Holy shit this sold for a lot! In my opinion this coin isn't worth nearly that much peeled, but hey whatever a buyer is willing to pay is what something is worth right. At this price however, this is typically what the 25 Casascius coin sells for. I've never seen a peeled coin sell for this much I don't think tbh. I've seen peeled silver 1 BTC Casascius coins sell before, but never for this much either. Personally if I was buying a Casascius coin without any bits on it I'd be going after the St Petersburg Bitcoin Bowl Game coin. I think you could get that for half the price. Cool coin of course, don't get me wrong.
I would like to say I’m not here to make accusations, but I followed the auction closely, and noticed bids from people with zero feedback pushing up the price. Looks as though the final buyer had feedback and scored the coin. It doesn’t look like a fair auction to me personally but it is possible people that don’t normally use eBay registered to buy the coin or something like that possibly. I feel it is overpriced as well but to each their own! I hope premiums continue to rise as the years go by.Damn this is unfortunate. I did not watch the auction nor do I even know who sold the coin, but I do know that there is often a ton of shill bidding going on in the eBay world. I was actually going to post about a certain bitcoin coin (ruthenium covered American Eagle bitcoin coins) that was being shill bided like crazy every single auction. So moral of that story is this is certainly nothing new...now I suppose it is possibly some new buyers but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
