I got my cases directly from air-tites.com at 50 cents each for the ones with the black ring. Here's the link:

Air-Tites.com

I'm 99% sure that I ordered the 38mm Ring Type Air-Tite Morgan / Peace / Eisenhower Dollar size. Some coins, like the WA, GOWT, etc. were slightly larger, maybe a mm, but I just squished them in to fit.

They have a minimum order of $10 so I ordered 20 but I'm using most of them up.

Hooo! That's a nice price break from what I was paying! Thanks!

January 14, 2005

Here is another place to check out. I found the coins like Or, Ca, Pa fit best in the 38 mm size and the Wa, Tn, Ky M10B, take the 40 mm size. The thickness makes a good bit of difference.

bgf

http://www.jakesmp.com/CSD_Air_Tite/CSD_Air_Tite_001_M.html

January 15, 2005

My currant collection. Have my own coming so I can swap for personal coins.

bgf

http://www.solisstyle.com/ims/pic.php?u=2219LEGG5&i=12617

Edited January 15, 2005 by bluegillfisherman

2.8k · January 15, 2005

My collection of coins, real money, wooden nickels (2 are missing somehow?) and some other interesting sig items.

Edited January 15, 2005 by pdxmarathonman

2.8k · January 16, 2005

These cases look pretty neat. Kind of spendy though. And limited strictly to disc-shapes between 1.5" & 2" in diameter. Edited January 16, 2005 by pdxmarathonman

January 16, 2005

Picked up some 40MM cases on ebay they fit great for the larger coins 1.75 inches, and ok for the 1.5 inch coins 38mm would probably be better for 1.5 inches. With shipping comes to a little over 50 cents apiece.

40MM

38MM

Edited January 16, 2005 by Ray&Rose

1.8k · January 16, 2005

My latest, still waiting on three different coins.

Pepper

1.4k · January 17, 2005

My Coins

Look what I did! Even got Pepper's coin in there this time. I have a page for sig item type stuff too.

Sig items

Now I just need to do one for buttons and one for cards. Then get a front page for the whole thing.

January 17, 2005

Look what I did!

Nurse Dave,

That, my friend, is an excellent collection. Man, I'm nVus!

1.8k · January 18, 2005

My Coins

Look what I did! Even got Pepper's coin in there this time. I have a page for sig item type stuff too.

Sig items

Now I just need to do one for buttons and one for cards. Then get a front page for the whole thing.

Dave very cool how you did that , hmm...how does one do such work? Ahhh... never mind I could never do it.

Pepper

January 18, 2005

Dave very cool how you did that , hmm...how does one do such work? Ahhh... never mind I could never do it.

Pepper

Probably did it with the link at the bottom of those pages

January 18, 2005

My Coins

Look what I did! Even got Pepper's coin in there this time. I have a page for sig item type stuff too.

Sig items

Now I just need to do one for buttons and one for cards. Then get a front page for the whole thing.

That's pretty nice Dave. You might have inspired me to do the same... eventually... someday... maybe

4.2k · January 18, 2005

ND - I didn't realize that your collection was so extensive...very nice.

Keep those things under lock and key the next time I see ya. The little creature on the left here has been known to take things that don't belong tot him.... :rolleyes: .

January 18, 2005

Where do you get custom made coins? Anybody know a place that's pretty good?

January 18, 2005

Where do you get custom made coins? Anybody know a place that's pretty good?

Wood

Metal

Plastic

1.4k · January 19, 2005

My Coins

Look what I did! Even got Pepper's coin in there this time. I have a page for sig item type stuff too.

Sig items

Now I just need to do one for buttons and one for cards. Then get a front page for the whole thing.

Dave very cool how you did that , hmm...how does one do such work? Ahhh... never mind I could never do it.

Pepper

Ya, with the program cd2html. I know nothing about webpages and with that program you just tell it which folder the pics are in and type in a description for each. The only problem is it just does one page at a time like that. I need to learn how to make a main page with links to the other pages on it.

But I got my button page done

button

1.4k · January 19, 2005

Hey I know I'm boring you all with my first adventures into make a webpage. But here is the end for now. I just figured out how to make a simple page with Netscape. Not too exciting to look at, but I'm pretty thrilled I actually got it to work :huh:

There are already a few more items I need to take pics of so check back for updates and to see if I can learn more web stuff.

Geocaching stuff

January 22, 2005

Wow- great pages Nurse Dave! I just have a few things- here's a card I found in TX- I thought it was cute. I had seen the team name on some log books but didn't understand it until I saw the card!

January 24, 2005

i'm waiting for some carbon blocks so i can start casting my sig items. might be awhile before you see the metal ones, but the stone ones may be out sooner..

nice job on a lot of these!

February 6, 2005

Being new to this geocaching, I have a question. What is the normal trade item when you take a coin? It would seem that some of the items people find end up in other caches, but some are meant to be collected. Should you have a stack of coins to leave for others to find, or just collect them by trading other 'neat' stuff?

2.8k · February 6, 2005

Being new to this geocaching, I have a question. What is the normal trade item when you take a coin? It would seem that some of the items people find end up in other caches, but some are meant to be collected. Should you have a stack of coins to leave for others to find, or just collect them by trading other 'neat' stuff?

You should definitely have a stack of very cool panther coins to trade. Oh yeah, and I'll trade you and Oregon geocoin for 1 of them

Seriously though, few folks actually own geocoins (well, before the Washington Coin order anyway) so you just need to trade as fairly as possible. Keep in mind that some of these coins cost about $4 or $5 :blink:

1.1k · February 6, 2005

Being new to this geocaching, I have a question. What is the normal trade item when you take a coin? It would seem that some of the items people find end up in other caches, but some are meant to be collected. Should you have a stack of coins to leave for others to find, or just collect them by trading other 'neat' stuff?

The other thing to keep in mind is that many geocoins are meant to be travel bugs and not to be collected.

It is up to the person that created, or purchased, the coin to decide if it is OK for someone to keep it.

The collections that you see in this thread are generally obtained by purchase or by the collector trading their own coin for another cacher's coin.

2.8k · February 7, 2005

Hey I know I'm boring you all with my first adventures into make a webpage. But here is the end for now. I just figured out how to make a simple page with Netscape. Not too exciting to look at, but I'm pretty thrilled I actually got it to work

There are already a few more items I need to take pics of so check back for updates and to see if I can learn more web stuff.

Geocaching stuff

This is not really on topic (except as it relates to ND's webpage generation - sort of).

I recently downloaded google's Picasa2 free software for managing and editing pictures. It can find all pics on your computer for you and you can easily view/edit them without having to remember where they are. It displays thumbnails of all pics and movies that it finds.

Very cool. And the price is right.

February 7, 2005

I just got an e-mail...they should be ready in 2 weeks.

February 7, 2005

Very nice Facedances... since you have one of my coins already I hope we'll find a way to trade.

7.4k · February 7, 2005

Very nice Facedances... since you have one of my coins already I hope we'll find a way to trade.

Likewise!

1.4k · February 7, 2005

Ya, email sent. I'm horny for one of those.

February 7, 2005

Ya, email sent. I'm horny for one of those.

too much info ND

February 7, 2005

Sure, I'll trade...it would be good to have more than one of each.

1.4k · February 15, 2005

Click on my profile and you can see a picture of my new coins.

Anyone wanna do some trading?

February 16, 2005

That username is great. As oregone would point out, the city of Portland out-lawed those in August of 2002.

March 10, 2005

I got my cases directly from air-tites.com at 50 cents each for the ones with the black ring. Here's the link:

Air-Tites.com

I'm 99% sure that I ordered the 38mm Ring Type Air-Tite Morgan / Peace / Eisenhower Dollar size. Some coins, like the WA, GOWT, etc. were slightly larger, maybe a mm, but I just squished them in to fit.

They have a minimum order of $10 so I ordered 20 but I'm using most of them up.

Hooo! That's a nice price break from what I was paying! Thanks!

I just recieved my order from www.air-tites.com for the X6 X40mm Ring 1.6" Military Challenge Coin with black or white ring for 75 cents each, and they fit perfectly. The X6 series is designed to hold thicker coins (Military Challenge coins, Casino Chips). They do require a minimum order of $10. I ordered mine late on the 5th of March and they got here on the 9th.

I think the WA Geocoins look great in this holder.

JimT

The Terrible T's

March 12, 2005

In surfing the web, I found Valley Coin in Golden Valley Minnesota, does anybody have any experience with them ?

Looks like they have the usual assortment of Air-Tites including some albums for those holders that look interesting. Also have a cheap $5 coin measurement device to make sure you get the right size holders.

Does anybody have a consolidated list of the sizes for all the various coins ? Since some of the sites have $10 minimums, guessing wrong on size might get a little expensive....

Lastly, is there a local Puget Sound distributor of Air-Tites with a store we can go to that anybody knows of ?

March 23, 2005

Sorry for any redundancy, but I am a budding collector with several Michigan geocoins available to trade. These coins are numbered/trackable. I also have a micro sig item that I would be interested in trading for similar quirky homemade items (or better, of course )... the item is a silver plated armadillo wired to a two-sided micro tag... each tag is versioned so I can track where and when I drop them, and who picks them up. Please drop me a line if interested. Gracias!

March 23, 2005

E-mail sent.

-R-

March 26, 2005

Sorry for any redundancy, but I am a budding collector with several Michigan geocoins available to trade. These coins are numbered/trackable. I also have a micro sig item that I would be interested in trading for similar quirky homemade items (or better, of course )... the item is a silver plated armadillo wired to a two-sided micro tag... each tag is versioned so I can track where and when I drop them, and who picks them up. Please drop me a line if interested. Gracias!

email sent---

DC

3.8k · March 26, 2005

Sorry for any redundancy, but I am a budding collector with several Michigan geocoins available to trade. These coins are numbered/trackable. I also have a micro sig item that I would be interested in trading for similar quirky homemade items (or better, of course )... the item is a silver plated armadillo wired to a two-sided micro tag... each tag is versioned so I can track where and when I drop them, and who picks them up. Please drop me a line if interested. Gracias!

E-mail sent

Shop99er

2.8k · March 27, 2005

Here is my meager and lacking collection...

And here is a close-up of my current Sig Item if anyone is interested in a trade...

1.4k · March 28, 2005

Allanon, nice collection. Especially the coin on top center. Bold colors, striking shape, a real stand out. But then...I'm kinda partial to that coin :rolleyes:

April 7, 2005

Collection as of 04/06/05

Edited April 7, 2005 by blazerfan

April 16, 2005

Anyone interested in trading for a CAC Geocoin?

If so please email me at h1tch_h1k3r@yahoo.ca

April 24, 2005

Just a quick link to a related topic - I'm looking for people interested collecting in my personal Geocoin:

http://forums.Groundspeak.com/GC/index.php?showtopic=96533&hl=

--Marc

April 24, 2005 @ 5:46 PM

N40° 46.565' W073° 58.756'

April 29, 2005

>My wife is unimpressed with my private collection of trinkets.

Add me to the list of unimpressed. I'd have to say I always thought that these coins should be kept moving and not hoarded... but obviously I'm in the minority. I haven't seen a coin in more than 2 years!

1.4k · April 29, 2005

>My wife is unimpressed with my private collection of trinkets.

Add me to the list of unimpressed. I'd have to say I always thought that these coins should be kept moving and not hoarded... but obviously I'm in the minority. I haven't seen a coin in more than 2 years!

Well you can't complain to us about that. We trade with each other for these coins or buy them. About the only coins you'll see in caches are state and country ones. Wooden nickles are swapped like any other trade item, as are most personal coins.

7.4k · April 29, 2005

Add me to the list of unimpressed. I'd have to say I always thought that these coins should be kept moving and not hoarded... but obviously I'm in the minority. I haven't seen a coin in more than 2 years!

If people were hoarding coins that had travel goals, then I would agree. However, the vast majority of geocoin collections are obtained through trades or direct purchase. I know of few cachers who keep geocoins against the wishes of the coin owners.

1.4k · April 30, 2005

I know of few cachers who keep geocoins against the wishes of the coin owners.

I've heard about some cacher's who want their geocoins back when they can't get another geocacher's personal geocoin.

4.2k · April 30, 2005

And I've heard of cachers who don't return items or emails.

To stay on topic, though. I'll post a pic shortly - just filled up my coin rack; time to get a bigger one.

1.4k · April 30, 2005

And I've heard of cachers who don't return items or emails.

To stay on topic, though. I'll post a pic shortly - just filled up my coin rack; time to get a bigger one.

How long will I have to wait to make the "nice rack" comment?

7.4k · April 30, 2005

I know of few cachers who keep geocoins against the wishes of the coin owners.

I've heard about some cacher's who want their geocoins back when they can't get another geocacher's personal geocoin.

Why do insist on continuing to try to stir up trouble? Grow up and drop it. Besides, I only suggested undoing our "trade" when you commented that you felt you got the worst end of the deal.

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