Help - Respectful Thing to do with Geocoin Find?
Got this coin from a yard sale. I’ve geocached in the past but I haven’t done so in a long while. Upon looking it up I discovered that it only had 1 log, way back in 2008. The person who logged it seemed to be a very prolific geocacher, with over 12,000 finds since 2003! I believe this person may have died, as the person at the yard sale said they got it from an estate sale that seemed to have been an after death sale. The person also hasn’t been on since 2020.
To me, this seems like it was a sentimental coin for the person as it hadn’t moved at all since the 2008 log. They had plenty of other trackables that did move. I don’t know how I would get in contact with whoever owned it originally (or their family) since it has changed so many hands at this point. My instinct is to put it in a cache for it to travel but I’m not certain if this would be disrespectful. Again, I’m not very well versed in geocache etiquette 😅
Any thoughts would be appreciated!
EDIT: I did some more digging into this person and it seems like they were SUPER active in the Geocaching community back in 2008. They attended GeoWoodstock VI and posted some pictures of themselves so I’m going to post in my local area and see if anyone knows who this is. I really want to make a good faith effort at finding someone who knows the history of this coin and the person who owned it