About a month ago I spotted a new thread in the Geocoin Discussions thread on the Groundspeak Forums. Since I just started trading geocoins in January, my curiousity was piqued by the thread title: 3rd International Math Trade starting now! Unlike a typical geocoin trade, when you negotiate one-on-one with the other party to the …
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Personal Geocoin Progress
Old Man Winter seems especially reluctant to leave Calgary this year, so we've enjoyed his company (and fresh snow fall) every day for the past week (until today). With so much white stuff providing extra camo/cover for geocaches, we haven't been out collecting many "found its" lately. Mr. GeoK did make it to GC1B3KP "Pizza and Beer" on …
Personal Geocoin
After scribbling, sketching, googling, thinking, discussing and revising, we finally landed on solid design concepts for our first personal geocoin. Since Mr. and Mrs. GeoK aren't very artistic, we noted all our thoughts down in a detailed e-mail and sent it off to our chosen geocoin producer, Landsharkz. We're waiting to hear their feedback and then we'll …
Geocoins Trading Newbies
Last week, Mrs. GeoK finally got all of our "keepers", "traders" and "seekers" listed on Geocoin Collecting & Trading Gallery. We didn't know whether that would do anything more than give us an online tool for keeping track of our ever-growing geocoin collection, so we were surprised when, within a few days of finishing the …
Time to tame the geocoin madness
It happens every 6 or 8 weeks...geocoins have been arriving, sometimes just one, but usually a few at a time... Eventually, the small cardboard box that sits on the corner of my desk gets so full that I can't ignore it anymore. And then I spend a good part of the day sorting through them, …