But doesn't Mr. Tata beat Kermit the Frog by 9 months as well?

On 9/11/06, Bob Renner <renner001@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> I guess the first true Travel Bug was Kermit the Frog
> (TB18).  He was first placed by Jeremy on Sept. 5,
> 2001 before he officially anounced the Travel Bug
> tags.  He spent all his travels here in Arizona, and
> has not been seen since Jan. 21, 2003.
>
> Bob
>
> --- Jake Olson < jake.teamai@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Actually... according to AZgeocaching.com's link to
> > the Mr. Tata Head's
> > Adventures link, his adventures started 01-01-2001,
> > and Moun10Bike's own
> > page lists his first release of a Moun10Bike coin as
> > September 30, 2001.
> > That's pretty much 10 months difference between the
> > two starting dates.  The
> > only true difference is that the Moun10Bike coin was
> > given special tracking
> > status on GC.com due to Moun10Bike's friendship with
> > Jeremy.  The Moun10Bike
> > coins came out about the same time as Jeremy got the
> > idea for trackable
> > dogtags to be added to the sport.  As a gesture of
> > thanks for the support
> > Moun10Bike had given to the start of the
> > Geocaching.com site, he was given a
> > special icon and his coins were made trackable on
> > the site.
> >
> > http://www.azgeocaching.com/mrtata/mrtata.html
> >
> > http://www.switchbacks.com/gc_geocoins.html
> >
> > If it were a closer time frame it could be in
> > dispute, but 10 months is
> > quite a gap in time for the coins to go through the
> > minting process.
> >
> > Jake - Team A.I.
> >
>
>
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