Topic: List of physical cryptocurrencys and the mints who issue them (Read 15054 times)

I was excited to have my coins included on the list when it was made.  It definitely felt like a bit of a turning point at the time.

Thats correct.    Elias started doing a Casascius-only online version, then I believe started considering doing a comprehensive physical book in April '15.  I believe I joined the project a year later.   But it still took a while until the Encyclopedia was published.

This list is also what got me started in collecting physical bitcoins.   I owe my thanks to the OP.

This list predates the Encyclopedia of Physical Bitcoins and Crypto-Currencies if I'm not mistaken.

Your right, not a replacement for the excellent book by Elias, but it does mention Bitbills which were the very first before Casascius.

I know Elias will be adding Bitbills to his new updated Encyclopedia in the near future.

Interesting list thanks. Not a replacement for the Encyclopedia of Physical Bitcoins and Crypto-Currencies though.

I'm selling an Antaui Silver on eBay.  More details about it here on BTT:  At some point, I might post my recollections of that time.  Feel free to follow the thread.  I'll post more info closer to the end of the sale.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3119210.new#new

Hi all! Thought I’d share our coin to the list as well. Some on this forum have already purchased and waiting their dleivery now. It’s a buyer funded coin, gold plated (not solid gold) and it’s the only coin on the market with 2FA security password. So if it’s lost or stolen, it can’t be used without your password.
 
More info can be found at coldcoinbitcoin.com

Thank you. Trying to find the mintage #s.

Can anyone tell me more about the Casascius BTC – Loadable gold plated bar, 80mm x 40mm x 6mm, [n] minted, series 2 sticker stating "ZERO BTC"?

Some new coins.  There are also 30,000 NastyFans seats instead of 25,000.


2oz .999 Silver NastyFans Minted Seat Coin
250 Minted (25 available w/ gold highlighting)
2 Seats
Proof-like Finish
47mm Diameter



5oz .999 Silver NastyFans Minted Seat Coin
100 Minted
5 Seats
Proof-like Finish
2.5" Diameter

Good to see you back on this thread...No_2.  This list was my inspiration for getting started in collecting cryptos.

Here's my list as mentioned above.  Its mostly up-to-date.  

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/wtb-lesser-known-physical-crypto-coins-paper-wallets-1052189

Also elianite is publishing an encyclopedia that should be ready soon that will have almost all mints in pictures, descriptions and specs.  I'm providing assistance with it.  

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/paperback-encyclopedia-of-physical-bitcoins-and-crypto-currencies-1022071

I'm going to try update the list here at some point so if anyone wants to update or add to the list of existing mints please can you post them to the thread and I'll get them added when I have a mo. Over the last year or so there have been lots of new mints popping up and I've not been able to keep track of all of them.

Even better if you have good quality photos of the coins, bars etc please post them here and I'll get them added.

WOW!  never knew there were so many , i personally love the design of Casascius 25 BTC and Casascius aluminium quarter is best.
Though it's astounding to see those 1000 n 10,000 BTC Gold and Platinum bar , who buys them ? :-/ People certainly do but still....

Anyways thanks for the info and  list of Really good physical BTC
 

Really great list!

Physical cryptocurrency is fun to collect and  if they are made from real gold and silver, could become highly desirable in the future.

I know of a website that has just launched that is making cryptogift coins.

http://www.cryptogifts.io/

 Some great designs and very good prices also.

Outstanding list No 2, thanks

Here's some I grabbed real quick from a couple for sale threads.

Bump: Does anyone have any scans or photos of the gold edged casascius 1BTC and 0.5BTC silver coins?

personally, i think this list is pretty cool. but physical crypto currency is not accepted to trade in real market, which is the process we should go through

I regularly refer to this list when looking up info on physical crypto-coins.  Thought I'd give it a well deserved bump.

Hi, you are doing an excellent work with your post of physical coins, so i would like if you can link to our design of coins we made as "proof of design" until we improve it.

Here give you link to original posts and a couple of photos i did take with my phone:

Serie 1 Gold Plated coin: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/closed-new-010-btc-physical-bhcoin-non-casascius-brass-coin-292223
http://s21.postimg.org/8l93ix1qv/IMG_0364.jpg

Serie 2 Silver Plated coin: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.3551411
http://s22.postimg.org/ndhfxjmn5/IMG_0339.jpg


We made 100 of each of them.

Nice info! thanks.

I would but it does not store any BTC or cryptocurrency value.

Love the video on the site, their list of 28 items about Bitcoin:


Wrong... Bitcoin is the monetisation of proof of work.

I feel like a broken record; people keep saying this and it shows they've not done their homework. Doesn't strike me as a good foundation for the other 27 arguments they want to build from this first point.

Awesome list No_2!

I will be adding it with pictures to Coinosphere.

That's a great list. Bookmarked.

edit: I think you should add this one too
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=463937.0;topicseen

Added:

ANXBTC:

2014

0.0014BTC – Red pocket redeemable voucher, 50,000 minted. All valid until 4th Feb 2014 12am [A].

Added images of a 0.5 silver with a series 2 back. Does anyone have scans of a 10BTC silver casascius coin back and front?

We're going to need one of the plain silver and one of the gold plated one if anyone has them.

Awsome list !

Is there a more canonical dataset (that is easily human readable) than the two tracker sites? This listing is concerned with the coins that were minted, not with how many remain.

Did you mention having plans to make all the PDFs/images of your scanned coins publicly downloadable? I wanted to try get some images from your site too if you have.

Missed this.  Good stuff No. 2.

Thank you for this!

I really like your list, and give a thumbs up to the pics!

To bad about what happened to Casascius, one of my favorite minters. (By that I mean the feds, and that stuff.)

Keep up the good work!  

p.s. I personally wish that all altcoins had a physical coin, for collecting purposes, and are all of the mints on this list still active? like bitbills for example? (sorry that this is dragging on...)

Thanks; have originals for those so can fix that no problem. Must just have left two of the 0.5 backs in by mistake. Will fix shortly.

nice list!
one small mistake: the photo of the backside of the 1BTC Casascius silver shows the 0.5 BTC coin

Does anyone have the front and back scans of a series 2 casascius 1BTC coin dated 2011? I could make a set of images up but would prefer to use a back with actual public key that's correct for that coin type.

Great collection of photos!  Nice work!

My best explanation as to why there would be discrepancies in the two tracker sites has to do with the following:

1. I understand they scrape data from other sites and may not do it consistently, there could be bugs.
2. Although it's simple and straightforward to monitor an address for 1BTC to appear ("funded") and then to disappear ("spent"), there is likely to be differences between the way the two sites interpret balances on self-funded bars, the "roll-your-own" addresses I sold in the past, and the relatively frequent cases where people add extra funds to their coins, reload them after redeeming, or otherwise keep a non-zero balance on the addresses after opening them.

Awesome list. As a collector I really like this.

So each time a coin generates a code is it the same or different?

Sure, the NFC tag will have the full public address and a confirmation code (10 alpha-numeric characters).  The full public address will be useful on its own because, as we currently see, FirstBits is non-operable on blockchain.info (unless they fixed that recently).

The confirmation code will be generated by hashing the public address and performing some trade secret set of other data destructive algorithms to come up with the 10 character code.  Nothing fancy, just increasing entropy.  So my app will ping my server with the full public address and the confirmation code and the server will perform the transformations and verify that the code provided is the same as the code generated.  Once verified it will ping other services like blockchain.info and bitcoinaverages so you get a nice "one sheet" of validity and value for the coin.

The security is mostly about verifying the coin is not a counterfeit but I put in a few more helpful functions.

Thanks for this it looks very interesting. Can you tell me more about how the Embedded NFC tag security will work? What data does it provide?

Since you have an up and coming section I wanted to post here.  I am attempting to start a physical bitcoin that is specifically designed to be traded and not kept as a collectors item.  I am trying to raise funds with an Indiegogo campaign.  Here are some relevant links:

http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/numisalis-physical-bitcoin/x/1557834

http://numisalis.com

If I get funded my first run will be for 15,000 coins.

Update on Casascius form Wired magazine:

http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/bitcoin-stacks.jpg


I've posted this to press releases:

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/2014-01-15-wired-bitcoin-mint-reopens-after-heat-from-feds-417093

Tim, to clarify: does that mean there are and will always be less than 10,000 coins dated 2013 in circulation or that 10,000 were minted and will eventually all be sold but they were not all sold within the window of 2013?

Nice list, ty for pulling them together.

Thanks J,

We started offering both private key and 2-factor authentication for Titan bitcoins at about coin number 200 in the edition for the Titan One.  That is an option for all of our coins.  

The Titan One Silver for 2013, minted in 1 oz of silver, is a separate edition and only 1,000 were produced.  We will sell these until Springtime before moving on to the 2014 edition.

The Titan One Gold, minted in 1 oz of gold, is available late January of 2014.  We're making those in batches of 100 and we're producing no more than 1000 for 2014.  

We're also offering 0.1 BTC, 0.25 BTC, 0.5 BTC, 5 BTC, and 10 BTC this year.  


Also, we did NOT sell 10,000 1 BTC coins in 2013.  I haven't added them up yet, but we'll be publishing the final mintage on our site.

Sure, that's fine.

Arash, I've updated your section in the main listing. If possible can I check:

1. The date of the original (un-issued) coins is correct?
2. Can you give some info on how they were planned to work?
3. Can I get quantity info for the new coins.

Thanks for the info. Got some images here:







May move these into this thread too if that's ok when I get a mo.

The only coin I've fully designed so far is the DIY quarter bitcoin which are labeled 2014 and went on sale December 17, 2013.
The previous editions were aluminum casascius coins that I loaded.

Great. That's enough to make the list.

Can you give me a detailed breakdown of each edition you've minted with numbers for each and rough dates if you have them. Even better links to photos of each different edition if possible.

I'm planning to put some photos up for people to see the different types of physical crypto out there.

Hey No_2, I got your message.

I made the physical quarter bitcoins pictured at http://serpco.in/#diy
Some software to help people fund the coins themselves is at https://github.com/jondale/serpcoin
Only 500 of these were minted.

I don't know if you wanted an altcoin post but someone in the Worldcoin community just released physical worldcoins although I think they're sold out

http://antaui.com/

Sorry for the sparse information. That was done intentionally, as I wanted to keep the information mostly limited and use this forum for discussion and more info. You can find answer to most of your questions at the following thread:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/nolacoincom-is-back-051-3btc-physical-coin-laser-engraved-global-shipping-400224

Excellent news - really glad you guys are back. I managed to get hold of one of your old coins and it was very well made.

The latest info does not seem to be up on your site.

Would you be able to give some info on how the old coins were supposed to function, the denominations issued and the number minted. Am I right in thinking these are now redundant?

Could you also explain how the new coins work? Are they preloaded, loadable or are you acting as the central authority who holds the private key? Can you also cover the denominations issued and the number minted.

Great List! Please check out www.nolacoin.com as I am back in business with a more traditional physical bitcoin; for sale now.

Do you have any images of the physical currency you can share? I'm hoping to add images at some point.

This is great! Thank you for consolidating all of this info. My only piece of feedback would be that I have one other line of proofs. PPC Silver with 24k gold highlights - 1 batch of 50 minted to date. Here is a link to the product:
http://finitebydesign.net/product/batch-1-1-troy-ounce-of-999-fine-silver-w-24k-gold-highlights-commemorative-peercoin-proof/

Also, if you want to link to the site, here:
http://finitebydesign.net/

It is a new site I just created on New Years Day and is much better than the old. I have some additional things on the site such as the master inventory of all the proofs produced, redemption instructions, some info on the private key generation process and a blog.

Cheers!

I stepped out of the physical cryptocurrency business as it seemed a little too risky with current moves by the feds. You can however still print out the bills I used here:

http://print.printcoins.com/

and it include instructions as well as source code (so you don't have to trust my server with private key production).

I was making these back when bitcoins were about $3 a piece, so the smallest denomination is $0.01. If someone wants to tweak the code to go smaller, feel free to submit it up to github and I will update the site. Perhaps they should be printed in mBTC now with some special coloration to signify the change.

This is a list of all the physical cryptocurrencys produced and the volumes minted. They have been ordered by they year they were first minted and made available, although they may have been available in subsequent years.

Items marked '[]' are to do or have been filled out as a best guesses. I have cited any references I could find. If you are able to elaborate and help provide definitive information to clarify any of these areas please do comment below so I can reference it.

I am currently working on a set of canonical images for each piece of physical crypto. If you have some high quality images you are willing to share please let me know and I will add them to this post.

Antaui:

2014

5WDC – One troy ounce silver coin, dated 2013, 500 minted.

ANXBTC:

2014

0.0014BTC – Red pocket redeemable voucher, 50,000 minted. All valid until 4th Feb 2014 12am [A].


Bitbills:

2011

1BTC – Pre-loaded cards with scratch and reveal private hologram.
5BTC – Pre-loaded cards with scratch and reveal private hologram.
10BTC – Pre-loaded cards with scratch and reveal private hologram.
20BTC – Pre-loaded cards with scratch and reveal private hologram.
BTC – Loadable card.
BTC – Payment address cards for receiving payments.

Casascius [1][2][B]: [Both reference sites have discrepancies in the number of coins listed, I'm hoping Casascius can clarify at some point.]

2011

1BTC – Brass coin, 28.6mm diameter, [11,000] minted dated 2011 with series 1 sticker (spelling error in hologram), [3,000] minted dated 2011 with series 2 sticker.

BTC – Loadable gold plated bar, 80mm x 40mm x 6mm, [n] minted, series 2 sticker stating "ZERO BTC".
100BTC – Gold plated bar, 80mm x 40mm x 6mm, [102 minted, series 1 and 2 sticker].
500BTC – Gold plated bar, 80mm x 40mm x 6mm, [2 minted, series 1 sticker], series 1 sticker with lasered overprinting on the hologram to indicate the denomination.
1,000BTC – Gold plated bar, 80mm x 40mm x 6mm, [28 minted], series 1 sticker with lasered overprinting on the hologram to indicate the denomination.
10,000LTC – Loadable gold plated bar, 80mm x 40mm x 6mm, 1 minted [3].

25BTC – Gold plated coin, 44.4mm diameter, dated 2011, [n] minted with series 1 sticker (spelling error in hologram) , [n] minted with series 2 sticker. Zeroes and ones on the back encode the message "You asked for change, we gave you coins".

2012

1BTC – Brass coin, 28.6mm diameter, [n] minted dated 2012 with series 2 sticker.

5BTC – Nickel plated brass coin, 28.6mm diameter, dated 2012. [n] minted with series 1 sticker (spelling error in hologram), [n] minted with series 2 stickers.
10BTC – One troy ounce silver coin, 39mm diameter, dated 2013, [n] minted with series 2 sticker stating "TEN BTC". Gold rim and 'B' silver token, [n] minted with series 2 sticker stating "TEN BTC". Zeroes and ones on the back encode the message "Bitcoin: an idea too big to fail".

1,000 BTC – One troy ounce gold coin, 30mm diameter, dated 2012, [5] minted, series 1 sticker with Bitcoin address lasered at top instead of inkjetted across middle.

2013

1BTC – Brass coin, 28.6mm diameter, [n] minted dated 2013 with series 2 sticker.

0.5BTC – Brass coin, 25.4mm diameter, dated 2013. [n] minted.

BTC - Loadable aluminium coins, 38.1mm diameter, 80,000 minted. Supplied in plain aluminium, blue, purple, gold, red and green [4].

1BTC – One troy ounce silver coin, 39mm diameter, dated 2013, 1,300 minted with series 3 sticker. One troy ounce silver coin with gold plated rim and 'B' dated 2013, 700 minted with series 3 sticker.
0.5BTC – Half troy ounce silver coin, 30mm diameter, dated 2013, 45 minted with series 2 sticker, [n] minted with series 3 sticker [C].
0.1BTC – Quarter troy ounce silver coin, 25mm diameter, dated 2013, [n] minted with series 3 sticker.

Cryptocoinwalletcards.com:

2013
BTC – Loadable cards with scratch and reveal private hologram. Available in blue, green, pink, purple. pink/purple, red, tan and yellow.
LTC – Loadable cards with scratch and reveal private hologram. Available in blue, green, pink, purple. pink/purple, red, tan and yellow.
NMC – Loadable cards with scratch and reveal private hologram. Available in blue, green, pink, purple. pink/purple, red, tan and yellow.
PPC – Loadable cards with scratch and reveal private hologram. Available in blue, green, pink, purple. pink/purple, red, tan and yellow.

Finite By Design:

2013
11XMP – One troy ounce silver coin, two editions of 50 coins each have been minted.
10PPC – One troy ounce silver coin, one edition of 50 coins has been minted.
10CGB – One troy ounce silver bar, one edition of 50 coins has been minted.
PPC – One troy ounce silver coin with gold plated highlights, loadable, one edition of 50 coins has been minted so far.

2014
BTC – One troy ounce silver coin with gold plated highlights, loadable, one edition of 50 coins pre-order.
LTC – One troy ounce silver coin with gold plated highlights, loadable, one edition of 50 coins pre-order.
NMC – One troy ounce silver coin with gold plated highlights, loadable, one edition of 50 coins pre-order.
WDC – One troy ounce silver coin with gold plated highlights, loadable, one edition of 50 coins pre-order.

Jinn Bitcoin:

2013

1BTC – Silver coated brass coin, [n] minted, private key under hologram, loaded with varying amounts of BTC. Serialised with paper certificates and hand painted serial numbers on coins.

Lealana [5][6]:

2013

10LTC – Half troy ounce silver coin, 30mm diameter, 1,000 minted with an error (the coins did not have an indentation for the private key so have a raised bump visible on the sticker). [n] minted without error. Sets of two come in a commemorative box.
25LTC – One troy ounce silver coin, 500 minted.
5LTC – Quarter troy ounce silver coin, 2000 minted.
1BTC – One troy ounce silver coin with gold plated rim, 39mm diameter, and 'B', 500 minted.
0.5BTC – One troy ounce silver coin, 39mm diameter, 500 minted.
0.25 – Half troy ounce silver coin, 30mm diameter, 1,000 minted.
0.1 BTC – Quarter troy ounce silver coin, 25mm diameter, 2,000 minted.
1LTC – Nickel coated brass coin, 29.972mm diameter, 2,000 minted with series 1 sticker (no overprinted serial on the hologram), 8,000 minted with series 2 stickers.

Nasty Mining:

2014

BTC – One troy ounce silver coin, 39mm diameter, 500 minted. Engraved public & private keys, tamper-evident security hologram with diffusing insert, entirely visible sequential public vanity addresses (all starting with 1Nasty). Each coin entitles the holder to 1 NastyFans share and receives its equivalent voting rights on NastyFans.org and mining operation pay-outs sent to the coin's address. NastyFans has issued 25,000 shares (referred to as seats). As of Jan 2014 each share receives the total amount of crypto mined in the mining operation (at 450GH) divided by 25,000 shares on a recurring weekly basis. This will soon be bumped up to 10THs plus 25MH/s of scrypt power to be added to the mining operation for shareholders. In addition to payouts from the mining operation shareholders also receive a top up from non affiliated users mining in the NastyFans altcoin mining pool where users are currently mining at 750GH/s.

Nolacoin (Previously: The Bitcoin Exchange of New Orleans) [7]:

2011

The Bitcoin Exchange of New Orleans had minted coins in denominations of 1, 5 and 10 BTC each with a unique ID number, but these were never officially issued. Apparently The Bitcoin Exchange of New Orleans would act as the central authority that stored the private keys.

2013

0.5BTC – Brass coloured coin, 43mm diameter, 999 minted.
1BTC – Silver coloured coin,  43mm diameter, 999 minted.
3BTC – Silver coloured coin with golden edging,  43mm diameter, 500 minted.

Recalescence Coins:

[ToDo] ^See site link in title for more info.

Titan Mint [8]:

2013

1BTC – Goldine copper alloy coin, 34mm diameter x 2mm, 10,000 minted, dated 2013. Serialised with paper certificates. Originally just the one version of coin, where Titan Mint act as the central authority to store the coins value, Titan started producing another version concurrently where the private keys are contained under the hologram from approximately coin number 200 onward. Both types are mixed within the batch of 10,000.
1BTC – Silver coin, 39mm diameter x 3.3mm, 1,000 minted, dated 2013. Available as with Titan acting as the funds holder and private key under the hologram. Both types are mixed within the batch of 1,000.

Zinodaur/Cryptovest:

2013

LTC - 4,000 minted, buyer fundable

Up and Comming:

Firmcoin:


[ToDo] ^See site link in title for more info.

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Selection Criteria:
    • Physical cryptocurrency must represent a store of value: either minted as a token where a central authority holds the private keys to access the balance or the token itself contains the private key. Tokens can be supplied funded or unfunded and fundable.
    • The cryptocurrency being minted as a physical medium must have a publicly viewable blockchain-like data structure, be open source and based on proof of work or proof of stake.
    • Maker must have produced over 450 units of their physical cryptocurrency.
    • Physical currency can be any medium, e.g. card, paper wallet etc., but must be physical.
    • Volumes are only given for minted media provided pre-loaded with cryptocurrency.

References:
[1] – http://casascius.uberbills.com/
[2] – http://casascius.appspot.com/
[3] - https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.653081
[4] – https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/aluminum-casascius-coins-at-the-bitcoin-foundation-conference-204662
[5] – https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/lealana-physical-litecoins-for-sale-resuming-sales-243341
[6] – https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/lealana-physical-bitcoins-999-fine-silver-gold-plated-coins-315440
[7] – https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/nolacoincom-is-back-051-3btc-physical-coin-laser-engraved-global-shipping-400224
[8] – https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.3381437