What is geokoin?

Geocoin is a popular treasure used in the hobby of treasure hunting called Geocaching. Geocoins are owned by individuals or groups who often suggest coins. Coins can be stamped using trades and coin manufacturers. The coins have a printed tracking number on them, so the original owner and geocachers who find a coin in the future can follow the place of stay through a geocaching website. Personal geocoins may have personal and sentimental meaning - the artistic statement of the owner who suggested it. Although many geokoin is activated for monitoring through the official website, there are also non -resipted geocoins. Geocoin soon followed. September 20, 2001, Moun10bike version 1 Geocoin #002 became the first geocoin to be activated. Until then, Geocachers may have used a different hiding place, but did not scratch coins with serial tracking numbers. Today Geocoins Moun10bike are quite valuable among the Geocaching community, the most valuable is the series version 1. The arrival of GeoCoin helped give birth to other traceable treasures of Geocache.

Trackable geocoins can be activated through various geocaching sites. Many geokoin will display the website to be activated, which makes it easier for people to continue tracking the coin. Due to the rarity and collector's nature of geokoin, many of them disappeared in the hiding place, probably collectors accumulate them than to hand over the hiding places in other places. For this practice, the geocaching community is considered a disturbing hobby.

While traceable geocoins are not to be kept as collecting objects, some owners create geocoins with the intention to pass them on as Collectibles. Some are referred to as non -favorable geocoins. In general, they do not have a serial number for monitoring, although the owner may include one so that future owners can publish their finding. While traceable geocoins are usually made of metal by the manufacturer, paragraphProblem coins are often handmade, using a wider variety of materials such as wood.

There are many companies that specialize in raning and selling monitoring geokoin. Geocachers can either buy a pre -created design or can design their own coin to be made. Costs differ when buying coins from manufacturers. Some coins are very cheap, while others are more valuable for their rarity or special design. The cost of making its own design also varies. Some manufacturers will have an individual's proposal almost free of charge if the artist agrees to allow the company to make a profit from the sale of their design by another Geocachers.