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Geocoin Copy


Sivartius

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I found my third cache today, and inside was something that called itself a "geocoin copy". The front had a picture of the front of the geocoin. It's this geocoin. On the back it says:

I am a geocoin copy

Please log me at

 

(and then there is a long blue smudge.)

Below that it says:

Than move to a new cache

(and has the tracking number.

 

Is this a/the normal way of dealing with a MIA geocoin? Reading through the logs it seems that it has been a copy for a while, but at least Oct 2008 it was "real". So what do you all think? :unsure: :unsure:

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Is this a/the normal way of dealing with a MIA geocoin?

Yes, they're not very common, but you'll see them sometimes. When a coin disappears, you can re-use its tracking number, and the least expensive way is with a laminated photo. You can also buy or make a blank metal "proxy" tag, something like a Travel Bug, engrave the code on it, and release it attached to any object. You can track it just as if it were the actual coin.

 

The proxy coin usually means that someone's coin was stolen, so the coin owner made a "new one" to keep traveling despite this. More power to 'em.

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I feel that in a world in which recycling is now "in".... it is a great way to reuse the tracking number which costs at least 1.50 in order to have on geocaching.com ..... why not create a travelbug out of that number? I feel that even a copy of a coin is more interesting than the moldy/mildewed crap that is normally in a cache. :laughing:

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I find geocoins beautiful and increasingly more expensive. I've decided that I will make proxies of mine and send them out into the world and keep the originals. I have found that they get moved and don't disappear. It is always nice to find a real geocoin in a cache but I hope as I move them that they will stay active. If one of mine goes missing, it isn't a big loss. If a real one goes missing, it is at least a $10 loss. If cachers choose to leave the proxy in a cache or just discover it, I understand. I don't understand when a real coin goes missing and by sending out the proxy, I don't have to be concerned about it. I purchased a bunch of the dog tag like proxy tags earlier this year before the web site that made them folded so I now just have two laminated items keychained together - a two sided photo of the coin and a business card size tag with the name of the coin, the tracking number and the usual tracking instructions.

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