January 14th - Rackham's First Geocoin

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As I mentioned yesterday, Rackham and our friend Mekle have started designing their own Geocoins. For anyone not familiar with these things, in Geocaching there are items that can be tracked out at Geocaching.com. They're meant to be placed in caches and found by cachers who then move them on to other caches, usually with a goal in mind (e.g. "visit Antarctica and return to a particular cache" or "visit caches in all 50 States" or something like that). These items can be Travelbugs, which usually have a trackable number on a dogtag meant to be attached to another item or they can be Geocoins, which can have quite elaborate designs. A lot of people actually collect Geocoins and will buy them to keep, not to send out into the world to bounce from cache to cache (and usually disappear eventually when someone decides to keep them instead of logging and moving them).

Road's End Geocoin.

This is the first of their Geocoins to go on sale and was inspired by Roger Zelazny's Chronicles of Amber series. I took this photo using the little portable photo studio I mentioned in the last entry... and had Rackham hold it so you could get an idea of the size of these things. They have quite a bit of heft!

Here's the front:


And here's the back (with a representation of the Pattern):