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Interested and I would like to see a picture without glare of the front of the coin.   :)

Congratulations ! this is a really nice coin..  8)

Interested, and reserved !

Thanx.

Kind regards.

Sure. We really need to get some professional photos taken. For now here's a couple of non glare ones we took :)

http://s6.postimg.org/6x2sruxdd/image.jpg http://s6.postimg.org/njkd0xqb5/image.jpg

Much appreciated, that is exactly the picture I was looking for which shows the detail without the full glare.  8)

If anyone in the USA wants to split a 10 pack let me know. I am willing to do a small group order if enough are interested.

Reserved one.  Sending a PM to confirm.

PM sent. Are these numbered?

I'll go in halves if there isn't much discount for larger orders. I am waiting for a reply on bulk pricing.

I'd be interested, but really only want one coin myself (and maybe one of the first gen coins).  Still wanted to voice my interest. 

Looks like the only numbered coins are prototype coins #1-100 and are free when 5 standard coins are purchased (1 free for 5 original purchased).

Shame the originals aren't numbered, I prefer numbered coins :).

FYI the shipping does not work right for USA.

Thanks for explaining.
As Hedgy pointed out, only the prototype coins are numbered.
We considered numbering the coins but decided against it for multiple reasons.

Sorry about that.

What do you mean? Please explain and we will try and get this sorted as soon as we can.

I think we need at least 20. I am in for 5.

Here is what I get when I go through the checkout. 20 rounds should not cost 0.7492002 (roughly 172USD) for shipping. It should be more like 20USD. 


Seller: SHIBANU LTD
Product: SHIBANU 50K Physical Dogecoin   Delivery type: Shippable   Quantity: 20   Price per unit: 0.07932708BTC   Price: 1.58654160BTC
   
Royal Mail (Regular Shipping (up to 5 coins))
0.74920020BTC
Total: 2.33574180BTC

Thanks for pointing that out. We noticed that earlier and are trying to find ways of sorting it out. The reason why you see it costing that mix is because it is charging you for delivery for each coin.
I'll post an update once that is fixed.
In the meantime, if anyone wants to make an order, we can sort something out via PM.

Thanks :)

Payment sent for my reserved pack of  5 + 1 numbered.

Thanx again & best wishes with your sales  ;)


Kind regards.

Great. A few more people in the USA wanting to join the groupbuy and we can order. I am waiting on a shipping quote. PM me if you want in on a small USA groupbuy. If Blazedout419 is still offering organize a small group buy, then I am happy to hand this back over to him. I am in for 5 unless we need a few more for a bigger discount. Otherwise, let's try to wrap this up in the next day or so.

You can handle it..I want a few myself. Put me down for 3 of them please.

Sounds good. I have you down for 3. Anyone else interested PM me.

Edit: I will start a separate thread for the USA groupbuy. There are about 15 coins left if anyone wants to join.

Edit2: Order has been placed. There are still 15 coins up for grabs for USA/Canada buyers who want to save on shipping. You pay for shipping within USA/Canada plus a flat rate per coin. PM me for details. If there are any left over after the holiday weekend, I will create a thread for the groupbuy. Escrow always accepted.

Edit3 [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1171528.msg12335433#msg12335433 (http://[https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1171528.msg12335433#msg12335433)

All current orders have been packed and are ready to be dispatched.
Below is a photo of the back of the coins as requested by one member via PM.

Is that a 1cm depression for the private key? It looks like the guide here http://cryptoimperator.com/en/diy-guide/ (http://cryptoimperator.com/en/diy-guide/) would work for these coins as well. I would just add that it is much easier to use masking tape to pick up and position the hologram.

That is a 12mm recessed area for the private key insert. The guide you have linked above will work for our coins, although we are working on our own guide which we'll post in this thread.
Any circular insert up to 12mm in diameter will fit in our coin.

Thanks for the helpful link and advice :)

can you be more specific on the "GOLD PLATING" part?

Is it the entire coin that is gold plated?

If so, what purity of gold?

The entire coin was dipped and is gold plated.
To be completely honest, we paid out supplier for 24k gold plating, however, we didn't have any way to test this, so we didn't want to specify 24k without having any proof of this.

If someone knows of a why in which this can be tested, we'd gladly listen or even send a sample to a trusted member who can test it out.

Thanks :)

I'm very surprised how cheap the coins are being sold at if they are in fact dipped completely in 24k gold.

 :o

I stand under correction but I don't think they were completely dipped in melted gold as such but rather a solution with gold ions, which then gets deposited on the coin because of the cathode/anode thing.

Dipping in pure melted gold is expensive, and at least to my knowledge somewhat uncommon.

Thanks for helping us clarify this.
The coins were plated using a common process known as electroplating. This process uses electrolysis to deposit ions suspended in a solution on the coin (as explained above).
There are some pretty good descriptions online about how electroplating works, but if you have any more questions, please feel free to post here or send us a message.

Thanks :)

Most orders have been shipped. Larger orders are shipping on Monday. :)

The simple answer is no. We minted 500 normal coins (although less than 500 will actually be sold).
The 100 prototypes were coins we never planned on releasing. They were made in error and we had to buy them from a manufacturer we were working with originally.

I hope that helps explain :)

Can you post a picture of the limited edition?

I would say there are perhaps a couple of small differences, but nothing drastic. As far as I remember there was a small change to the coin thickness which may have effected the weight of the coin.
I could be mistaken but I'll have someone look into it.
With regards to metals, both are pretty similar although we paid for 24k gold plating for the official coin (please see posts above with regards to this).

The other differences are more aesthetic. The finish of the coins is very different and so is the quality. As pointed out earlier, the design itself changed. Additionally, the prototype coin features a square recessed area for a private key whereas the other coins have a circular insert slot.


There is a photo of this coin in the second post of this thread.

Thanks :)

I've been busy and slacking with BitcoinTalk lately, but these look pretty sweet and I'd be interested in picking one up sometime, if anybody in the US has an extra they'd sell or trade for.


Unless there are new forum rules that I'm not aware of (which there probably are), I would just try posting them again but hosted from Imgur.com. Imgur hosted photos work great here, while other hosting sites usually show up as a banned image link. Even if you can't post the photos again until you are a Jr. Member, I recommend remembering to use Imgur. I don't know why so many other hosting sites get blocked here, they just do.

Also- Welcome to the forum and nice work on the coins! Looking forward to picking one up sometime.

There are 3 left in the groupbuy. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1171528.msg12335433#msg12335433 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1171528.msg12335433#msg12335433)

I have received my Shibanu's coins today . they're just beautiful. Thanx   ;D

i will take some pics and i'll upload them ..

-The "regulars" coins are just beautiful.. the holo too.

- for the numbered ones:  there's a real difference with the regulars.. and have some little imperfections .. ( look the dog .. )   i definitively prefer the regulars..  ;)

so:  on the left the regular coin  &  on the right , the numbered one.

( sorry for the poor quality of picture, ..; i have to take that with my phone..)

https://i.imgur.com/RVU9lFx.jpg

You can see the number engraved in the lower middle section of the one on the right. Thanks for the pics defcon23.

 the right is the numbered one.

and no , they are exactly same size...  it's a very bad pic.. sorry  ::)

  yes Pistachio  ;)  & you're really welcome !



Edit:  ho.. i forgot to mention  this :  i my pack , there was one missing holo..  i had contacted the op to explain, and i received an immediate answer in regard of this little issue:

 
so Thanx again to the OP for his good work !  + 1 for you.

Glad the coins arrived :)
We are still accepting orders. Feel free to PM us or use the link to our listing in the OP.
The shipping error has been sorted and should now work fine.

Please also follow us on Twitter: @SHIBANU_
We'll be using social networks to promote discounts and promotions in the future :)

Coins arrived in good order. Thanks for the fast shipping.
http://s13.postimg.org/viiimsy1v/IMG_8325.jpg (http://postimg.org/image/viiimsy1v/) 

Wow! That was quick :)
We are still taking orders.
Check out our listing on Noobie.io. Shipping information has now been fixed :)

https://noobie.io/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=656

another point i have forgot to mentioned:

the back of the numbered coins  is different, for the holo place.. with a quater instead of a smallest circle for the regulars coins..

look:

https://i.imgur.com/8wGjZ4R.jpg

and this is the regulars  back .. :

https://ip.bitcointalk.org/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fs6.postimg.org%2Fnmn2q44fl%2Fimage.jpg&t=556&c=8Tn3A0jn4kn6VA

That is probably one of the biggest differences.
Should we make a second series of coins we may actually use a square private key insert to also allow us to use QR codes.

Obviously that'll mean creating a new hologram so it will only be viable once we sell out of these coins...

yeah , i personaly prefer having a better place  like square instead of a small 1cm circle  to put a private key and (or) a QR code ..  ;D  

anyway thanx again for clarifications  ;)  i will vote for a serie 2  too !!


edit:
OP ,  just a suggestion:
what about adding a poll on this specific question in this trhead... ?

Very cool coin. Best way to purchase is through the noobie.io link?

You can use the site to place an order for as many coins as you'd like
We charge the same shipping fee for up to 5 coins whereby any more than 5 you'd be charged for 2 shipments. However, we can offer couriers for larger orders.
We also give special pricing for orders based on quantity so if you intend on buying more than 10 coins do send us a PM :).

Regarding a series 2, we think that it will only be possible once all these coins sell. Having been said, we've got some crazy ideas that we hope we can bring to reality should demand for it be sufficient.

You know you want (at least) one of these.
We'll be stopping orders temporarily next week (holiday) so be sure to get your orders in now for fast despatch :)

We are terrible sorry about this.
We make sure that all the coins we send are in good condition so I'm not sure what happened here.
We agree that the coin pictured is unacceptable and we'd gladly replace it for you at no cost. Please PM us your address and we'll get one shipped out to you.

With regards to the other coins, some will have some small marks/scratches as those came about during the manufacturing process. There's not a lot we can do about that but we try to ensure that only coins we deem acceptable are shipped out.

We do not categorise any of our coins as the rarest of them all. The prototype coins you are most probably speaking of are included in larger orders as a token of appreciation. We never planned on releasing them as therefore they come packaged as they were direct from the manufacturer.

Anyway, please do send us a PM. We are really sorry about this and hope we can help you sort this out.

Thanks

Sounds good. Thanks. Appreciate it.

I received 2 Shibanu Dogecoins from a trade with Pistachio and I must say I really like them! They look great, and they're honestly much nicer than I had expected. The only thing I noticed about my 2 coins is that there were 1 or 2 slight fingerprints on them, but that didn't really bother me. However, this is sometimes a common occurrence with a new crypto coin maker's first batch of coins (even Mike C. handled the earlier Casascius coins by hand). I would recommend handling the coins with vinyl/latex gloves in the future (on the next batch maybe) when assembling them or putting them into flips while packaging orders.

About the film residue on the coin flips that IBGigglin mentioned- while I cannot comment on that because I don't know the details of the situation nor am I involved with it in anyway, I will say that I ship coins in Non-PVC "Archival Safe" flips that I buy from JPsCorner.com. Even though these are supposedly some of the best flips for long-term storage of coins without any damage being caused by bad plastic/PVC, I have noticed several times that they come with some sort of oily-looking residue inside. I know they are good flips with good ratings by coin experts, so I don't really worry about it too much.

I took a few pics of the coins as well I will try to post them to the thread when I have time!

Ive removed my complaint. Alot of it was frustration and the one damaged coin is what made me mention it but if they say they will help make it right. Good on them. Thanks.

Thank you for your helpful posts.
We are really sorry about this.
We ask that everyone please remove their coins from their flips to prevent any damage. (Unfortunately it seems we didn't et everything right. We are new at this).
We are trying to work on sending out free replacement holders for all the coins.

Thank you for your support.

Nice to see good after sales customer support, well done :).

Hey, I'm not mad at ya at all. I would have definitely mentioned the brown streak on the one coin as well. Most decent & respectable coin/bullion dealers will always replace a damaged or scratched coin, etc. And it looks like Shibanu is doing just that so it seems Shibanu is starting off on the right track with solid customer service as hedgy73 said! Good on them.

I'd be looking to buy a few more singles soon if anyone in the US has a couple they'd want to part with. Will probably be in a week or two, but feel free to PM early.

I'm going to throw up one or more of these Shibanu Dogecoins on my little eBay 'store' just to add a new crypto coin listing and start filling my stock back up on there, so I snapped a few pics to share in the thread because I was very pleased with my two coins! My total # of listed items on eBay is currently pretty sparse. eBay is what I sell on the least out of 3 or 4 sites though due to the high fees; my stock ebbs and flows. I enjoy selling coins, silver, gold, and physical BTC and other cryptos on there. Eventually I'd like to have 1 or more physical cryptos of like 10-30 different varieties/companies on there all the time, and be known as The Place to look for legitimate (and not outrageously priced) physical Bitcoins and crypto coins on eBay, like cflow01 (bitguy101 on here) is (or used to be?) on there. Physical Bitcoins and cryptos are my favorite items to sell on FeeBay. I enjoy trying to hook up international Bitcoiners for cheap too with cheap shipping costs.
Anyways, what I was trying to say is that I cropped these pictures and put my eBay watermark on there and other brief words because I was getting them ready for eBay. So just ignore the words, and sorry if they come out too big. I've recently been trying to keep my pics full size for higher resolution when selling on eBay or Reddit, so that people can click for full-size and details.

https://i.imgur.com/Q4XCHMI.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/9hbwzhu.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/hbXvMfs.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/nLjDU37.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/vWizILR.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/CYYPrPt.jpg

If the pictures are getting blocked by those damn BTCTalk image hosting blocks, or just not showing up, you can Click here for an Imgur album of them. (http://imgur.com/a/KNFdf) There are a few more pics in there too.

Great job on Shibanu for making some fine physical Dogecoins on their first batch! Welcome to the physical crypto community on here! I'll be looking to stack up on some singles or a pack soon if anyone's selling or wants to sell/trade.

I got 3 of these coins and am very happy with them. I think for the price the quality is really good...much happy many joy. I really like it when people come up with nice coins at really good prices. I think you should charge an extra $1-$2 and include air-tites though. Recently I prefer the square ones with black for some reason.

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

Can you recommend a cheap supplier of these air-tites?

I just use eBay for them and buy like 50 at a time. They are really cheap...also when I ship coin in for grading I yank the air tites.

I live in Europe and I buy them directly in the USA https://www.air-tites.com they stock all sizes and really good prices.

I think the single best place to buy Airtites online is www.JPsCorner.com.  They have a great selection of anything you would need for coins, and the best prices. They stock the Airtite brand and have cheaper prices than the actual Airtite website. Supposedly the guy that runs JPsCorner is part or full owner of the Airtite company. Their packaging and shipping are on point too.

Thanks! We're glad you like them.
The PVC issue with the flips we were sending out is definitely a potential problem and a risk we'd rather not take. For the moment we are just trying to replace all the flips with safer and cleaner ones.
We've already places an order with a U.S. supplier to ship the SAFLIP Archival double flips to Pistachio who organised the group buy. We will also be paying for the postage of the flips to the individuals in the group buy.  

We are also working on getting in touch with all our customers and trying to get new flips sent out to them.
Ideally, having the coins in an air-tite as you have pictures above is best. However, we wanted to keep the price down and therefore we went for the more affordable option. The flips are more of a short-term storage solution.

In the meantime, we will also look into buying some air-tites and offer them to customers when buying their coins at a small cost as you have recommended.

Thanks for all the help and the comments. Credit to both Blazedout419 and Snarlpill for some great ideas and recommendations.

Kudos to Shibanu for taking steps to provide an even better experience for their customers and being very responsive! I agree with Blazed, sourcing some good Airtites and offering them for a dollar or two extra would be a great touch. PLUS- Shipping coins in Airtites is pretty much The best way of getting coins to their destination without damage.

I will say though I know a lot of people that ship coins and bullion, and while flips containing PVC are not recommended for long-term storage, these "experts" have said that PVC flips shouldn't cause any damage if just used to ship them from point A to point B. If I remember correctly, PVC damage is caused more over the long term, and I believe silver is more susceptible with it anyways.

TLDR; If the coins are only in the softer PVC flips for the short term, like during shipping, the coins should likely be fine. I didn't mean to cause a big scare to anybody!

It wasn't damage as much as it was a thin film that was easily polished off with a microfiber towel. It gets pretty hot where I'm at maybe that had something to do with it. Either way, no worries. Ill just keep the stained coin and sell it as an error coin next year.  ;) ..kidding don't go staining your coins kids.  :)

Well let us know if you want the coin replaced. We're only a PM away. ;)

Just a little update with regards to things. We've placed the orders for our replacement flips and all US customers (who bought directly from us) are getting their sent out. We're also working with Pistachio to accommodate those in his group buy.

We're also holding out on accepting new orders for the next couple of weeks while we're away. All outstanding orders will be shipped in the coming days. We've paused our listing on noobie.io so don't panic if you can't find it. It'll work again once we resume business when we get back.
We will still be online throughout this time so if you need to contact us feel free to send us a message!

Thanks :)

P.S PMs are still being sent to those on our order list regarding the flips. Don't panic if you haven't received yours yet.

New coin flaps arrived today for the USA groupbuy. I will be mailing these out on Monday morning. Here's a pic,
http://s10.postimg.org/k6i4vq6k5/IMG_8342.jpg (http://postimg.org/image/k6i4vq6k5/)

Thank you for all the help Pistachio!
We will be back next week to resume business :)

Link is now live. Here it is for reference (https://noobie.io/Collectibles-Arts/Collectibles?product_id=656)

That is great! Thanks for sharing the story. It brought a smile to our faces :)

I agree, awesome story! I would be willing to bet that was the first and will probably be the last time that someone approached that lady with a coin bearing a stylized portrait of her dog!  :D

@Shibanu- I really liked the 2 coins of yours that I received in a trade from Pistachio, great job on your first series! Hoping to buy a few more soon if possible.

Thank you for your kind words. We are glad that you like them.
Remember that we are only a PM or website click away ;)


It looks great! Happy to see someone using their wallet already :)
A little tip for next time, print the firstbits a few times on a number of lines. You can also use tweezers to hold it in place when applying the hologram. It doesn't always stay straight though as you can see from our pictures in the OP.


Haha. We were waiting for someone to ask. These coins are part of the 500 and some are currently being kept away. We intended to sell loaded coins at first but decided that we would only want to sell them if they were perfect. These coins have different private keys (some have a full 64 character private key and others have shorter mini keys). When we tried cutting the keys, we did everything by hand and the cuts weren't so clean. We were worried that the keys may have been illegible so decided against selling them.

Hopefully that explains it :)

Accepting orders...

Thanks to Jsmit332 for the great banner!

https://i.imgur.com/CrSDYit.gif%5B/img%5D

Do you still get a proto-type coin when you order 5 or more?

Yes. For every 5 coins you get 1 free prototype. So 10 coins gets 2, 15 gets 3 and so on  ;)

More coins have been sold.
Place your orders in now while stocks last :)

Pulled the trigger on 5 today via noobie. Got the confirmation from coinoayments, but not from noobie... . Should be fine I think :D


Can't wait! Happy thanksgiving, all!

Hey, thanks for the order.
It has come through on our end. We'll try and make sure it gets in the mail Monday morning.

Thanks :)

Hello world!
Just checking in here.
We had a pretty busy Black Friday weekend with over 50 sales! - Most of you should have received your orders by now.

We've also heard that a couple of members have sent in their coins to ANACS for grading and have gotten some pretty neat grades. If you have any photos of your coins, we'd love to see them!

We've also just done a latest inventory check. Supplies are limited so make sure you get your hands on some coins before they run out.
Hint - over half the limited edition coins are gone!

Thanks for the pics!
Anyone else have any they want to share?

FLASH SALE! FLASH SALE! FLASH SALE!

To celebrate Hanukah, Christmas and in the spirit of giving, starting today we will be hosting random flash sales for the next few weeks...
These flash sales will be operated on a first come first served basis with limited availability whilst stocks last.


These will be one off deals varying in price and quantities...

Today's flash deal:

There are 3 2 rolls of 10 'normal edition DIY' coins available. (Each roll comes with 2 of the 'error' coins)
The cost of a roll of 10 coins is $120 in BTC - Savings of $60!!!
Shipping is available worldwide for an additional $10 (including tracking).

Be quick!

Yes it would :)

Anyone want to go in halfway?  I just need one prototype, so I dont mind splitting up an order in half or more.  I'm in the US.

Any of the Dutchies interested in a group buy?

One roll left at this price!

That's a good deal. These coins are grading really high for their price, check out the highest grade so far http://www.anacs.com/Populations/CertVerification.aspx?cert=4701044 (http://www.anacs.com/Populations/CertVerification.aspx?cert=4701044) and a few for sale at https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1187809.msg12497303#msg12497303 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1187809.msg12497303#msg12497303).

I wouldn't mind having one, maybe even two if I could get one of the two error coins. :P

We can split the roll? That would give us both 5 normal coins and 1 prototype for $65 each ;D

I don't need 6 coins though...

Sell em! ;D

Too much hassle. ;D

Wow! Some nice coins you've got there. You also assembled them well. If you want a job assembling coins for us, let us know ;)


Of course you do... Everybody needs coins :)

I agree, Mitchell really needs those coins ;D.

It's that time of year!!!
If you're in the UK we can ship with next day delivery so you get your orders before Christmas Day. Make sure you place your orders ASAP.
*For the rest of the world, orders will take slightly longer to arrive.*

Great! We are happy you like them :)

Thanks!

We have some exciting projects we are working on. We can't say anything specific yet as we're currently in the talks with designers and manufacturers.

We are also thinking about setting 100 of the current coin series aside for us to assemble at a later date. This would mean that we will have even fewer DIY coins available. Make sure to get your orders in ASAP! Remember, every order of 5 coins gets a free 'prototype' coin (while stocks last).

 :) :) :)

We'd like to wish the entire Bitcoin and crypto community a merry Christmas and a happy festive season!

Happy 2016 to the entire community!!!
Here's to a year full of health and happiness!
We hope that in 2016 we will be able to continue to be part of this amazing community. We have some amazing things planned and we cannot wait to share it with you. :)

You know you want some coins... Once they're gone, they're gone!  ;)

How many of you are interested in buying assembled coins? We are considering assembling the last 100 coins of this series but we'd need a new hologram to differentiate the assembled coins to the DIY coins. We were thinking of going with the same hologram in silver but this would cause us to have to charge quite a bit more for the coin... We're open to suggestions though :)

It wouldn't come loaded with the 50k DOGE. We would ask for payment + 50k DOGE and then we would load it upon delivery. We could also load the coins with the face value at the current rate of the buyer doesn't have any DOGE. The reason for the higher costs would be that we'd need to pay for a full hologram production run and the cost of this would have to be absorbed by the 100 coins. Normally speaking, a high production run would mean the cost would be spread more evenly over a greater number of coins. Here however, the low number of coins would cause the price per coin to increase.

I would be interested if the hologram was different as you described

The problem with selling the assembled gold ones is that people could simply use their DIY holograms to replicate the coins.
Say our firstbits show a wallet address starting with DG30oC1a, anyone who has a gold hologram can assemble their own coin and replicate these firstbits to give the impression that their selling a coin funded and assembled by us, where in truth the coin could have no private jet underneath whatsoever.

We need to find a possible solution to this to ensure that this won't happen. Our best option would be to use a different hologram that we will only use on assembled coins. However, a new production run (without design costs) could range between $700-1000 alone. That would bring the price of each coin up by $7-10 simply because we'd need to divide that cost between the 100 coins.

Have you thought about collaborating with gravitate or mrbrt to use one of their unreleased hologram series on a limited edition set of your coins (50 or 100 coins)? Since they are already produced, the cost would be significantly less.

As good as a suggestion this is, users could simply take their prototypes and use their DIY holograms to produce assembled 'prototype' coins.

coins...

We have been in talks with gravitate with regards to future colloboration but nothing in connection with our current series. This could be a possible option although as far as we know, both manufacturers do have some holograms that were released non-assembled which takes us back to square one.

If one of the above have some holos that they only used on assembled coins then it could potentially work.


That is what we were thinking too.
With regards to the laser engraving, that is also a possibility although anyone could laser engrave their holograms. We'd need to do some more research as we currently don't own a laser engraver.

Thanks for the suggestions guys! :)

MUCH WOW! SUCH GROWTH! MANY NUMBERS!

The DOGE price has risen by over 62% in the last 24 hours!!!

Buy a Physical Dogecoin today!!! Don't miss your chance :)

Edit: Make that 77% Growth.

All pending orders have been shipped :)

We are working with a user on the forum to design something awesome.
We're still going through the ideas stage but we've got some great ideas and sketches.
We will have to count how many 2015 Dogecoins we have left. Sales have slowed down for the last two weeks so we're not sure if producing a new hologram will be a viable option. We may just assemble 50-100 coins and sell them with a COA.

Just put in my order for 5 + 1, they look exceptional and I can't wait to add them to the collection.

^Bumping this thread^

We have reduced our prices to $15 per coin for the next 5 days only...
Send us a PM if you want to place an order.
We have exciting news that we can't wait to share. But when we do, these special prices will be no longer  ;D
 

Let me guess something : a new serie of coins ? Are the prices of these nice looking physical coins negotiable ?

Yes and No. You will have to wait and see.  :P
The price of each coin is non-negotiable. However, we offer larger discounts for large purchases. We also have an offer running that includes one free 'prototype' coin with every 5 coins purchased.
If you are interested in placing a larger order, please send us a PM.

Thanks :)

Interesting and too bad. The idea of the free prototype coin is interesting. The picture of it appears for me as an invalid proxy error. Can I get a new link please ?

The photo on the first page should be working :)
There is a much better photo here though (credit: minerjones)
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1168463.msg13177542#msg13177542

At long last, we have some news!
We received the holograms from our manufacturer last week.
However, due to a fault with the hologram master, the holograms came out slightly damaged. We tried sifting through the holograms to hand select the best, but too few passed our quality checks...
We spoke to our manufacturer about this but they weren't helpful and we ended up having to pay them more to remake the holograms after they remake a new hologram master. This will set back the release of the assembled coins to July 2016.
We can confirm that the assembled coins will be limited to 100 coins only and will sell for $20 per coin.

Due to the unexpected extra costs involved as well as the manufacturing cost of our next product (it's epic), we need to raise some funds.
We initially set aside the first 10 prototype coins to stay within the company. However, now that things have changed, we have decided to use these coins to help our company grow.

The first 10 coins (out of the 100 prototype coins) have been assembled by us using the best holograms of our last batch. They aren't perfect, but they are far better than the others we had to dispose of.
There will only ever be 10 prototypes assembled by SHIBANU. These coins are not for sale, but are being offered out for every 10 coins purchased on a first come first served basis.
Once these coins go, they're gone for good.

The coins come assembled with a silver hologram and are closed in a Leuchtturm/Lighthouse everslab.
These coins will come fully funded too!

Pictures of said coins can be found below.
The current price for a single DIY coins is $18.
The price for 10 coins is $16/coin excluding shipping.

We'd like to apologise once again for the delay in releasing the assembled coins. We really wanted them to have been ready by now, but unforeseen circumstances have prevented this from happening. On the bright side, a member of our team has been working closely with bigtimespaghetti on a new product and it is awesome. We are just waiting to get the renders back from the manufacturer before we begin production. It's definitely something worth waiting for :)

Thanks to you all for your continued support!

SHIBANU

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You meant July 2016, right?

Also, I don't get why you have to cover any extra costs to do with the holograms if the company creating them didn't get them right the first time. Unless you had to approve the "hologram master" before printing and it had unforeseen defects? Any other manufacturing issue expense should be covered by them, they're meant to be the experts..

Will these ones be numbered, unlike the ones from the previous serie ? If so I'd like to reserve some. No problem for me to pay an extra in order to do so.

Concerning the prototypes, except the holograms, will something change ?

I'll take one of every version you are willing to sell me! ;D

Yes, we meant 2016 :)
We spent a long time negotiating with our manufacturer. They had a duty to tell us that there was an issue with the hologram master, but they failed to do so. As much as we argued, we saw it as a lost case. The best deal they offered us was in making a new hologram master and discounting the total cost by our last order. However, the cost of the new hologram master is significantly larger than the cost of our last order alone...

Even so, we still think that it's going to be a great deal at $20. The coins will also come in a Lighthouse square capsule with an insert :)

The assembled coins w will release in July will be exactly the same as the DIY coins in terms of design. However,  they will come assembled with a silver hologram. This hologram will never be sold or distributed and will only be found on coins we assemble ourselves.
Unfortunately we do not have the right equipment to engrave the coins.

The prototype coins will not change, however, we will never assemble any more of the prototypes with the silver holograms. There will only be 10 of them in existence. They are also the first 10 numbered coins out of the 100 prototypes that were made.

:)

If you're inter seed in buying some coins, please send us a PM.

All other PMs will be replied to in the next few minutes.

Thanks

So I have to conclude that coins from #1 to #10 are the prototypes ? If so I'd like to reserve number 1 or 7 :P.

Number 7 is available. Send us a PM and we can take it from there :)

I will take 10 coins, and #1 prototype

PM'ing now

Coin number 4 has freed up again.
Coins 6-10 are also available.

We apologise for the delay in updating you with tracking information.
All tracked and untracked parcels have been shipped. Tracking information has now been sent out via PM.

Thanks  :)

That looks great! Thanks for sharing a pic with us :)

I've received my package as well and that assembled coin looks great, but it has some marks (https://i.imgur.com/opBRENe.jpg) on them that shouldn't be there. They look like ('s and my coin has quite a lot of them. It seems that the normal coin don't have this issue.

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Oh that does look bad!
I hope mine are not like these :(

It looks like Minerjones' coin has the same marks. Aren't the assembled coins prototypes? In that case those marks would be 'perfectly normal'.

Why would it be 'Perfectly normal' ??

Is it made like this?

Well it is kind of cool though :D

That is correct, but why would it be perfectly normal for an assembled coin? I've seen quite a few prototype coins, but never one with this many markings.

Well, prototype coins are usually mockups so flaws are pretty normal. It's hard to tell from the picture but markings like that can be caused by the mold.

Though those marks look bad but since only 10 of these exist and if all 10 have those marks... it shouldn't be a problem other than while grading if mistook for scuffs...

It looks like some clarification is needed.
The 'markings' found on the coins in the pictures above are perfectly normal for the prototype coins in question.
As stated in our second post (see page 1) these coins weren't actually intended on being sold.
We still do not sell these coins but rather offer them as promotional freebies when an order of 5 or more coins is placed.

The markings shown above actually came about during production.
The coins themselves are made of a zinc alloy.
After the coins had been struck, they underwent the gold plating process. The method used by the mint wasn't perfect and they plated the coins using a brush plating method instead of the preferred immersion electroplating. So in short, the ) marks that you're seeing is where the brush 'strokes' ended and thus appear slightly different from the rest of the plating on the coin.

Hopefully that clears up any confusion.

Thanks :)

I see! That does clear up the confusion and I like having the backstory thanks! ;D

Much Wow. Such Happy. Many Bump.

Atlast got my SHIBANU's :D

Awesome

Thanks

We are glad that you like them.

With Bitcoin at a new price point, buying one of these is next to nothing! Make sure you get (at least) one whilst stocks last!

We are halting sales of our DIY coins for the time being.
We have something awesome in the works and until then we will be primarily dealing with the sales of our assembled coins.
The remaining DIY coins will be sold at a heavily discounted rate in a couple of weeks. Stay tuned for more!

You held an auction for five (5) rolls of these coins that ended on the 9th of August.

I won 3 of the rolls, you Pm'd me with details about payment etc. I replied that I could transfer you the funds that totaled 0.546BTC later during the night.

I received no reply from that one, but I sent the payment on the 10th of August. I pm'd you directly after the payment with Txid: c96a1c97b43c4d9413f3b744b116f861f0e961a51e6c3cdd51fdfc0d537612cd aswell as my shipment info. This was done on the 10th of August.

I still received no response from you, and I saw that you were online on both the 10th of August aswell as the 11th of August.

It has now been 4 days since the auction ended (which you locked btw) and 3 days since I sent you the payment. I demand a response from you.

And what happened with the raffle you would do where anyone who made a bid would get an entry?

Hhampuz

what ?   the auction thread were locked and you havent got any news from the OP after sending him your postals details  ( and paid him by the way ... ) ? ...from  4 long days now ?.... i cant beleive it..  :-X  ( even if august is an holidays month , i mean forum's phones alerts should works everywhere...   ::)

Yeah. I understand people have vacations etc, but then atleast tell me about it. Hoping he'll respond here and clear things out.

Your order shipped on Friday and we have sent you your tracking information via PM.
We are sorry for the lack of communication. We've been both understaffed and burdened with work so we apologise for any trouble and inconvenience caused. 
Regarding the raffle - we are still waiting for partial payment from one of the users. Once we receive a payment confirmation we will proceed with the raffle as posted in the original thread.

Thanks

It's time for us to close our doors and enjoy the summer!
We will be away for the next week but we will be back in business by the start of the following week.
All pending orders have been shipped and relevant tracking details will be sent out shortly!

Thank you and we hope you have a fantastic summer!