Geocoin Club Anniversary Edition

To Travel all over to do extraordinary things, visit exotic places and hopefully win the contest.

First Anniversary Geocoin Contest!
In August, 2006 The Geocoin Club released its 12th consecutive monthly issue completing our first full year of operation. To celebrate, we made a special first anniversary coin.
The coin is trackable on Geocaching.com with its own icon and was given as a special bonus to all Geocoin Club members subscribed as of July 31, 2006.

When it's all said and done, approximately 2000 of these Anniversary coins will have been given away or sold to our club members through our Members Only Store.

Besides being a cool memento of a year of successful coin issues - the coin is part of a contest we are sponsoring. When we thought "What can we do for our birthday?" we decided we wanted to run one of largest (if not the largest) mass Geocoin experiments ever. By gifting or selling at a minimal cost 2000 coins, we felt we would give them a chance to do what Geocoins were originally intended to do and so often miss out on these days - get out and see the world.

The Prize!
EACH coin is an entry into our contest. In August 2007 we will award a $300 cash prize to the owner of the winning coin and someone on the list of people who helped it along will be selected at random for an "assist" prize of a free 1 year premium Geocaching.com membership or an extension of their existing membership. And note the bold mark - the owner of the coin is eligible to win. So while these coins are available only to Geocoin Club members, anyone can win. Anyone who gets a coin through a trade, purchase, or otherwise becomes eligible for the grand prize.

The Rules

The rules are - there are no rules! Seriously! Rather than set a hard and fast winning criteria we have opted instead to leave the final decision entirely to our discretion. Whatever we find to be the most interesting or entertaining coin of the year will be the winner. What makes them interesting? Who knows! We'll be watching 2000 coins! The breadth of the project goes beyond anything we've been part of before and we're not really sure what we'll see! How many will be released to travel? How many of those will survive the year? Will we be most impressed by distance traveled? People met? Places visited? Can you get your coin into a museum? Maybe it'll be a coin that meets its demise in a unique and memorable way.
This is a chance for all of us to really see what cool stuff a coin can experience if let go. So - don't hold on to the coins. Get them out there, get them travelling. And while we'll be watching - 2000 is a lot of coins to watch effectively. If you think your coin has done something phenomenal - be sure to email us at contest@geocoinclub.com