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Up for auction is:

• (1) ANACS MS-68 Lealana .1 BTC Silver MS-68

Escrow: Accepted, provided that the buyer pays the fee/tip, with the minimum fee/tip being paid being 1% of the total amount held in escrow

Shipping:

• Within US: $10
• Canada: $25
• Internationally (except Canada): $50
• Customs/import fees/taxes: Paid for by buyer
• Shipping is to be paid in bitcoin based on Coinbase last at time of payment

Starting bid: 0.1 BTC
Reserve*: 0.4 BTC
Bidding increments: 0.01 BTC
Buy it now: 0.65 BTC
Buy it now: The above  Buy it now offer expires once the current high bid reaches 0.4 BTC
End date and time: July 22, 2015 at 7:30 PM Eastern Time (USA)
Sniping: Not allowed; any bids placed within the last 15 minutes of the end time will extend the end time by an additional 15 minutes
Payment methods accepted: Bitcoin
Special Offer: Anyone who increases the high bid by at least .05 BTC and the winning bidder have the option (but not the obligation) to purchase the following:

• Up to (5) Lealana 0.1 BTC silver coins (ungraded) at a price of .305 BTC each
• Up to (5) Lealana 0.1 BTC brass coins (ungraded) at a price of .155 BTC each

The price of the coin(s) for the special offer will be "plus shipping costs". There are a limited number of the above coins available, and they will be sold on a first come first serve basis, and they can be purchased/reserved as soon as you increase the high bid by at least .05 BTC. However at least (4) of each type of coin will be reserved for the winning bidder.

Additional Information: All of the coins are funded with their face value, and none of them have any kind of "buyer funded" markings. The hologram is intact and untampered with

*If the reserve is not met, then I have the right to either reject the bid, or accept the bid and sell it for the high bid price.

**Pictures will be posted within 24 hours when I have physical access to the coin.

Escrow will probably be used, but if it is not then the only address I will ask you to send to is:
>>> 18NwYkut9kKP3bGVxPKqNRJAZ7KxhQU3Ko <<<

This address is signed below: (post containing my PGP key (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=996318.msg11698750#msg11698750))

Sorry for the delay....

As promised, below are pictures of this beautiful coin. Enjoy!

https://i.imgur.com/ws4ozRl.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/gJo1fvq.jpg

I'll start this at .25

^^This is the current high bid.

Auction ends tomorrow at 7:30 PM eastern time.

Ends today at 7:30 PM eastern time.

This is a very nice coin. It is funded with it's face value, does not have any BTCuyer funded markings and is graded MS68 by ANACS

I'll bump it to 0.3BTC, maybe it'll spur some folks to at least get to your reserve price...

^^this is the current high bid.

I thought for sure this would be worth much more then .3  :P

One hour remaining

I believe it is and I would happily pay your reserve if I had the coin right now.  Keep in mind that smoothie is still selling these by the roll and there is an auction for a roll right now in this forum.  These are in pristine condition and should grade well.  Also consider that smoothie has been aggressively selling lately to take advantage of the low bitcoin price to maximize his bits and you will understand that many of us hold a lot of smoothie coins at this point and the market here is getting saturated.  Judging by the recent ANACS grading we have seen, I am sure I have at least a dozen MS68 coins in my collection.  But I would happily take more because I love the smoothinator.  In short your timing just isn't very good.

I do see that he is auctioning a roll of these now.

With that being said, it does cost a bit more to have to buy and fund an entire roll of 20 coins, plus there is no guarantee that some freak accident will not happen when you are shipping the coins to ANACS, causing them to get damaged, as well as there being no guarantee that any coins you send to ANACS will get a high grade (although almost all of the lealana coins have received very good grades).

Also, even with the market the way it is right now, I still feel that these coins are worth every bit of my reserve and then some ;)

Btw, I'm good if you want to not sell it at the low price, and wait and re-list it at another time when the market is better.  But, I'm also good with making good on the bid at that price ;)

I agree with hellot, the market is kinda saturated at the moment, smoothie's been on a spree lately so it's definitely a buyers market.

Oh, no disagreement there at all... Realistically it should be worth much more. 

I would participate in this auction, but I'm pretty sure I'm late and shipping is way too expensive IMO.

Considering around .075 per dime (in bulk), .1 face value, anacs cost..  .4 is very reasonable.  I too have money locked up in possible sales/auctions and have a bunch of dimes already otherwise id be on top of this one.  Hope it sells for you panthers

You still have ~34 minutes to bid :)

Well, I would bid, but $50 for shipping to The Netherlands is just too much. I recently received my group buy package for the Papersafe - Satoshi Note and shipping was $42 for a huge box with Track&Trace. This doesn't even come close to it's size.

I will need to ask BG4 about how he is shipping so cheaply overseas. However I did send you a PM regarding shipping.

I saw. Should have checked my messages before posting. I've replied to you.

Anyway, I bid 0.31BTC. ;D

I'll pop it up to 0.32 and see where it goes. 

0.33. I really want a graded coin for my collection. I have none of them and I can't allow that. ;D

^^^this is the current high bid.

Less then 8 minutes remaining. However if anyone else bids then the end time will be extended by an additional 15 minutes.

Pretty sure the auction is over. ;D

Just a heads up, I was unable to load bitcointalk for the last 15 minutes from multiple locations.  So someone who wanted to bid might not have been able to.

Ah man. Why does this happen when I'm bidding on something and I should be sleeping already (2:05AM over here).

The same happened with me. This means that I am going to have to take the loss, as I took the risk associated with having an auction.

I have more then one MS68 lealana tenth, so if someone really wanted to buy one then can PM me and we can try to work something out. The price would be somewhat above my reserve price though.

I am about to send you a PM.

This is the winning bidder. Congratulations on the awesome deal :)

Stupid Chick fil a kept me at work when all this bidding took place haha. Congrats Mitchell!

Congrats Mitchell... you'll enjoy this coin, it's a very pretty piece in MS-68, and I'm sure Panthers will miss it... :)

I somehow read this as a casascius auction and was getting desperate when I saw the B.I.N price. Anyway, it sold for a great price (on Mitchell's end) but I was wondering if this coin was funded by the buyer or creator?
I know it's got the black text, but it could have been part of one of smoothie's many auctions and then funded by the buyer before shipping.
That also leads onto Hellot's point where the market has become so saturated with Lealana coins (there's an auction almost bi-weekly) that demand and price have dropped a lot.
Anyway, nice coin and good deal Mitchell :)

I'm very happy that I won this coin. It's my first Silver Lealana (the one I have is brass) and my first graded coin. ;D

I'm glad you did too! It'll be nice to add to your collection. I have a 1 Litecoin Lealana MS-66 and it's my favorite.

That bolded word/name gave me a chuckle.

 ;)

I also call you "smoovie" when I say your name out loud.  I make up nicknames for everyone and I think I get this behavior from growing up watching Seinfeld.  Glad you got a chuckle! :)

Guys what I received today? Exactly, my Lealana MS-68! The coin looks amazing and I can see why it was graded this high. The packaging of the coin was perfect. The coin was put bubblewrapped and put inside a bubblewrap envelope. Furthermore it only took four work days (six days in total) to arrive here, because Panthers52 paid extra for express shipping so that I would receive my coin before going on vacation. I still appreciate that mate.

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I am glad your coin was quickly received :)

Be sure to take care of her

Will do!