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I have been submitting coins to ANACS for a long time now, but waited to send the best for last. This last submission were the best coins I have seen, and they graded that way also...

2013 Casascius .5 Silver Graded MS-69 <-- YES MS-69 SOLD

2013 Casascius .5 Silver Graded MS-68 - SOLD

2013 Casascius 1BTC Silver Graded MS-68 - Asking 4BTC Auction -> https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1114797.0

2013 Casascius 1BTC Silver Graded MS-67 x 2 SOLD

2013 Casascius .1BTC Silver Graded MS-67 SOLD

2012 Casascius 1BTC Brass Graded MS-65 - SOLD




https://i.imgur.com/F8BgJUP.jpg

You got a MS69 ?!?  .5 silver?

I am interested to see what these sell for (if such information is made public).

Edit: sent you an offer for three of the coins (ex the ms69)

WTF! MS69!  :o :o :o

pics pleeeeeese!  :o

WOW MS 69!

Just a question are there MS 70 Casascius' around?

MS-67 is sooo last year these days  :P

Wow only 1 grade off a perfect 70 8). I would also like to see some pics please :).

Getting a lot of messages...of course I will be posting pictures ASAP.

What's MS-69? Does anyone have a good website explaining these gradings? Thanks!

Check their website's FAQ: http://www.anacs.com/contentPages/FAQServices.aspx

Basically MS-69 means that the coin is nearly flawless (MS-70).

It is a coin that you definitely want to have

Hummm, I want 69 (for collection).

Oh my, I need to do some thinking....

Regardless of the sales, would you care to share pictures of your coins? It would be cool for us to see what they consider a 69 vs. 67.

Sounds like you won the lotto with that submission. What's the highest rating? 70? Good work!

Since there's no offer here yet, I'll start with 4BTC.

70 is the best rating they could get, but no Casascius coin has ever gotten it.  MS-68 has been the highest grade received before my MS-69 (only on some Silver + Gold singles and a tenth). I will post some pictures up soon for you guys.


4BTC is the top offer so far.

Reserve the ms69 for me, ill pm you with an offer in few hours

4.1

Beware of scammers.  I just got a PM from "Blazedout4119" telling me that he accepts my offer, and that I should send the coins to an address he provided in the PM.  I can't stand these scumbags.

  

Dropped a negative on it. They are about out of Blazed names to even try...lol. I check weekly for similar names and drop negs on them!

I will be back home this evening so I will post pics tonight or tomorrow morning of the coins.

Hey There Blazed,

If you have a buy it now price in mind for the all silver ms68 let me know - pm is fine if you don't want to post it.

Cheers!

Just taking offers for now since I have the only ones  :P After I get a few more offers I will then message the top bidders and make the sales.

Too low IMO.

Right now it is one of a kind grade and the .5 Silver S2's (45 total) were selling for 8-14 ungraded BTC.

Ill go ahead and put 6btc

^ and that is how you buy an incredible coin!

bstnminer has made a nice offer via PM...not sure if he wants it public, but David19 is outbid. I will finalize sale tomorrow after posting pics - if you want this coin message me and toss out an offer.

WATCH FOR FAKE BLAZED'S!!

I made a deal with Blazed for the silver single ms68.  It involved a cas physical and some btc. 

I have sent the btc directly to the coin address making it a Super 68.


Kidding....

Ha!


Added more coins to OP!

Edit: Pictures tomorrow morning of everything...too tired tonight!

D-d-d-d-daaaaammmmmnnnnnn, an MS69 Cas coin! :o

You need to hook me up with that girl at ANACS you've been bangin' Blazed!  :D

LOL, just playing...   A very fine coin indeed though! And it looks great (from what my imagination shows me  ;))!

I feel like you wouldn't want to get rid of this coin though, unless perhaps it is not the only MS69 you were fortunate enough to get back? Sitting on any others in your personal stack? It's only speculation for now, will be very interesting to see an ANACS population report for all the physical Bitcoin "tokens" that have been graded, if and when it is ever released. Could very well shake up the market when it does!

Added a picture...

I'm guessing you're regretting not buying my MS68 tenth now  ;D

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I'll put an offer down of 2.4BTC for the MS67 silver single.

MS-69  :o
What can I say? When you got the first MS-68s I was joking about you knowing someone in the grading office. But now, many MS-68s and an MS-69 later I'm thinking that there's more to the story...  ;D
Seriously though, you've got some amazing coins. I'm pretty sure you'll be getting an MS-70 sooner than later and I'd like to see what kind of price that fetches.
Hopefully now with the higher grades, MS-67/66/55 coins become even more affordable :)

Pretty sure these coins are S3 and not S2. If that is what you were implying.

Half of the coins are now sold...better get them quick!

Thinking of auctioning one of the 68 or 67s....anyone have a preference?

I think you should say how much you received for each for future reference :P.

Auction a 68 1btc.. I'd participate

Auction is up for a MS-68 Silver Single!!

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1108357.0

Do you have a BIN for all the coins together ?

Jonesing for some pictures...send the coins to me and I'll take the pictures for you!!!

Ha.  ;D

Damn, just noticed 3 coins are sold :/

How much did the ms69 get sold for?

He added pics to the OP.

Please share the sale price of the MS69!  :D I'm sure many of us are curious.

I will ask the winner if they mind me posting it.

I am willing to cut some nice deals on the 67 graded stuff...hit me up!

Hey Blazed,

What is your minimum for the silver 0.1?

I will take 1.75 shipped if you USA based. If you want to take a MS-67 single I will cut a break.

Cas MS67 Silver Tenth at 1.75 shipped in us.  I'll do it, PM sent.

Damn, sounds like a new market price has been set for the tenths! Nice work, to both of you, beautiful looking coins.

Should put a price range where it sold for. For example 6-8 btc. The real price was 7.5.

The person who bought the 2012 1BTC Brass MS65 is most welcome to send me a PM and share the price, as I am very interested in hearing what such a coin is worth in the current market, I own a 2012 brass and having difficulties evaluating the value. These 2012 brass come up for sale so rarely so not much to compare with.

Thank you, and congrats with picking up this nice coin :D

I can tell you an 8.2btc offer did not take the ms69.  A very nice coin for the person who got it (not me).

Just for transparency the bidding was done via PM, but all bidders were copied to keep it open. I always hate when people are like "oh I got a bid via PM" - then do not prove it...

I think the MS-69 would have been a great candidate to run a public auction for.

I can only imagine how much it would have sold for

Well I hope to get another 69 with a batch I am sending in next week, but who knows. To date that is the only 69 I have ever gotten from ANACS.

It wouldn't surprise me if you drop a MS70 on the market at some point...

If it happens, you're correct.  It will be Blazed that does it. :-)

Heyyy people!! the ms69 was being sold for 8.5. I have been looking for a 45 0.5 silver from monkeynuts and nubbins lately.
69 suddenly popped up from blaz and i decided to go for it instead.  ;D

Wow congrats on the very nice coin

Thanks, thought its only a courtesy to share it here

Coins are all gone except the one @ auction!

LAST ONE! Are you willing to share what the MS68 1BTCs went for? Might encourage more interest in your auction...  ;D

Little over 4BTC - Only 2 were let go of...auction being the 3rd. One of the 2 was actually a trade for other coins.

And your silver/gold MS68 from a while back went for about that much. Good to know, thanks.

Curious how many more 68+ are in your personal collection and haven't gone on the chopping block...?

Only 2 of each type so far...and now 0 MS-69 coins.

I still have 1 last MS-68 Silver Single for sale..asking 4BTC shipped.

Id be willing to put down 3.25 shipped to eu

I think the last one was sold for far more and didn't include shipping.   Might have to bump up your bid.

Sorry that is a bit low for this coin. Maybe I will auction it off...

You should auction it with one of your ms68 silver/gold 1btc coins!  :P

Blazed, are you liquidating your whole lot?

He has a lot more than you think.

He might just be making room for all the 1000BTC coin?

Nah just selling of some...I would never liquidate my entire collection. I love these coins too much to sell my private stash off  :P

Dazed: I have no "extra" Silver/Golds that are graded that high for sale. I do have a couple not graded getting ready to be sent in though.

Last MS-68 for sale -> https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1114797.0

Are any coin grading firms beyond ANACS accepting these coins?

There is NGS(?), however they are nowhere near as reputable as ANACS, and they tend to give out higher grades (usually at least one grade higher), so people tend to not seek out highly graded coins they grade quite as much

There is also a UK company that is grading these coins CGS.

Quickseller, I think the opposite is true in the numismatic world. NGC and PSGS are ranked really highly while ANACS and others are ranked as average. See this survey -> http://www.bestcoin.com/Rating-Coin-Grading-Services.htm

The real question is which of these accept bitcoin for grading. I've only seen ANACS slabs. Maybe I'll send a note to NGC and see what they're willing to do.

Take a look at this (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=867560.0;all) thread. Pistachio had coind that was grade MS069, and MS68 by ICG. Blazedout later sent the coin to ANACS and they scored MS66 and MS67, which is two whole grades below what ICG gave them (which is a large difference).

My understanding si that ACACS and ICG are #3 and #4 in the coin grading world, however #1 and #2 will generally not grade physical crypto coins  :(

Thanks for coming around, sounds like NGC and PCGS may be #1 and #2 in the business (there's only 5 or so widely known coin grading firms). What I'm getting at is if NGC and PCGS are more highly regarded in the coin world then a physical bitcoin graded by them could command a higher premium for sales.

Y'all are correct.  I've been doing this coin collecting thing for quite a while, my passions are toned silver and Ike's. 

In any case PCGS and NGC are very closely #1 and #2, and in some cases they flip flop that ranking.  For example for Ike's it's widely recognized that PCGS is "harder" on them, and anything in their plastic is usually seems as at least half a grade, if not more, higher than NGC.  On the flip side, NGC seems to do a better job with some other types where you would trust their grades a little more.

ANACS is a solid third.  Their grades are usually seen as 1 lower than the top two in general.  However, they certify an astounding number of varieties, errors, and as we see with the case with Bitcoin, more tokens and medals than the others. ANACS used to be top dog a long time ago, but their grading has come down, I guess most of the top graders are lured to the other two over them.

ICG is a very distant fourth.  Their grades are usually seen as 1 below ANACS and 2-3 below the top guys.  There's very little they get right, and typically you'll use them if you want to fool a newbie into thinking he's buying a really good coin when really it's not.

Then there's the basement graders, like SEGS, SGS, PCI, and the list goes on.  Stick to the top three if at all possible.

Oh, and the most important mantra - "buy the coin, not the slab".  That goes both ways... You could see a coin in hand that doesn't warrant the grade, or one that is clearly under graded.

Good luck, happy hunting... :)

The 2012 brass arrived safe and sound.  Glad to add it to the collection.  Thanks blazed  ;)

dang u cleanin ur shit out

Everyone has received their coins so I am locking this...always a pleasure!