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| Castle Man wrote: | Here's something I am making now. I will be able to offer these for your activated coins for $1.49 each. This includes engraved tracking numbers. The idea is for your activated coins instead of taking the risk of losing them in the first or second cache. Put the tracking number on one of these Mystery travel dog tags and send it out in the world. If these get lost of stolen you still have your coin home safe with you and you can replace them for just $1.49.......BINGO
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It's a great idea and everything we talked about except it's not a coin the way I imagined. Any chance you can do a round coin version, too using the same methods? I'd love to see a round coin version for coins and a dog tag version to replace missing TB tags.
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Castle Man
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| fox-and-the-hound wrote: | | Castle Man wrote: | Here's something I am making now. I will be able to offer these for your activated coins for $1.49 each. This includes engraved tracking numbers. The idea is for your activated coins instead of taking the risk of losing them in the first or second cache. Put the tracking number on one of these Mystery travel dog tags and send it out in the world. If these get lost of stolen you still have your coin home safe with you and you can replace them for just $1.49.......BINGO
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It's a great idea and everything we talked about except it's not a coin the way I imagined. Any chance you can do a round coin version, too using the same methods? I'd love to see a round coin version for coins and a dog tag version to replace missing TB tags. |
That could also be easy too. I went with this dog tag version first just simply because most newbies recognize the travel bug and i thought it might give more success in keeping them moving |
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fox-and-the-hound
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| Castle Man wrote: | | fox-and-the-hound wrote: | | Castle Man wrote: | Here's something I am making now. I will be able to offer these for your activated coins for $1.49 each. This includes engraved tracking numbers. The idea is for your activated coins instead of taking the risk of losing them in the first or second cache. Put the tracking number on one of these Mystery travel dog tags and send it out in the world. If these get lost of stolen you still have your coin home safe with you and you can replace them for just $1.49.......BINGO
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It's a great idea and everything we talked about except it's not a coin the way I imagined. Any chance you can do a round coin version, too using the same methods? I'd love to see a round coin version for coins and a dog tag version to replace missing TB tags. |
That could also be easy too. I went with this dog tag version first just simply because most newbies recognize the travel bug and i thought it might give more success in keeping them moving |
Cool  So how soon will these be available? Have a couple long-gone coins I'd like to try out with something like this 
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| fox-and-the-hound wrote: | | Castle Man wrote: | | fox-and-the-hound wrote: | | Castle Man wrote: | Here's something I am making now. I will be able to offer these for your activated coins for $1.49 each. This includes engraved tracking numbers. The idea is for your activated coins instead of taking the risk of losing them in the first or second cache. Put the tracking number on one of these Mystery travel dog tags and send it out in the world. If these get lost of stolen you still have your coin home safe with you and you can replace them for just $1.49.......BINGO
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It's a great idea and everything we talked about except it's not a coin the way I imagined. Any chance you can do a round coin version, too using the same methods? I'd love to see a round coin version for coins and a dog tag version to replace missing TB tags. |
That could also be easy too. I went with this dog tag version first just simply because most newbies recognize the travel bug and i thought it might give more success in keeping them moving |
Cool So how soon will these be available? Have a couple long-gone coins I'd like to try out with something like this |
These should arrive at the end of the month |
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Whitby
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| Posted: Mon Aug 11, 2008 5:24 pm Post subject: |
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| Castle Man wrote: | Here's something I am making now. I will be able to offer these for your activated coins for $1.49 each. This includes engraved tracking numbers. The idea is for your activated coins instead of taking the risk of losing them in the first or second cache. Put the tracking number on one of these Mystery travel dog tags and send it out in the world. If these get lost of stolen you still have your coin home safe with you and you can replace them for just $1.49.......BINGO
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I don't know if I like that. I just imagine me at a cache and finding one of those tags instead of a coin. Of course it is a good way to not loose the coin. But the individual character of a coin is lost. One thing I like is that they are so different! Copies at least show the image of the coin. So the only thing I can imagine doing is attaching the tag to a copy.
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007BigD
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I have thought about releasing tag-like objects with the tracking numbers on them, but its really not even a Proxy then. Id say better off for lost TBs.
I kinda got lost inbetween F&H's quality proxys and CMs tags, so will the tags have pics on them???
I like the idea, as its an easy and cheap resort to owning a butt-load of lost coins! Im just afraid people wont dig goin after what was supposed to be a coin and turned out to be a tag, although it'll travel! 
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DaFunkyFrogs
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heyya 007, the tag has a question mark on it, it's like a mystery tag...on the reverse side is a tracking #...when ya enter the #, ya find out what coin ya have discovered..... .
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007BigD
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Kay...nobody steal my idea~ 
What I was hoping to do when I figured all the print/photo stuff was create a Coin Resurrection cache.
Where after a coin has been lost for at least 6 months, cachers could submit their lost coin for resurrection. I would create a card (possibly shaped like a tombstone) with a pic of the OG coin or one like it incorporated with the tombstone, add the OG tracking number, laminate it and send it on its way...Resurrected!!!
The title would have to include "Resurrected" in the coins name. May even try for a higher quality medium than a laminated card, but thats the jist of it.
A little different, but on the same lines in a way.~ Just gotta figure how to create such a template where I could add a pic easily and add some numbers!!!
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007BigD
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Another thing that crossed my mind as I started to read this thread is ~(Kay, hopefully you say "why didnt I think of that" cuz then its feasible...  )
How about getting lower quality materials, such as Aluminum, plastic, or somethin that could be minted in the same mannor of the original coin, in the same press, with the same dies??? Then ya gots the best Proxy around!!!
They could be blank numbered to "release as needed" or as said before with like tracking numbers, so youd get 1 or 2 to accompany the original.
Is it possible to mint in other materials???
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solan109
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| DaFunkyFrogs wrote: | | heyya 007, the tag has a question mark on it, it's like a mystery tag...on the reverse side is a tracking #...when ya enter the #, ya find out what coin ya have discovered..... . |
Sounds strange to me, I want to hold the coin before logging it so I wouldn´t move or discover it, but that's just me |
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fox-and-the-hound
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| Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2008 2:42 pm Post subject: |
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| 007BigD wrote: | Another thing that crossed my mind as I started to read this thread is ~(Kay, hopefully you say "why didnt I think of that" cuz then its feasible... )
How about getting lower quality materials, such as Aluminum, plastic, or somethin that could be minted in the same mannor of the original coin, in the same press, with the same dies??? Then ya gots the best Proxy around!!!
They could be blank numbered to "release as needed" or as said before with like tracking numbers, so youd get 1 or 2 to accompany the original.
Is it possible to mint in other materials??? |
I think the problem with that idea would be that most mints destroy the original dies over time. You'd also need permission for every single coin style. It would likely be cheaper to just buy another coin 
The nice thing about a laser engrave is that even though they're not terribly high quality images (being black/white based) you can at least see what it kinda looked like and it still is a metal coin.
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