Topic: WTS 2011 Casascius 1 btc physical bitcoin (for a guy at the WSOP) (Read 1417 times)

is that the front? i always thought that was the back

Here are a couple more pics of the front.  Not sure how to make them appear smaller in the thread. 

https://i.imgur.com/apCzLIW.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/ybQD07U.jpg

I'd bid 1.6 for this

Both good questions, as I really didn't know what I had here until today not sure exactly what price i'm looking for.  Kinda seeing what the knowledgeable wizards of this site seem to think the fair market value is and will go from there.  Not a hard end time as of right now as I am still trying to to figure a fair price.  I cant see it going on for very long though as usual Micons read is dead on and I'm looking for a little USD to fire before the WSOP is over. 

When is the auction over? Or rather what price are you looking to get for it?

Thanks

Thanks for the pic!  I would offer 1.5BTC as it is in rough shape from being handled.

Hey guys I am the anon gentlemen that Micon was referring too.  The coin in question was purchased from a buddy after he ordered bout half a dozen or so online in the summer of 2012.  Not sure exactly where online he got them but I can tell you that I got this coin the day it was delivered to him and has remained pretty much unmolested in a drawer since I got.(minus the few random tourneys it acted my card protector the first few weeks I had it. ) here are a few better pics so you can see what your getting. If interested let me know and maybe i can get Micon to help facilitate the transaction.  Thanks for the interest guys and look forward to seeing someone scoop this up.

P.S.  First time posting too so if the pics don't come up I'll figure it out and post again.

https://i.imgur.com/CmDkHfA.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/uhimcJG.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/6MtlPSy.jpg

The fact that he is using his fingers to hold it scares me off. That will reduce the grading alot.

I need pic of the front it better shows condition.

1)  new better pic sent by the seller:

https://twitter.com/BryanMicon/status/479441834611978240/photo/1

2) guy at rio did not want to buy it or didn't know what he is buying.  Offers / bids still being accepted / seller may or may not have an un-newbie'd bitcointalk account so he may be texting me / I post here.

Unless it is first day funded**

The fund date does not really matter with these coins imo.  All I care about is the grades they get!

Myself and others have 2011 S1 error funded in 2012.

The coin is funded for sure

there is good way to verify here that the 1 btc is in fact unspent if that is in fact a real coin with that serial number and not a brilliant copy?


edit:  (rephrase)  does this link in fact verify the 1 btc is still "in the coin" i.e. private key contained within the un-peeled holographic coating never used in human history?

Seller is meeting a poker friend of mine now to see if he can quickly get cash in vegas for it.

he says if the deal doesn't go down he will post higher quality pix and respond to the questions in this thread.  

Let me see if he can quickly send me a better pic of the front, and based on the research of the hologram info on the back, without knowing *too much* about these I remember buying 5 (have 3 left, gave away 2 that day from Mike in person I think January 2012 and they were of course 2011 1 btc coins that look very similar to the one the dude is trying to sell now.  

Maybe I shouldn't have used mine as a card protector in 2012 WSOP

also I think I bought 5x of them for a $20 bill b/c BTC price was like $3 at the time

lololololololol why didn't I fire a full hundo?  
[/end irrational thoughts that we all have]

This sounds fishy to me. I remember buying some 2011 series 1 and series 2 coins in late 2011. How is this possible that a series 1 was sold so late? I'm out until this can be cleared up.

It would seem that this 2011 S1 brass Casascius 1BTC coin was funded on 7/26/2012...? Very odd late funding for an S1 Holo...
http://casascius.uberbills.com/?address=1EKjTxmjQucLVqinrhBidPfBpNSPGELi7q

Does seller have any idea on the history of this coin?  Realizing that you are just trying to help a brother quickly convert an asset, it still might assist seller, buyer and price to have a bit of back story here if possible...

I also need better pictures to bid.

Any way we can get it ?

im out i hope he gets enough to play an event looks like theres a few 1500 ones coming up

it is obviously being handled too 

For me to bid higher I need a better picture of the front of the coin.

1.9

1.8

1.3

1.2

I'll start the bidding at 1.1 

So a guy that likely wants to remain anon came up to me today wanting to sell me this 2011 Casascius 1 btc physical bitcoin for exactly 1 bitcoin.  Because I'm a bitcoin baron and believe in this currency / community I wouldn't simply take the man for something worth much more than 1 bitcoin simply because he didn't know.  I'm just not that guy.  Wouldn't be able to sleep at night.

So I said I would help him out and act as escrow for someone that wanted to buy it for fair market value.  I can verify it looked like a real one (I have 3x 2011 similar ones) and the guy really looks like a poker player that wants some USD to play some WSOP.  That is one man's read.  I decided to help him as I believe him to be genuine.  here are the pix of his coin:

https://twitter.com/BryanMicon/status/479416431654608896
https://twitter.com/BryanMicon/status/479416652287598592
https://twitter.com/BryanMicon/status/479416973353156608

I can act as escrow if someone wanted to send me the btc if a price could be agreed upon, then I can mail you the coin certified / return reciept / fedex / UPS / DHL / whatever method you prefer and want to pay for.

Dream result is someone randomly in Las Vegas with cash and meets us both at the Rio to do the deal.  but if someone outside that small bubble wants to fire on that, I'll show him where the 2-way Robocoin bitcoin ATM is downtown and "teach a man to fish" so to speak.

glglglglggl

just start bidding / this guy wants cash ASAP.