Red Remembrance Poppies Geocoin

Durch mehrere Fehlern sind zwei unterschiedliche Geocoins nun unter einem Coinnamen hinterlegt/
Due to several mistake two different coins are stored behind this coin name.

Korrekt wäre / correct would be

"Red Remembrance Poppies Geocoin" - Icon 1058
"Canadian Red Popper Spy" - Icon 1317

Tatsächlich / reality

beide zeigen/both show: "Red Remembrance Poppies Geocoin" - Icon 1317
- - The Red Remembrance Poppies Geocoin lost its icon #1317 , instead it shows
  - The "Canadian Red Popper Spy" lost its name and is found at groundspeak as "Red Remembrance Poppies Geocoin"

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 Beschreibung/About the coin
- 1.1 Deutsch
- 1.2 English
  - 1.2.1 About the coins
    - 1.2.1.1 Red Remembrance Poppies Geocoin
    - 1.2.1.2 Canadian Red Popper Spy
2 Details
- 2.1 Red Remembrance Poppies Geocoin
- 2.2 Canadian Red Popper Spy
3 Editionen
4 Tags
5 Bilder

Beschreibung/About the coin

Deutsch

Unter diesem Titel gibt es Chaos in der Groundspeak-Datenbank. Um präziser zu sein, unter dieser Coinname sind zwei Geocoins hinterlegt.
Oakcoins.com hat in 2007 das Iconslot Nr. 1058 mit dem Titel "Red Remembrance Poppies Geocoin" und einem Icon Nr. 1058 reserviert,
welches eine Mohnblume zeigte und der Coin nachempfunden war.

Ebenfalls in 2007 hat coinsandpins.com eine Coin namens "Canadian Red Popper Spy" veröffentlicht. Dafür wurde das Icon Nr. 1317 angelegt, das auf der Canadischen Flagge basiert.
Irrtümlicherweise wurde von Groundspeak alle Trackingcode's, der beiden Coins, dem Namen "Red Remembrance Poppies Geocoin" und Icon Nr. 1058 zugeordnet.
Anschließend hat Oakcoins noch 4 Nachbestellungen der "Red Remembrance" unter Icon Nr. 1058 veröffentlicht.

In 2009 beschwerten sich Besitzer der "Canadian Red Popper Spy Coin" darüber, dass ihre Coins das falsche Icon zeige ( statt ).
Woraufhin Coinsandpins Groundspeak kontaktierte.

Ergebnis:

Das Mohnblumen-Icon beim Icon 1058 wurde gelöscht (die Datei 1058.gif gibt es nicht mehr).
Beim Zugriff auf die Icon-ID 1058 wird das coinsandpins-Icon mit der Nummer Nr. 1317 gezeigt.
Zu guter Letzt wurde versäumt, den Namen bei Icon Nr. 1317 angepassen!!

English

At groundspeak datafile a lot of chaos exist on this coin. Actually there is not one but two coins hidden behind this name ID.
In 2007 Oakcoins.com reserved the icon slot #1058 with the title "Red Remembrance Poppies Geocoin" and an own icon #1058 ,
which lookalike the coin and showed a red poppy.

In 2007 coinsandpins.com also released a coin called "Canadian Red Popper Spy" with a own icon #1317 , which is based on the Canadian flag.
By incident of groundspeak all trackingcodes of the "Canadian Red Popper Spy" were assigned to the icon #1058 .
Additional also the four remints of the "Red Remembrance" were assigned to icon #1058 (which was indeed correct).

After complains of several owners of the "Canadian Red Popper Spy Coin" that there coin shows the wrong icon ( instead of ).
Coinsandpins contacted Groundspeak.

The outcome was:

The possy icon at the icon slot #1058 was deleted (the picture 1058.gif doesn't exist anymore).
when contacting ID 1058 the icon #1317 of coinsandpins.com is shown instead.
In the end they even missed to change the name by the icon ID for #1317!!

About the coins

Red Remembrance Poppies Geocoin

During World War I, Red Flanders poppies (Papaver rhoeas) carpeted the fields during battles especially in Flanders.
The little red flowers sprang up in bomb craters, around trenches and often marked soldiers' graves.

Today the red Flanders poppy remains a symbol of war and its heroes.
Many remember their lost friends and family members by wearing a paper poppy pinned to their lapel on November 11th, Veterans Day.

Canadian Red Popper Spy

This coin is made to "commemorate" (if you will) the event that occurred in 2007 when U.S. Army contractors in Canada thought the Canadian Red Poppy quarter was a spy coin.
They suspected the protective coating placed over the colored poppy art was some kind of nano-technology used to spy on the contractors.
They even thought the coins may be emitting radio frequencies. They then reported it to the US Department of Defense,
which caused an alarm to go out that Army contractors with security clearances were being spied on.

You would think it would have been so much easier to ask a store clerk or look up the quarter on the internet instead of going through all the paranoia.

Details