Topic: Who wants Casascius coins in the UK? (Read 2522 times)

I pm'ed you with a reply. I may be interested in doing some business so get back to me.

Hi again HowGudAmI,
I'm not into the pooling thing but I have some rolls on order so I'll tell you what I'll do - given that you're interested in reselling:

I'll sell you four coins of your choice (1s for 1.45, 1/2s for 0.875) and if you can show me you've sold them for at least 1.7 and 1 respectively I'll sell you the four you were after for yourself at cost (1.26 and 1.45 respectively).  Does that sound reasonable?

Casascius is auctioning rolls of 50 0.5BTC coins and 1BTC coins RIGHT NOW!. The auctions will end at 22:00 UTC.

I personally dont have the BTC to spend 25BTC on the 0.5 coins or 50BTC on the 1 coins. But I thought I would post it here just incase anyone wants to pool together to make a bid?

I can only go for 4BTC's worth at the moment.

Side note: separate to this venture, me and a couple of others are looking to start a business reselling physical coins in the UK - we are currently in early planning stages and hope to become fully operational later this year. We are not yet at a stage where we can buy a roll of coins.

Sounds like a solid plan!

Id have interest in the higher denominations mainly but I could probs find a buyer for 2 or 3 of the 1BTC's

He is supposed to be releasing the 2013 10BTC coins and also there might be a new version of the 5BTC coin coming out.

So I think its best if I wait to see if they are coming out soon, also maybe for the numbers for higher denom coins to increase here a bit, then we can get on the ball pretty quick once they are released.

I have demand for 3 x 1BTC, what would your demand be?

If we have enough people I will reach out to casascius and ask him if he will supply a single bulk order to us.

I think now is the time when we come together and buy as a conglomerate then maybe.

The next few weeks/months will be a major tell.

Whoa, that was lucky - I just received my last 10 x 1btc pieces over the weekend.  Maybe it's time to stop playing so fast and loose with them.

I've just had a quick look on ebay.co.uk at what they're going for - http://www.ebay.co.uk/csc/i.html?_from=R40&_sacat=0&_nkw=casascius&LH_Complete=1&rt=nc - maybe I should have stocked up!!

Darn it. Looks like prices will only be going up on these things now!.

Check out the site: https://www.casascius.com/
"Ordering directly from Casascius.com is available only by invitation."
He's stopped selling to Joe Public now

bump!.

Shame that we couldnt have bumped up the order there, but it does not matter now   .

I am only after 2 or 3 of the 1BTC coins but I am ideally looking to source them as I have suggested in this thread rather than getting them from a reseller at a high markup.

Please do keep us up to date if you ever want to make another order, hopefully we could sort something out.  

Sorry guys, I didn't see this in time.  I last week put an order in for 10 x 1BTC pieces.  When all my nephews/nieces/cousins' kids are sorted (I've been doing this for some months now) I'll see what I have left and may sell what I have left.  I do like having them around though so I won't promise.  I enjoyed over the time I've been doing this carrying one or two around in my pocket with my change and receiving inquisitive looks from shopkeepers but they're getting a bit too valuable to risk being damaged by the sterling coin to do that now.  Over Christmass and before I was often even carrying one of the 25s with me and when it got to be worth over £200 that was quite impressive.  But at almost £1,500 it's getting a bit silly for that and I may sell one or two of those in time too.  For now though unfortunately it makes no sense to do anything other than keep them in the safe!

I don't possess any of the silver 10s myself having as soon as I could bought and given those to my nearest and dearest.  Come to think of it I know someone who has a 5BTC piece (just like the 1s) who might be happy to let it go if the price were right.

Now I have written to this thread I will get prompted whenever there are replies so if and when interest is shown I will reconsider my position and maybe let some of the physical go depending on what's offered.

How many coins and what denominations would you possibly be interested in then?...

Casascius has lowered the fee on coins now (due to the exchange rate I imagine) so an example order of 10x1BTC coins cost BTC10.60 instead of BTC10.95. Its a small saving but stil a saving...

I would be interested in seeing Casacius coins in the UK as I'm fed up with the lack of reliable BTC to GBP exchanges in the UK (as the one I used,Intersango isn't working with GBP for nearly a year now,I think)

I might be interested in the paper money with holograms and such, not particularly interested in the coins atm.

Thats fine,  .

As stated above though I (or another willing member) would take on the hassle, and everyone else just pays their share.

Either way, It does not look like we can get enough demand here to reach casascius's discounted rates.

Yeah thats why I was asking.

I would prefer to order direct from him anyway to be honest, it seems like less hassle.

they are sold out at the moment direct from casascius.
https://www.casascius.com/

But for this order you could obtain anything that he has in stock.

Have you got any of the larger coins?

specifically the 10BTC rounds?