Showing unactivated coins

[dannable]

I'm thinking of taking some of my trading coins along to a local meeting. The thing that crosses my mind is that as they are unactivated someone could note the coin number and activate it themselves and I would be none the wiser. The only time it would be discovered is if someone who traded for it tried to activate it.

How do other cachers / coin collectors / magpies deal with this?

Toodle pip!

dannable

[gazooks]

I thought most required a password as well as the number ? :confused: to activate.

[dannable]

You can (normally) get the activation codes online if you know who made the coin.

[Bill D (wwh)]

dannable wrote: You can (normally) get the activation codes online if you know who made the coin.

Hmm, if that's correct (and I'm not suggesting it isn't) then that seems to me to be a rather serious flaw in the system.

[studlyone]

You can (normally) get the activation codes online if you know who made the coin.Most activation code retreival sites (inlcuding my own) will only let you retrieve the code once.

So just retrieve the code yourself - writting it down and securing it is a safe place for future reference. That way no-one can activate the coin.

If you decide to sell or swap the coin at a later date you can include the activation code that you retreived earlier.

Ian:beer:

[dannable]

Thanks Ian, I had a feeling you'd know!

[studlyone]

Thanks Ian, I had a feeling you'd know!
No problem.
Ian