What is a Geocoin?
Geocoin:
A geocoin is a metal coin minted in similar fashion to a medallion, token coin or military challenge coin, for use in geocaching. Geocoins are trackable at geocaching.com using a tracking number that is engraved on the coin.
Geocoins with tracking numbers that have been registered on geocaching.com are said to be “activated”, whereas geocoins that are still unregistered are termed “unactivated”. Activated geocoins that have been left in a cache are meant to be moved from cache to cache, whereas unactivated geocoins may be placed in geocaches to be found by others and kept as trophies. Unactivated coins may be also traded or given to other cachers like a calling card, as prizes, as awards, or merely sold and collected.
View the logs of these activated coins: Tribal Sun Warm & Tribal Sun Cool & ZeeZee the Turtle.
Geocaching:
Geocaching is an outdoor activity in which the participants use a Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver or other navigational techniques to hide and seek containers, called “geocaches” or “caches”, anywhere in the world. A typical cache is a small waterproof container containing a logbook. Larger containers such as plastic storage containers (tupperware or similar) or ammo boxes can also contain items for trading, usually toys or trinkets of little value. Geocaching is most often described as a “game of high-tech hide and seek,” sharing many aspects with benchmarking, trigpointing, orienteering, treasure-hunting, Letterboxing, and waymarking.
Geocaches are currently placed in over 100 countries around the world and on all seven continents, including Antarctica. After 10 years of activity there are over 1.1 million active geocaches published on various websites devoted to the activity.
