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LegendaryActivity: 1792Merit: 1000 Re: [FOR SALE] Series 1, 1 BTC Casascius Bitcoins April 05, 2013, 06:41:35 PM #6 Quote from: SgtSpike on April 05, 2013, 06:30:11 PM I'd give you 3 BTC for each of them (qty 1-3), no questions asked.



Questions asked, maybe more.



- What kind of condition are these in?

- Did you ever touch them with your bare hands?

- Where/how have they been stored?

- Are you the original owner?

- Do they have any visible tarnish on the backside?



- I would say they are in very good condition.

- I have touched them on occasion.

- They have been stored in the original package they came in, in a drawer in my room.

- I am the original owner of two - the other I won in a competition on this forum.

- I cannot see any visible tarnish.



- I would say they are in very good condition.- I have touched them on occasion.- They have been stored in the original package they came in, in a drawer in my room.- I am the original owner of two - the other I won in a competition on this forum.- I cannot see any visible tarnish.

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Mike CaldwellVIPLegendaryActivity: 1386Merit: 1062The Casascius 1oz 10BTC Silver Round (w/ Gold B) Re: [FOR SALE] Series 1, 1 BTC Casascius Coins April 05, 2013, 10:24:38 PM

Last edit: April 05, 2013, 10:41:07 PM by casascius #15 I am blown away to see my earliest coins going for that much. It's crazy. Had I ever known...



With very few exceptions I gave away most of my early coins to people at work, I was giving them out like candy, what iwth BTC being $2 and all. So, those lucky ducks, if they still have them, have a prize.



I suppose if people are taking collecting my coins seriously, I might as well point out that the series 1 coins were made and distributed in prefix order, with 11xxxxxx being the first, 12xxxxxxx being next, etc. The lower the number, the earlier the coin.



There are two specific coins I can think of that might garner peculiar interest for rarity, if any of my coins could be described that way.



I only kept one coin from the earliest batches. I kept one whose prefix was "13kpu33y". I funded it in 2011, but decided not to give away becuase when I looked at it, and the way the font looks, it appeared to me like the coin said "13k pussy". Since these were coins I was giving away to promote bitcoin, I subconsciously set it aside because I wanted to foster discussion of bitcoin, not middle school locker room jokes. Had I not funded, I probably would have just ripped it open and thrown it in my "rejects" pile. So, that said, that's the only genuine original untouched funded-in-2011 coin I managed to keep. Even though it would be sweet to see four figures for it, I doubt I'll sell it.



There were two prototype coins I made out of the pre-production coin samples before I got the Casascius holograms. The prototype coins had a generic hologram, had a greenish solidified lacquer layer covering that hologram (since I was experimenting with spray coatings I ultimately decided not to do). Inside the lacquer layer I embedded a second outer paper circle with 8 character prefix, split on two lines of four. Of those four prototype coins, I funded only one of them so I could give it away. I don't know who I gave it to, but I know who of several people who possibly might have it. I suppose that's the only one that can be proven to have existed at the time having timely funding on the block chain. The coin is fully functional. I have the other one, but I don't think I ever funded it. Matters little, cause I'm not about to sell it either.



I have had people contact me to find out when their coin was minted, as though to evaluate its value. Just look it up on the block chain. I always fund the address after creating the coin (it would be stupid to do otherwise in case the coin ends up being a reject for whatever reason) so it is easy to establish a coin was minted prior to the date the block chain shows it was funded.

Companies claiming they got hacked and lost your coins sounds like fraud so perfect it could be called fashionable. I never believe them. If I ever experience the misfortune of a real intrusion, I declare I have been honest about the way I have managed the keys in Casascius Coins. I maintain no ability to recover or reproduce the keys, not even under limitless duress or total intrusion. Remember that trusting strangers with your coins without any recourse is, as a matter of principle, not a best practice. Don't keep coins online. Use paper or hardware wallets instead.

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Mike CaldwellVIPLegendaryActivity: 1386Merit: 1062The Casascius 1oz 10BTC Silver Round (w/ Gold B) Re: [FOR SALE] Series 1, 1 BTC Casascius Coins April 06, 2013, 12:46:58 AM #19 Quote from: PachucoBro on April 05, 2013, 10:28:13 PM



EDIT: No insult intended to the creator... they are cool coins. Wish I could afford to get one for my teenage son as a B-Day gift.

Can you say Beanie Babies?EDIT: No insult intended to the creator... they are cool coins. Wish I could afford to get one for my teenage son as a B-Day gift.

No offense taken. Casascius Coins weren't made as a marketing gimmick to prop up their own value, if anything they were a teaching gimmick to teach people about bitcoin. It's very flattering to have accidentally created something that's even comparable to Beanie Babies in terms of attention and people wanting it. Now I feel like I better glue my Bitcoin license plate to my car before it disappears.





No offense taken. Casascius Coins weren't made as a marketing gimmick to prop up their own value, if anything they were a teaching gimmick to teach people about bitcoin. It's very flattering to have accidentally created something that's even comparable to Beanie Babies in terms of attention and people wanting it. Now I feel like I better glue my Bitcoin license plate to my car before it disappears. Companies claiming they got hacked and lost your coins sounds like fraud so perfect it could be called fashionable. I never believe them. If I ever experience the misfortune of a real intrusion, I declare I have been honest about the way I have managed the keys in Casascius Coins. I maintain no ability to recover or reproduce the keys, not even under limitless duress or total intrusion. Remember that trusting strangers with your coins without any recourse is, as a matter of principle, not a best practice. Don't keep coins online. Use paper or hardware wallets instead.