Posts Tagged ‘trackable geocoin’

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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Celtic Sun GeoCoin.

This post is for my good friend SupremeMe. He was lamenting last night that with all of the coins he has purchased (and I have taken photos of) only one of his has appeared on my site. This one is another one of his. As it would have it, it is also one of my favorites. He has good taste in geocoins.

It originally came in Gold, Silver and Copper. I would have loved to have seen the copper ones, but they have sold out. Funny thing about that...... SupremeMe bought it off ebay. Lesson learned. If you find a coin on Ebay that you like, google it and see if it is still in production or is available from the manufacture. Why duke it out on Ebay  and pay $20 for it when you can get it for $10.99 from lillysue?  The really funny bit was when he found out that he bought it from Lillysue on Ebay. :p  If you are interested in owning one as of right now there are still some available. However, if you want copper you are going to have to take your chances on Ebay.

The coin is 50mm across (2 inches) and is 3.5mm thick. It is trackable on Geocaching.com and it comes with a fancy icon.

Edited to add (March 3 09)

Total minting numbers for the Celtic Sun is 400.
165 - Gold
160 - Silver
75 - LE 

The AE of each will be nickel, black nickel and foggy nickel respectively.  The entire set will have suns, stars and moons.

I have one of the Stars, but I'll do a separate post for that.

Artist Edition?

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Start-Run-Win geocoins

I offered to release some of the Start-Run-Win geocoins here in Utah. Their owner sent me 8 of them. I got to go out and find 8 caches to drop them in. It was fun, although a bit challenging. It seems like there are caches every twenty feet here in the Salt Lake Valley. The problem is that probably 90% of them are micro caches. You can't really leave a coin in something the size of a raisin. I managed to find some to place them in  though. Two are now hanging in trees and two are in parking garages. Two are under trees and I believe two are in the skirting around the bottom of light poles. Fun Stuff.

These are trackable coins, but you can't track them on the geocaching website. If you find one, you need to log it at the Start-Run-Win website. It will be neat to see how far they travel.

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