My Traveling 2 Cents Geocoin BIG WORLD FAMOUS Germany Bert Wooden Nickel #00310

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Released:
Sunday, November 18, 2012
Origin:
Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany
Recently Spotted:
Unknown Location

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Congratulations!  You have found one of the WORLD FAMOUS Germany Bert Wooden Nickel Travel Bugs!!  My mission is simple....to move from cache to cache as quickly as possible.

Please do not keep me since I want to travel far and wide!

If the wooden nickel on this travel bug is missing please contact my owner for a replacement.


Wooden Nickels are part of American history.  If an American says to you, "Don't take any wooden nickles", what they mean is be careful of someone trying to rip you off by giving you something worthless.

Wooden Nickels though are not always worthless.  In the USA they are sometimes given away as a promotion for a product and the wooden nickel is used as a discount coupon.

Wooden nickels have also been used as real money in the USA for short periods of time.

You can find find more information here - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wooden_nickel. 

A Nickel in the USA is worth 5 Cents.  

Prior to introduction of the nickel, five-cent pieces were very small silver coins called half dimes. Due to shortages of silver both during and after the American Civil War, an alternative metal was needed for five-cent coinage, and the copper–nickel alloy still in use today was selected. Numerous problems plagued the coinage of nickels through the middle of the 20th century due to the extreme hardness of the alloy, but modern minting equipment has proven more than adequate for the task.

Nickels have always had a value of one cent per gram (even when special nickel-free versions were issued temporarily during World War II). They were designed as 5 grams in the metric units when they were introduced in 1866, shortly before the Metric Act of 1866 declared the metric system to be legal for use in the United States.

Applying the term "nickel" to a coin precedes the usage of five-cent pieces made from nickel alloy. The term was originally applied to the 1857–1858 Flying Eagle cent and the Indian Head cent coin from 1859 to 1864, which were composed of 12% nickel, 88% copper. Throughout the Civil War these cents were referred to as "nickels" or "nicks" from their metal content. When the three-cent nickel came onto the scene in 1865, the first coin to raise nickel content to the modern 25%, these were the new "nickels" to the common person on the street. In 1866, the Shield nickel was introduced and forever changed the way Americans associated coins made from nickel alloy with a particular denomination. Save for alloy changes during World War II, nickel coins from 1866 to the present have been composed of 25% nickel, 75% copper. - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nickel_(United_States_coin)

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    Tracking History (18878.9mi) View Map

    Discovered It 6/12/2015 Luzifersangel discovered it   Visit Log

    Während der Hitzewelle hatte ich endlich mal Zeit meine ganzen Cachefotos die ich im laufe der Zeit von Coins und Tbs gemacht habe, auf Events in Logbüchern oder irgendwo in Caches, zu sortieren. Und habe festgestellt das es jede Menge sind die ich im laufe Zeit gesehen habe aber nie zum loggen kam, das hole ich heute nach. Danke fürs zeigen sagt Luzifersangel und sorry für das späte loggen
    Dropped Off 12/2/2014 zeepia placed it in Wagga Travel Bug Highway New South Wales, Australia - 10,179.18 miles  Visit Log
    Visited 12/2/2014 zeepia took it to Woof Woof New South Wales, Australia - 61.34 miles  Visit Log
    Visited 12/1/2014 zeepia took it to Northside Drive By Australian Capital Territory, Australia - 192.59 miles  Visit Log
    Visited 11/30/2014 zeepia took it to TwoHand Alphabet #2 New South Wales, Australia - 441.13 miles  Visit Log
    Visited 11/27/2014 zeepia took it to Castle Wing Queensland, Australia - 649.41 miles  Visit Log
    • Almost at the top of the World! I forgot to take pictures at top of Mount Tibrogargan so this has to do :)
    Visited 11/25/2014 zeepia took it to julago cache Queensland, Australia - 181.97 miles  Visit Log
    Visited 11/22/2014 zeepia took it to Step back in time on Spence Queensland, Australia - 9,174.52 miles  Visit Log
    Retrieve It from a Cache 11/21/2014 zeepia retrieved it from City Series - Bats Bats Bats Queensland, Australia   Visit Log

    Picked up this TB and will leave it in another Australian cache in a few weeks.
    Dropped Off 11/20/2014 TMoo placed it in City Series - Bats Bats Bats Queensland, Australia - 2,406.51 miles  Visit Log

    It travelled with us for a couple of thousand kilometers. Now it is time to move on!
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