Posts Tagged ‘geocoin’

Racer Geocoin

Slug Bug! I called it first! We love to play slug bug, so SupremeMe just HAD to get this cool bug geocoin.

It took me a bit of searching to figure out the name of this coin. Apparently it is named the racer geocoin. As far as I can tell it isn't listed on the wiki page. I was able to find an ebay listing for an orange one that lists the coin as being 2 inches wide and 3mm thick. The Orange one has a black nickel finish and is made with soft enamel. It is trackable and has its own icon. I imagine that information also holds true for the green one. It was originally sold at the geocoin store. This one was purchased from ebay. Which reminds me, I need to add a vehicle category to my store. I will do that this evening. I have no idea how many of these were minted.

We have our own version of the slug bug game. We give one smack for a new one, Two smacks for an old one and three smacks for an old vanagon bus. If you call it wrong, whoever was on the receiving end gets to smack you back twice as many times. Also, if you drive by a parked car and then drive back by later in the day it still counts because it is a new trip. Same goes for going in a store and coming back out. The game certainly keeps us all on our toes.

As a side note. We just went on a road trip to Oregon. Be forewarned, There are TONS of bugs in Oregon. Especially in the parking lot of the Oregon Country Fair. It was like a freaking vanagon convention.

My arm is still sore.

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Tempting the Fates

This is another one of SupremeMe's geocoins. The coin was designed by Chris Mackey . I'm not sure how many were minted, or when it was released. There were a few on ebay so I thought it was a new coin, but I see it has been out and about since at least early 07. I found a reference that it was supposed to ship on January 20th. That particular blog entry didn't have a date but posts above and below it are for December 2006. So my best guess is that it was released some time in early 07.

SupremeMe was pretty excited about this coin when it came. It has both a curse on it and an easter egg of sorts. The text under the skull reads something to the tune of

Don't tempt fate

Move my coin

Steal this coin

at your peril
Also, the designer incorporated his initial in to the design. If you look underneath the skull you can see the letter "M". The coin is 1.75 inches in diameter and is 3mm think. SupremeMe won't be releasing this one in to the wild. Instead it will remain in his collection. Hopefully it won't bring him bad luck. After all, he hasn't stolen it from a cache. He bought it fair and square!

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iCache Gold LE Blue Glitter Geocoin

I'm not sure how many of these were made. I think 50 were made. I was lucky enough to find this one on my first trip to the StarGate.  The back is flat, shiny and has the tracking code. I was delighted to find it. I love my iPod and this one is both glittery and  my favorite color. It is trackable on the geocaching website.

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Purple Wizard Cacher Tag Geocoin

This was a fun geocoin to find. The cache it was discovered in can only be found if someone else gives you the cords. It is called: Heard It Through The GrapeVine. Fun stuff. The container is wedged in the base of a bush. It is wrapped in fabric grape vines for cammo. I am currently on vacation, so I brought this one along with me to Oregon. I placed it in the hustle prize zone cache.

I was first to find on the Hustle Prize Zone cache just about three years ago. I didn't bring my GPS with me on the trip (big mistake) so I found myself trying  to find caches solely by remembering where they were. I didn't even take the time to look online. The first one I tried to find isn't even there anymore. I looked for this one again, because it was in a convenient park where my kids could catch up with friends. I'm so happy that we looked for it.

You see, I didn't remember that we were first to find on this one until we pulled out the log. The kids were over the moon. I didn't think anything else about it until I went to log it back at the hotel. I went back to read what we wrote originally just for grins. I'm telling you, the geocaching website makes for a wonderful diary. I can't for the life of me seem to keep a journal, but I will sometimes take the time to write about finding a cache.  It is like keeping a memory book. I read the log and then all of a sudden I remembered how frustrating it was trying to find the cache, as well as how funny the whole thing was.  It was like a little window into the past.

in a nut shell...

We went to find the cache. While looking for it we ran in to another caching family. It appeared as though they were just trying to be sneaky about finding it. The guy, turned his geocaching hat around so that we couldn't see the logo. We assumed that they were also trying to be first to find. it seemed like we were trying to wait each other out, so we ended up leaving so they could take first to find. As it turns out, they were the owners of the  cache. No one had found it yet, so they were just checking up on it to make sure it was ok. They saw us looking for it, and decided to hang out and see if we could find it. [:p]

On our second attempt at finding it, we ran in to some friends at the park. We were trying to be discrete, as were they...it was then that we discovered that they were also cachers! It took us forever to find it. It was our first magnetic find. We found it stuck to the bottom of the trash can.

Fun stuff. i really want to encourage you guys to take the time to really put some effort in to logs. It is so easy to get in the habit of writing "TFTH" or "SLTN". Take the time to put down some memories. You'll be so happy you did when you look back down the road.

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Scottish Thistle Geocoin

This Scottish Thistle Geocoin belongs to SupremeMe. He has recently been bitten by the geocoin bug and has been purchasing coins for his personal collection.  I'd like to give a quick thank you to SupremeMe.  He has been letting me snag photos of them as they have been arriving, and boy have I been snapping photos. He is really getting in to this geocoin thing. Lucky me!  This is one of those coins that is hard to do it justice with a photo. It is very pretty. I am glad to have gotten to see it in person. As part of a collection, this coin will probably never see the the inside of a cache.

I'm cool with that though. [:)]  Someday I hope to have a collection of my own.

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Bailey Dog’s Trakabulldog Geocoin

This is the Bailey Dog Trakabulldog Geocoin. I think it is pretty cute. I retrieved this from the local Stargate. It was one of the ones I returned back to the Stargate the following week. I hope it makes it someplace neat. This coin belongs to ocdman.

I finally got my photo setup put together. I wish I still had this coin so that I could get a clearer photo of it. I'm Sorry Bailey Dog. I think you're cute, so I'm putting this photo up anyway. I wonder what other breed specific coins are out there.

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Uckermark Geocoin

This is the Uckermark Geocoin. I didn't actually retrieve this one. A friend of mine hiked up to the snowshoe cache and found it for me. The picture doesn't do it justice. It is a really beautiful coin. This particular coin has a pretty generic goal to travel the world. It belongs to tokencollector and was released in North Carolina on Sept 12th, 2007.

I deposited it in a local stargate. So hopefully it makes an international jump some time soon. I actually dropped of 5 coins in the hope that they are moved around the world. Interesting thing these stargates. (loved the movie and the series by the way). I was under the impression that things needing to move would be marked. However, I took 5 coins and once I logged them I discovered that 4 of them have international hopes. So I'm thinking the system is flawed. Or, at the very least the box needs to be emptied more frequently so that outbound items are not picked back up by people like me. I'll be making the 30 mile drive again next week to drop off the items I apparently pinched. Incidentally, I also dropped off that California Poppy. The Stargate (assuming it works) will get the swag closer to its goal than my dad can.

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Custom geocoin

This coin is the first one I found. I know, I know, you thought the poppy was the first one I found. The poppy is the first trackable coin that I found. This one can't be tracked, so I get to keep it. I found it in the Bear Creek Bridge Cache. I didn't even have the GPS with me. I looked at the geocaching website, saw there was one in the area and commented on it when I took my kids up on a hike. It took my son all of 30 seconds to find it. He disappeared under the bridge and popped up a few seconds later with the container in his hand. My friend was with me and he was all "what's that?", and then I got to tell him all about geocaching.

I signed up to geocache a couple of years ago. In the few weeks since I found the Bear Creek Cache, my friend has surpassed me in caches found. It is an addictive hobby. Its almost become a competition between the two of us

I also need to sit down and have a chat with my son. This isn't exactly Oregon. He really needs to look before poking around under things. There are lots of snakes here in Utah. As a parent it is always fun to put enough fear in to the kids that they remember to pay attention to their surroundings, but not so much that they don't want to go.

Back to the coin. I am assuming that this is a signature item. A signature item would be something that someone buys (or makes) a lot of, so that they can leave the same thing in every cache they find. At least that is my understanding of it. So far I've found a cool wooden chess piece, some wine charms and now a geocoin that 3 costco guys had made up. I don't currently have a signature item, but I think I should. I think I need a really cool coin.

I give you: 3 costco guys:

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Cache Movers Geocoin

This is actually the second coin I found, but the first one I went about purposely finding. I looked for 9 caches. I found 7 of them. All were supposed to have coins but this is the only one I was able to get. I think its cute.   It was located in a small cache in a church parking lot. I deposited it in a cache specifically for coins. Wait till you see the one I traded it for.

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