“giga” stands for 1,000,000,000 (i.e. one billion), whereas “nano” is kind of the opposite, one billionth.

giga derived from greek “gigas” = giant. “nano” originally means dwarf.

this geocoin reflects groundspeaks new addition to the cache types. from 2014, every mega event with more that 5000 participants will be a giga event.

so far (until 2020), 8 gigas have taken place (list).

these geocoins are amongst the smallest ones ever made worldwide.

nickel 140pcs
black nickel 90pcs
gold 110pcs
matte gold 30pcs – only with box

extra editions (always for giga events):

nickel/blue
“bavaria”/münchen de (#1, 2014),
le1 80pcs

matte silver/green,
“gutenberg” mainz de (#2, 2015)*:
le2 100pcs

antique copper/white,
xanten de (#3, 2015)*:
le3 100pcs

matte black nickel/glow yellow,
essen de (#4, 2016)*:
le4 80pcs

antique silver/purple,
moravia cz (#5, 2017)*:
le5 80pcs

geowoodstock, oh us (#6, 2018),
>> gold

hamburg de (#7, 2019),
>> black nickel

berlin des (#8, 2019),
>> nickel

prague cz (#9, 2021)*,
planned, 25pcs, plex token

special accessories (only 30 made):
collector box (~77 x 65 x 8 mm) made from plexiglass, trackable, numbered,
incl. ae (30pcs) in matte gold