If someone has mailed/given you a trackable item, or if you have found a trackable item, you will need to virtually “grab it” from its current holder (owner) before placing it in a different geocache.

Log in to Geocaching.com

Navigate to “Trackable Items” (Figure 12)

Enter the tracking code into “Enter the Tracking Number of the Item:” or the enter the item name into “Search for a Trackable Item by Name:”(Figure 13)

Claim the geocoin by clicking on “Found It? Log it!” (Figure 14)

Grab it (the geocoin or travelbug) from the current holder by setting the “Type of Log” to “Grab it from current holder: [name]”.

You must also fill in the “Travel Bug Tracking #” and the Comments field (Figure 15).

Click “Submit log entry” when you’re done.

Congrats! Geocaching.com now recognizes that you physically (and virtually) have this trackable item in your possession. Now you are ready to proceed to the next step: go out and find a geocache, and place the trackable item in the geocache.

After dropping off your geocoin into a geocache, be sure to register your geocoin with that cache so that the movements of the geocoin can be properly catalogued and mapped. For additional information, refer to the Map@syst article entitled "How to Drop Off a Trackable Item."