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10/05/2004 at 8:51 pm #1721566
I’m starting to build up my collection of geocoins. After having a few I decide I want to collect some that are out there. Of course I’m talking about uncirculated ones…lol.
Wondering if anyone has any to trade or for sale. So far I have Californias, and Canada. I also have the Washington coin on order and should be getting that soon.
I wish we would have one for WI but the coins don’t seem to be that big around here.
Team Golden.
10/13/2004 at 9:22 pm #1748729I looked in here to see if you guys were having any discussion about making a Wisconsin geocoin. I guess not. I can hook you up with an Oregon one. I’m looking for sig items to add to my collection. So maybe if you can round up some items from cachers in your area we can arrange something. Shoot me an email if you’re interested.
10/13/2004 at 10:15 pm #1748730If we could find a fair price on a run of 100 coins, I think we would have done it already. There is a lot of interest, but the cost of minting a small run was beyond what we could distribute them for.
If anyone finds a deal- we can sure look into it further!
10/14/2004 at 12:03 am #1748731Wisconsin isn’t a small state. What makes you think you’ll only sell 100? Heck I’d buy 10-15 myself. Coins are becoming big collectors things. I bet you would sell 100 to out of state people alone if they looked neat.
If you use the same company as the Oregon, Texas, Canada, and USA coins the price is down around $2.50 if you order like 250 of them. I organized the Oregon coin and could help get someone started if there was interest. I know the other type of coins are flashier, but that’s where you get into $4-5 a piece. But even at that price Washington just sold 1500 coins.
You might also get more response on the gc.com forums.
10/14/2004 at 12:36 am #1748732quote:
Originally posted by NurseDave:
Wisconsin isn’t a small state. What makes you think you’ll only sell 100?
I was not looking at selling them openly. My thoughts were more of distributing only among active WI association members for special awards and the like.
Having a coin distributed to the masses is a fine idea too.
10/14/2004 at 1:20 am #1748733NurseDave – What’s your e-mail address. There isn’t one listed. I couldn’t find you on geocaching.com either.
10/14/2004 at 2:18 am #1748734Ah, I’m Nurse Dave with a space on gc.com.
10/18/2004 at 1:06 pm #1748735quote:
Originally posted by NurseDave:
Wisconsin isn’t a small state. What makes you think you’ll only sell 100? Heck I’d buy 10-15 myself.
Ditto. I especially like a concept I was introduced to in Washington state… leave a cool geocoin in the really tough caches as an extra incentive for folks to hunt them who might have otherwise skipped them.
Steve K
10/18/2004 at 4:45 pm #1748736I agree with the fact that WI should develop a coin. I’m going to go down the other road and design Team Golden’s own coin.
11/05/2004 at 12:51 pm #1748737quote:
Originally posted by Team Golden:
I’m starting to build up my collection of geocoins. After having a few I decide I want to collect some that are out there. Of course I’m talking about uncirculated ones…lol.Wondering if anyone has any to trade or for sale. So far I have Californias, and Canada. I also have the Washington coin on order and should be getting that soon.
Team Golden.
Michigan just recieved our first geocoins in our online store. Maybe you want to check ours out? This is our first shipment and I think they will be sold out fast. http://www.mi-geocaching.org/store
11/16/2004 at 5:14 pm #1748738quote:
Originally posted by Cathunter:
If we could find a fair price on a run of 100 coins, I think we would have done it already. There is a lot of interest, but the cost of minting a small run was beyond what we could distribute them for.If anyone finds a deal- we can sure look into it further!
Hello,
I came accros this site while searching for geocoins to trade and this quote caught my eye. Hope you don’t mind if I reply to it.
I’m a member of the Alabama Geocachers Association (In Alabama of courese!). A few months back I started getting interested in geocoins so I did some research and presented it to the AGA. I didn’t expect to receive much interested in it at the time. Much to my amazement in just a few short months we we already had a design worked out and were collecting orders! We needed to hit a 200 coin minimum to place an order. I wasn’t sure that we were going to be able to do this. However we actually ended up ordering over 550 coins in the end.
Check out the prices at http://www.kvcoins.com. They are very reasonable and great to work with. So far they have the best prices that I’ve seen. Also, if you log on to our site at http://www.alacache.com you can find a couple of threads in the general forum and retrace the process that we went through.
I wish you guys luck if you decide to persue this. I’d also be interested in trading an Alabama coin for a Wisconsin one when you get them!
Dave aka Bamageek
04/09/2005 at 1:32 am #1748739Heck, if nobody in Wisconsin wants to do the coin, I will do it.
I also have coins to trade as well, please send me your coins you have to trade and I will let you know what I have as well.
04/09/2005 at 4:20 am #1748740I was talking about this in the GC forums about which material for coins, specifically for casting. My current thought is to make a mold out of aluminum, and use lead free pewter or even pure tin to make the coin.
I asked about whats required to make a press or dies for a struck coin, but didn’t get any responses.
I’m a machinist, with CNC equipment, so its no big deal to make a mold or coinmaking dies.
John
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