The 29,999 Euro Coin

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Owner:: TravelingViking Message this owner
Released:: Saturday, July 3, 2004
Origin:: Germany
Recently Spotted:: Unknown Location

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English: This Geocoin collects stories of failed investments. It is free to travel anywhere where examples of failed investements can be found. If you can, add a story about a bad investment that you were involved with...

Deutsch: Diese Geocoin sammelt Geschichten von schlechten Investitionen. Sie kann ueberall hinreisen wo es Beispiele fuer schlechte Investitionen gibt. Wenn Ihr koennt erzaehlt von einer schlechten Investition mit der Ihr zu tun hattet.

About This Item

English: This Geocoin travels together with a one Euro coin.

A company we were involved with invested 30,000 Euro in another company, that company failed and the remains were sold off after 2 years for 1 Euro.

THIS IS THE ORIGINAL ONE EURO COIN RECEIVED BACK FROM THAT INVESTMENT!

Deutsch: Diese Geocoin reist mit einer ein Euro Muenze.

Eine Firma mit der wir etwas zu tun hatten investierte 30.000 Euro in eine andere Firma. Die Firma hat es nicht so richtig geschafft und die Reste wurden nach zwei Jahren fuer 1 Euro verkauft.

DIES IST DIE ORIGINAL EIN EURO MUENZE DIE VON DER INVESTITION UEBRIGBLIEB!

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1/25/2011	ZROZRO7 discovered it		Visit Log
I don't know about lost investments, but I found a lost geocoin, I think, since it hasn't been logged at all for several years, since 2006. But I am not sure I have the right coin, since no one logged it into the cache and there is no picture or description for it. I will discover it for now, hoping someone will log it in to this cache. I picked it up at the 'Sand Spring Valley T.B. INN', GC1N0P9, cache in Lincoln County, NV, along the ET Hiway.
5/18/2010	palmetto posted a note for it		Visit Log
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2/22/2007	Hawkbit posted a note for it		Visit Log
This is missing from the cache Casuarina equisetifolia... it has been for a while
7/30/2006	geohalf placed it in Casuarina equisetifolia	Florida - 1,106.55 miles	Visit Log
Speaking of lost investments....I almost lost the final euro in the travel bug. Well, all's well with the euro now. It is sunning itself in South Florida! Let us forget AOL, VRGE, CyberCash, PharmaPrint and all the rest of the lead weights that helped me roll into the 2000s with lighter pockets! What a release! Be free black ink!
7/21/2006	geohalf posted a note for it		Visit Log
Thank goodness! An honest waiter at the restaurant SilverMarc and I ate at finally brought the Euro Coin back to us. I will be making my note on this one soon and dropping it into a Miami-based cache.
7/10/2006	SilverMarc posted a note for it		Visit Log
Geohalf knows me very well, and so many times in the past when he promised some shareware app or said he'd do something for me, he had to put up with my annoying "reminders" and "can you do such and such later today" etc. My persistence wasn't only directed toward him... Today when I -again- checked at the restaurant (they already knew what I was asking about from previous visits), the evening man said, "Oh yeah, the box with the Euro! I took it home." He said he'd try to remember to bring it in tomorrow. It's still in its box and with the geocoin as well. --Marc July 10, 2006 @ 7:29 PM N40° 46.565' W073° 58.756'
6/30/2006	geohalf grabbed it		Visit Log
I have some sad news to report. SilverMarc and I are old friends. When I came to NYC for a visit, he gave me this TB and I left it at a restaurant. We are hopeful that it will turn up soon, but if not, I will work with the owner to either replace it or do whatever I can to make things right. Meanwhile, I can add AOL, PharmaSys, Virage and iXL to the list of stock turds I held too long.
6/27/2006	SilverMarc retrieved it from Who are you guys? NYC GC meetup...	New York	Visit Log
Do any of these jog one's memory... Agere Systems, Avaya, Avid, AtHome, Celera, Imation, Iomega, Media 100, Virage... Once in awhile I made some good investments too, but that's a story for another TB! Will move this one along, unless it crashes! --Marc June 27, 2006 @ 8:06 AM N40° 46.565' W073° 58.756'
6/26/2006	Tatanka49 placed it in Who are you guys? NYC GC meetup...	New York - 2,803.57 miles	Visit Log
It didn't start as an investment, but turned out to be a tny one indeed. I was taking a group to a conference in Indiana and put a $200 deposit down on a Greyhound Charter bus. Between the time that we placed the deposit and the time we left, Greyhound went bankrupt. We became a creditor as we were owed the $200. They paid pennies on the dollar and about a year later we received a single share of Greyhound valued at about $2. Since we had almost 400 members in our organization, we considered cutting the share up in as many pieces as a souvenier. We later decided that a $2 stock certificate was a better conversation piece than 400 tiny ones. TB was picked up by Silver Marc--a coin collector from NYC who just returned from Europe. [This entry was edited by Tatanka49 on Monday, June 26, 2006 at 9:08:06 PM.]
6/18/2006	Tatanka49 posted a note for it		Visit Log
I have it safely in my possession and once the cache site is approved, I will officially record it and move it on.
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