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Geocoin Club Coins - A Legacy of Great Design
The Geocoin Club, LLC has minted over 100,000 collectible and high quality Geocoins between our Geocoin Club issues, The Geocoin Store, The Signal Geocoin Series, and other coins we have been involved with. We have safely packaged and delivered over 8000 individual orders to our customers. We are the oldest and largest monthly issue club in existence and continue to grow and improve our club's offerings at no additional charge. Starting in April, 2006 each monthly issue coin will have its own icon for your profile on GC.com. In addition, each coin is delivered to you in a custom-printed protective sleeve with code retrieval instructions and an area to write the code with a ballpoint pen to make trading or selling your club coins easier. Starting in January, 2007 each monthly coin issued is accompanied by a Pathtag which reflects the coin's design.
2007 Issues
January, 2007 | 
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Following in the footsteps of the January 2006 Geocoin, we wanted to design a coin that could actually be used. The January 2007 coin is calibrated to be used as a distance finder. If you hold the coin 12 inches from your face and align it with the horizon, a mark in the viewfinder will show you where 528 feet should be. This is the minimum distance allowed between two Geocaching by the Geocaching.com guidelines.
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February, 2007 | 
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Need help convincing friends to go caching with you? Does your family wonder why you are so obsessed with caching? Well... just have them stare deep into the eyes of this guy. The bright shine and swirl pattern will speak to them and they WILL go caching... they WILL go caching... Results may vary.
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March, 2007 | 
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March's coin celebrates all the new cachers you start seeing logs for in Jan/Feb/Mar. This tounge in cheek tribute to our new bretheren highlights the no hides, no finds crowd. Shiny silver finish, imitation hard enamel, and lots of great color!
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April, 2007 | 
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April is a tip of the hat to the season for Meet and Greets! Spring is upon us, new cachers abound, and it's CITO time!
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May, 2007 | 
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Ready or not - here summer comes! At least in the northern hemisphere. Get ready, go out and hide and find those caches!
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June, 2007 | 
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Ouch! Has this ever happened to you? Of course it has! Everyone knows the shortest path to a cache is a straight line... but it's almost never the easiest. The easiest is the path you take BACK to your car! :)
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July, 2007 | 
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"The Spy Geocoin" - Mystery awaits you with this Geocoin! One of the thickest Geocoins ever made, this coin contains a special suprise for the owner. A great design gives the "mystery geocoin" a special mystique and inside, safe in a little compartment, is a special Pathtag.
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August, 2007 | 
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Our second anniversary coin was made a little special. This coin is 2 inches round with miniature icons of every coin from the past year. The design also features a see-through "sun catcher" feature for the spaces between the icons and the letters "GCC".
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September, 2007 | 
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Fall into caching! September's coin marks the inevitible passage from summer to fall. The bright sun of summer is replaced with the glowing moon of autumn in this coin's main scenes.
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2006 Issues
January, 2006 | 
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Now here's a coin that could come in handy. This coin works as a ROT13 decryption tool. For those "new" cachers - ROT13 is what the hints on Geocaching.com are encrypted using. Nowadays with the advent of Paperless caching, noone can "speak" ROT13 any more. But we can still read it on a printed cache sheet. Well... we used to be able to anyway :) For those who can't - here's a coin for you.
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February, 2006 | 
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Remember "locationless" geocaching? If you started after 2005, you might not! Once upon a time, Geocaching.com had a category for "Locationless" geocaching. Rather than listing a specific coordinate to seek, the "hider" would list a target to find. Then you would post the coordinates where you found one of those things. One of the most famous of these Locationless or "Reverse Virtual" caches was the Yellow Jeep. In 2005 Locationless caches were suspended in favor of listing these kinds of things at Waymarking.com. This coin commemorates the end of the era for Locationless caches. Known by its tagline "Ghosts of Caching Past", you will see the ghostly images of many of the other most famous Locationless caches appear on the white side when you hold this coin under a blue light.
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March, 2006 | 
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This coin was our first experiment with subscriber influenced design. We asked all subscribers to submit log entries and/or photos as possible topics for the March coin. We received many but one stood out to us. The image of a family walking together and wearing orange in the woods. They were Cache Hunters! The front shows the family, the reverse an excerpt from their log of the cache. This was a submission by the Dressel Dragons. For their effort they received a solid silver (real silver, yes!) version of this coin for their collection. Here is how the coin was transformed from log photo to coin:
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April, 2006 | 
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Ah spring! Two things that April usually mean. The return of flowers (toward the end maybe) and CITO month! This coin is a tribute to both the returning greenery and the month of cleaning up our playground. The front is a stained glass window of a cache hidden in a flower patch. The reverse commemorates CITO month. This coin is also important in Geocoin Club history in that it was the first design not drawn by Rusty. This was the first entry onto the scene by an independant artist. Starting at this point you will notice the relatively frequent contributions from other Geocoin artists.
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May, 2006 | 
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This 1.5 inch coin is encased in a plastic coin box for added protection. The coin was done using a proofing process and is the most expensive coin we've produced to date.
The coin commemorates the 6th birthday of Geocaching in a unique way. It incorporates some of the Masonic symbols which were recently popularized by The Davinci Code.
The coin depicts an adaptation of the Great Seal of The United State - a tiered pyramid made of ammo cans with an unfinished peak. This represents the progress over the last 6 years and the work still left to do with Geocaching. |
June, 2006 | 
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We felt that Geocaching is the pearl of the outdoor activity world. Or at least one of the pearls! :) So this month features an oyster opening to reveal a suprising pearl. We've never heard of a cache hidden like this... but it would be cool!
In addition to the coin this month, we included a pin. It is a mini version of the front side of the coin.
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July, 2006 | 
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Unofficially titled "Pick your Poison" this coin commemorates the rise of the summertime menaces. Poison ivy and Mosquitos can put a real damper on a day of caching. Each side shows one of these menaces in great 3D relief and includes some translations for them. This is to help you recognize them in any language! As some of our international subscribers pointed out - they have different menaces to deal with. Maybe next July we'll commemorate some of the more exotic menaces that our subscribers have to suffer to put their name in a log book!
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August, 2006 | 
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Almost everyone of legal age to responsibly do so has visited the "Last Cache" with friends after a great day of caching or during a great event. Summer seemed a particularly good time to offer up a coin featuring a frosty mug of lemonade! Designed by Chris Mackey (aka fox-and-the-hound) this fun coin is done in the style of a wooden cask or keg with a mug of frosty brew. It could be a beer for the adults among us but kids - for you... it's Lemonade!
Also this month, to celebrate the first anniversary of our first issue in The Geocoin Club, we released an additional "freebie" to all club members in August 2006. This gold "GCC" coin lists all 12 coin issues for the year and is also tied to a contest. The coin with the most interesting life will be chosen in August 2007 and the winner awarded $300 cash. A random cacher from the list of people who helped that coin along will be chosen for a free one year premium membership to Geocaching.com
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September, 2006 | 
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Ever have this feeling? Standing at the top of a mountain, overlooking a great view. Fresh air in your nose. Then you think about a friend who isn't there and how they would love it. Yeah - us too. We loved this design when Madhatter presented it and are happy to make it our September 2006 design.
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October, 2006 | 
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Rar! Here's a monster of a coin! Designed by Chris Mackey after brainstorming "why wasn't there caching in the middle ages?". Well - the dragons were hoarding all the caches of course! One of the most popular designs in our club history it features a great 3D dragon hoarding a pile of caches. The dragon's booty is encased in tranparent jade green enamel. The knotwork on the reverse adds to the exotic quality of the coin.
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November, 2006 | 
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"It's just a game!" And here's a coin to remind us! Ever take your caching addiction too seriously? I know I have. Here's a fun coin designed to look similar to a certain board game we all know and (might) love.
Caching is a worldwide game, accessible to almost anyone who wants to try it. Not only is it affordable for most people - it's playable almost anywhere. This coin commemorates the text from the front of the GC.com homepage around the time of its design. You can check the front page and see we've already blown that number away! The game is growing!
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December, 2006 | 
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In late 2006 Rusty and Mike were exposed to the art of the Pacific Northwest Native Americans and fell in love. As we each studied the art for non-coin related reasons we thought it would make a great style for a Geocoin. Rusty found a particularly interesting piece of legend which explained the solstice. In the legend a dolphin or fish would each the sun and 6 months of dark would ensue. It would then come and eat the dark and there would be six months of light. We felt this was a great subject for the month with the winter solstice in it.
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2005 Issues
August, 2005 | 
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The first official release from the Geocoin Club celebrated the "First To Find Dance". The legendary dance every first finder is obliged to perform when they score an "FTF". The design was derived from an actual cache log photo of a family doing the dance. The GC code of their FTF cache is tucked into the design.
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September, 2005 | 
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It's what made Geocaching possible. On May 1, 2000 "Selective Availabilty" was turned off on the GPS system. This improved the accuracy of consumer GPS units enough to make Geocaching possible. Shortly after, the first Geocache (Geostash) was hidden. The rest is history!
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October, 2005 | 
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Take a good long look you younguns - this is what caching used to be all about. Big, green, full, metal, waterproof, ammo cans. And lots of 'em. They were bought up en masse. Someone we know even got into the practice of buying 100 or more of these at a time and then bringing them to events to sell them at their cost. Just to get more ammo cans out there! To us, this will always be the first and arguably the best caching container ever widely used and loved. These days our green giants are giving way to less opaque options like lock'n'lock and tupperware but we still have a special place in our hearts for these guys.
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November, 2005 | 
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A benchmark Geocoin? Who ever heard of such a thing??? Well - nobody until we produced this hall of famer. Domed on one side and termed similar to an actual benchmark it was the first trackable Geocoin in the shape of a benchmark. The reverse features a great 3D rendition of a surveyor tool.
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December, 2005 | 
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Affectionately know by us as "Old Man Winter" the December 2005 coin was all about the deep freeze. And winter caching. Getting out there when the snow coats the trees and ground and find that 1/1 after it's turned into a 3/3 :) Old Man Winter makes winter caching fun and makes every cache just a little more challenging. We love winter caching and while we know many live in warmer climes and haven't had the experience - we still highly reccommend it. Come up to our neck of the north and give it a try sometime!
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2005 New Subscriber Coin | 
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This coin was received by every new member in the Geocoin Club until February 2006. After a few months of operation it became easier to predict how many coins we would need month to month, resulting in a natural lack of surplus without the New Subscriber coin. We have always endeavored to produce exactly what is needed by our subscriber base and then a small surplus for replacements. This small surplus is available for purchase by subscribers only in The Geocoin Store. You will get the password for the "MOS" each month in your coin packet.
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