Topic: [Photo] First of 2013 Casascius Silver Coins Now Available For Sale - page 2. (Read 15895 times)

FinCEN has reached out to me to say they believe I am a money transmitter (hence subject to KYC) despite my belief otherwise. I have a good legal team advising me and working to get to the bottom of the difference, meanwhile, doing this is prudent.

Hey Mike, can you give us more information about this from your site?


Can you tell us what specific regulatory issues concern you? Normal AML stuff or something else?

WHile I"m at it...I'm almost out of these gold ones...I only made 700 and nearly all of them are sold.  Actually, just to be clear, once I run out, that puts me out of all editions of Casascius 1-ounce silver coins thru 2013.  Not making any more of these for this year.  I've left open the option to buy 1 of them on my website (effectively eliminating the bulk roll pricing) and they'll be up till they're gone.

That little strip of foam in there does a pretty good job of preventing rotation and keeping the coins from too much movement, but are probably better suited for storage than shipping.

Was it the clam or the black end rings that broke?  I've dropped a couple of those long ago and the rings are fragile (but the coins seemingly stay safe).

While those are neat cases, those aren't the ones I actually meant to ship in, and usually don't use them.  Those are actually the shells the original 10BTC coins came to me in from the mint.  Since I never sold 10's by the roll, I had them spare and lying around, improvising when the first batch of gold-plated 1's came back without the containers.  These air-tite 20 clams look sweet but hearing they're prone to breakage, I'll just use the other square ones (and have resumed doing so for a while).

What a great type of packaging/carrier! how secure are the coins (ie: to prevent them rotating or shifting against the plastic)?

It looks as though my post has helped prompt others to request authentication from me.  Bring 'em on.

When you request authentication, please let me know what you want it to say.  Some people want minimal info, others want more.  Here is a template of what I might write for you - in fact, if you modify it and send me what you'd like it to say, that makes my job easy and gets you closest to what you're after.  Please identify your order (by order number, or email address).  Also if you have one handy, please include the 8-character prefix of any of the coins in the order (helps me search in case I have trouble finding it).

---template language below

November 9, 2013

To whom it may concern,

According to my records, I sold the following coins to John Doe on or about January 111, 2013,
and shipped them to an address in Anytown, MA 01234.

1aaaaaaaaa: 1
1bbbbbbbbb: 1
(don't worry about providing the addresses - chances are pretty good I can do this on my own if I can find your order)

(any other details you consider relevant, please add them... examples include: any additional info about your
identity, address, pgp key, forum handle, and any unusual or custom details regarding your order that you would
like memorialized).  I will likely reword the details so as to clarify I'm not claiming them as first-hand knowledge.

Sincerely,

Mike Caldwell

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it's normal for me to take a couple of days to turn these around, as I have plenty of things going on.

Thanks for sharing your feelings on this.

If you contact me by email and make an individual request for a specific order, then I turn that around in a reasonable timeframe.  That has continued to stand since I made that offer.  If you have done so and I have failed to act on it, I apologize, and request that you contact me privately once more, particularly containing what information you'd like the signed acknowledgment to contain (since it varies by your need).  In general, I don't know which forum names correspond to which real-world identities, so unless you explicitly identify your order, I don't know which order to acknowledge by reference to a forum posting alone.

The item that I have "out there" with a non-specific delivery time is to go through my order history and send out, in a very large batch, something acknowledging all the prior orders.  The main issue is that the methodology I have for knowing which coins I've sent to customers has varied throughout the time I've done it, and I don't consistently have a record as to who got what coins.  In many cases, I do have a record, but it's not available to me on an automated basis (e.g. it's not in my database, but it's in my sent mail in the case where I acknowledged the order and listed the specific coins sent).  Therefore, what I'm taking "forever" to do, is to send off an automated batch of this info.

Hi Mike,

As of today, a full three months has passed since you made the offer to provide signed docs. I'd like to ask again if there's any update on this.

I paid you 55 BTC for two rolls of coins back in July. That was close to six thousand dollars at the time of purchase, or over sixteen thousand dollars at today's exchange rate. I'm not asking for a lot here, and given the fact that I've personally enriched you to the tune of several thousand dollars, I'm both upset and amazed that I've had to pester you so many times already to do this.

You've lost me as a paying customer; this can only be described as a complete failure of customer service. Hopefully I'm the exception and others have gotten better treatment so far.

Perhaps you could take some time out of your day to either provide me with the promised documents, or at least give me a definite time frame in which they'll be delivered? I can provide you with my PGP fingerprint via email or PM.

Just bought a couple. Looking forward to them!

My review:

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.3443515

Pictures:

http://postimg.org/gallery/7mocx58g

*dust, dust*

Had to brush off my old account. Haven't been around for a bit, but the recent uptick in BTC price has caught my attention.

I have to say that those coins look awesome! Wish I had seen them earlier because I would have likely ordered some despite the customs headaches of my current locale.

Keep in mind that silver operates like a mirror. Likely it is the surrounding causing the blue.

Is it just me/the light or are have all but one of these been plated with blue as well as gold?

I need to get some of these!

Mine came in. 

I like the new type of air tight tube you are using. Can't say I've ever seen this type before.

Thanks again Mike, love the coins!

Hmph, yes, couldn't Mike have come up with all the new shiny things at once? Would have spared me a fortune on shipping fees

Good Job Mike. Very Nice.

Ordered a roll and looking forward to receiving it.

Aloha 

Gold plating added to the remaining 700 or so 1oz coins!  It turned out really well, even better than on the 2012's.  All future orders will be fulfilled with gold plated stock.  Shopping cart added to indicate the change.

1oz coins w/o gold plating are no longer available, however, the 0.5 and 0.1BTC coins are bare silver with no gold plating.

I'm closer.  Sorry it's taken so long.  Am currently doing one-offs upon request as well.

Any update on this?