2011 Geocoin Approved

Quite a few people have asked to be kept abreast of the status on our new geocoins. We received our second set of samples following some corrections and finally approved our 2011 coins. Provided all goes well from here we should see the coins in roughly a month. Once they've arrived we'll have some for trade and Firefly03 will be taking care of lining up and making those trades closer to their arrival. So watch for more information in a few weeks.

2011 Geocoin?

This is not an announcement, just mention that we're looking at producing a 2011 geocoin. We've submitted the artwork at right for bid for a more limited run of trackable coins. These will be very similar to the 2005 joint coin we did, just modified slightly and in different metals. We liked the simplicity of that first coin and are looking to continue that series. We'll see what the quotes have to say when they come back, but there might be a 2011 DarrylW4 & Firefly03 coin floating around before long.

Tiki Coins

I might have grown tired of the Geocoin madness, but there's one set of coins that I'll always watch out for – GeoTikis! What's different about these coins than the majority of others is that these are each handmade little sculptures by tiki (whom we interviewed for CAM013). They have a great studio page on their website showing the lost wax casting process they go through to create these little signature coins. That's what I truly enjoy about these – they're hand made signature items by a the Geocacher rather than being a mass produced stamped geocoin. There's special meaning in that.

This current series of coins features four separate characters who fit together. The Tiki's Stackers began with "the Subborn Stone" who according to legend, was a Geocaching that turned to stone attempting an FTF. Next was "the Following Fellow" who just tags along for the cache finds. The third in the series (and the one we for which we missed the sale) was "Fivé Fivé." This Tiki hunted the most challenging caches in the forest, and in his honor, the most difficult caches on Geocaching.com are named five/five. Today opened the sale of the last of these Stacker coins – "Mr. Stone Face." This Tiki will not give up any hints or clues as to the location of the cache. He does complete the collection for those lucky enough to grab each of the others. In all, 200 bronze and only 10 sterling silver coins were cast of each making them very hard to find and collect. Our set will be treasured.

Our 2006 Mini-Geocoins

Believe it or not, more than two years after they arrived we still have some of our 2006 mini Geocoins left. There aren't many, but if you happen to run into us tomorrow we bring most of them with us and are looking to get rid of a few.

COINS!

WHEE! COINS!
Well as you can guess I am happy. I just got two coins that I badly wanted from that evil place called eBay. There are two more I am looking at. Maybe I will get them? We will see!