{"id":276,"date":"2007-02-18T16:53:46","date_gmt":"2007-02-18T16:53:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alananna.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/collecting-geocoins\/"},"modified":"2007-02-18T16:53:46","modified_gmt":"2007-02-18T16:53:46","slug":"collecting-geocoins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/02\/collecting-geocoins\/","title":{"rendered":"Collecting Geocoins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"imagelink\" href=\"https:\/\/alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/02\/coin.JPG\" title=\"dream catcher geocoin\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image275\" src=\"https:\/\/alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/02\/coin.thumbnail.JPG\" alt=\"dream catcher geocoin\" \/><\/a>I wasn&#8217;t really &#8216;THAT&#8217; into collecting geocoins, although some of them really are little works of art. If I found one in a geocache I did take it and move it on and log it on the geocaching website, and I do like having the little icons I get for my troubles. Some people take this to a different level though and have huge collections of them that they carry around with them for other people to &#8216;discover&#8217;. The Dancing Samurai&#8217;s and Red kite who we met yesterday had quite a few coins with them so we took a look through them and I have now logged them on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geocaching.com\/profile\/?guid=5e7ed169-0703-4c99-931f-21babe034c0a\">my geocaching profile<\/a>..<\/p>\n<p>All of a sudden I have 36 trackable items listed&#8230; A mere drop in the ocean! <\/p>\n<p>Some of them are nice though, I think my favourites so far have to be the Dressel Dragons geocoin that I released recently and the Compass Rose geocoins that I discovered yesterday. 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