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I've just bought a physical Bitcoin. Of course it doesn't have any monetary value, but it still looks great. Furthermore, I think it can be a very good way to introduce BTC to your family/friends: seeing it as a physical coin, I think they are more likely to become interested in "knowing more" about it. Who knows?

https://i.imgur.com/ET5PeC0.jpg

Do you have any physical Bitcoins?

If it is real, it has value and will probably have much more in the future (rare collectibles). Also if it is made out of fine silver/gold it will always have some value.

I have the original Kialara, 2 silver wallet coins and have ordered more. All are amazing. If you're really interested in coins, then you should check out Mitchell's collection with 120 items (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1261680.0).

Wow! That looks great. You are right, if you have a physical bitcoin then you will be able to make more people attract towards bitcoin because it looks really cool and everyone would love to have it.
Well i guess there is still a long time for me to have one like that in my hands :D

To be honest, I bought it on eBay for $3. It claims to be Gold plated iron: not sure how true that could be, but for $3 I'm very content with the purchase, especially if I can get my family and friends to start using Bitcoin.

Mitchell has an awesome collection, a good place to go and salivate.

I have a few of bigtimespaghetti's coins - the silver goxxed coins and an Unobtanium bar. Also have a few novelty bitcoins.

While these aren't exactly coins, I love having these in my collection: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=852488.0 (Bitcoin certificates).

I'm quite fond of my Casascius collection.

Well then it isn't really worth much. There are a lot of coins that are much more expensive than that (I think my Kialara was about $100). Take a look at the newer ones (http://www.maxfield.me/blog/).

I offer 0.1 BTC for everything that you own.   ;D

Yes it looks very good but for now the value still not really good, but in the future it will become rare collectible

I currently just good one from my friend, the value according to him is around 0.1 BTC

Unfortunately, not. I still dont have any of those cool physical bitcoins, but i am planning to buy at least one Casascius silver 0.1BTC coin these days.

Unfortunately i don't have any physical bitcoin and i don't want it because i like virtual bitcoin more.
I love it because it is a virtual currency.

I've never researched into physical bitcoins purely because I've had no need to & couldn't be bothered.

Couldn't you get your private key & bitcoin address engraved on the coin though, effectively then it would obviously have value as you could send bitcoins to it/them.

Is that what a Casascius Coin does ;D

There is picture in this thread:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1357829.0

hope they are real lol, maybe i could caught one at my next paycheck.

They don't need to do that to have value. You need to consider two things: 1. They are collectibles; 2. They are usually made out of pure silver/gold (sometimes graded). They will always have value which is most likely going to increase over time. There are some coins that have an address and private key in them, albeit they are art pieces (Kialara; you kind of need to break it to get to the private key). There are also coins such as the Silver Wallet (http://silverwallets.com/shop.html), that come with a coin slab in which you can easily add a new address (with QR code) and a private key.

Wow .. What was the original form of bitcoin and whether it official?
Where did you buy it? I want to buy it, it's very nice shape.
Perhaps if it could be used to purchase it so amazing.

There can't be a "official" form of physical Bitcoins. Bitcoin does not have a central authority; who would proclaim it the 'official'?

You can buy various ones on the forum.

Bought it on eBay, but you can buy one on the forum as well.

No I don't have any physical bitcoins.
Bitcoin is pure digital therefore I also explain it to people this way if they are interested.
Very often you see news articles where metal coins are used to give Bitcoin a face.This is ok but still confusing new interested people in the beginning.

Very nice coins, mine (design 2, #42/100):

https://i.imgur.com/D8KJXwX.jpg

I would like to get some made of copper or silver.  Do you consider a paper wallet physical Bitcoins?

I'd like to mention that provenance is important to some collectors as well. Having a pgp chain of custody document can increase sell value, especially if it is a "one owner" coin.

its is casascius?how much the value in bitcoin?i really want to buy it,but i dont enough funds :D i just have accecories or just souvenir shape like bitcoin,its limited edition :D

No, man, it's no Casascius, but it's still good looking and affordable ;)

Haha. Maybe they can figure out a way to have this 'actual' coins have some digital identities. Like QR codes etc.

those stuff can be worth a tons in the remote case all this thing about bitcoin will be died and maybe forgotten, one never know

but for now their market does not exist, because bitcoin was designed to be only digital, for obvious reason

At first I thought it's one of the expensive one's, just like the one's go on sale on this forum, but since you mentioned only for $3, then that explains why it doesn't have too much value. Could you post the other side of the coin as well in case their different? I think it would be good gift to friends and family (make them go nuts, thinking it values as 1 BTCitcoin - sort of prank :P ). I normally don't get amazed by these coins that much (don't get me wrong, I'll be starting to collect some soon) but the one Lauda posted a while ago: http://www.maxfield.me/blog/  It's without a doubt, the best I've ever seen so far. Anyone knows who designed it?

No offense but if it has no value then why get it? Is it just symbolic? Because you like it? Like a medallion?

Wow! it looks attractive more than gold, I like it and wish to buy one like that, but currently I have less amount,
Can you please tell me how to buy it and from where can i buy it? I am trying to collect bitcoins and will store them in physical bitcoin, it will be a great way for storing bitcoin.

Exactly, it's just a symbolic coin.

it looks awsome im getting myself a physical bitcoin too just to look at it :D

I don't have any of those physical coin but i have paper wallet just in a shape of paper money which exactly have around 0.10BTC. I have laminated it to make it water proof.  ;)

i never had it but i wish that i could get one sooner or later

I don't have one, no. But it is on the list of things I am going to buy, another thing on that list is a hardware wallet, will decide which one when I am ready to purchase. I know designers who make jewelries and I can probably get one made out of gold.

I don't have one, but I'm thinking I want one now. They seem like they would make a really good poker card topper/card protector and conversation starter at the poker table.

I am just curious about these physical coins, if they come pre-loaded and are used can they be reloaded at a later point? I see these come up for sale on the forum and/or Ebay at times and am wondering if they are sold primarily as collector pieces or if they can be put back into service?

no i dont have any of those but it is pretty easy to make one, just print bitcoin logo and a private key on the other side, thats it

Wow nice coin how you know if a coin is real and not fake. And is 1 coin the same if the price of 1 BTC?

Nopes, I don't have a single physical bitcoin, but really would love to have one in future, I am not sure whether that would be possible for me or not, but at a moment I am just busy in earning digital bitcoins.

now I don,t have physical bitcoin. this is impossible for physical bitcoins only you can feel . you can,t touch with hand in bitcoins

I don't have yet. Having a physical Bitcoin is for those who wants to advance to the next level of collecting Bitcoins. It costs a lot for if your an avid collector, price of coin does not matter.

no i have no bit coin in physically .
and it is also useless according to me.
because the advantage of bit coins can be seen clearly according to its profit .
and i don't think that there is any profit also to buy physical coin.
i think we should buy gold coin that would be great opportunity for our future also.
and it is not necessary that we have physical btc coin or not
but we should have some btc in online. wallet .

Introducing Casascius coins {physical Bitcoins as you put it} to you family, is very different than introducing a digital token. They might be even more confused after you show them the physical coin. We try not to associate the two with each other, because Bitcoin is just a digital token.

The Casascius coin is only a collectors item like anything else, not a representation of the Bitcoin currency.

i have some lealana 0.10 - 0.25 -0.5 and a casascius aluminium, i'm on the way to buy other...love this stuff

i haven't physical bitcoin, but i like it a lot, unless the price, is too high for me

While that physical coin (medallion) may be cool for a conversation starter, using it to introduce people to Bitcoin would indeed need a good conversation behind it. Someone who doesn't know what Bitcoin is, or maybe has only vaguely heard about it, would walk away even more confused thinking bitcoin was another coin like a silver dollar or something.

For me, I guess I would fall into the camp where a paper wallet would be the closet thing I would have to a physical bitcoin.

It might hurt if you give it to the store and both you and the cashier confuse it with one euro. big mistake.

Yeah we would love to hold physical bitcoin in our wallet, but at a moment I don't have any physical coin, and I don't see that I would be holding in near future, and I am satisfied with the digital coins that I am holding.

I doesn't have physical bitcoin. It looks good as equal to our local coins.
I have decided to get one. Does this coin can be used in any stores that
accept bitcoin. What minimum value does the physical coin possess.

Is that true, the physical bitcoin is also exist?
i was told that bitcoin is a virtual currency, but it is amazing to see its physical existence. will it work?
and which country will own it as its national property?

no i dont have physical bitcoin,because i dont see any benefit to have it,and i will little hard to sell it sometime,because so far i just earn and sell bitcoin.

This is a good collectible coin.Although I don't have any at the moment but sooner or later I will buy one undoubtedly.Also instead of just a collectible coin ,you could buy an actual off-line wallet,which would actually serve the purpose of having a physical bitcoin.As Lauda as mentioned you should be checking out Mitchell's collection you will be amazed.

I think physical BTC makes to understand the concept harder... It should stay always digital not physical...

Wow, i'd love to have atleast one. Its nice to have a souvenir/stuff like that. Im going to buy if ever I earn a lot ang collect them all.

I do not have any physical bitcoin and no idea yo buy one.
I agree with you! cryptocurrency should be in the form of digital only. If physical bitcoin exists, then what's the difference between fiat and cryptocurrency?

I don,t have physical bitcoin . I hope not any customer have also physical bitcoin . bitcoin is only you can feel same like internet only you can use

nope, i don't have it and actually i was so interested to buy physical bitcoin but i don't know it will useless for me or not because physical coin only could be collected and can't be use for any transactions

Perhaps if the physical coin can be used for transactions would be more fun and we can buy whatever we want with the physical coins bitcoin.
Maybe if it was true that there was very enjoyable and I hope it ;D

So it would be like a useless token?
Then why not have a bitcoin t-shirt? I can help you with that.
And it will be more visible for people.

No I don't. But I really want to get one or two of the real coins. Maybe I can save up and get them in pure gold.

Little more than a year ago I bought a bunch of small silver commemorative bitcoins, just bought them here on the forum.
I can't remember the seller.

I don't know about that.  I think introducing someone to bitcoin with a physical bitcoin--especially if they have no idea what btc is about--would be confusing.  They'd link bitcoin with a physical coin, which it really isn't.  I can't stand news stories about bitcoin where they feel they need a picture in the story, and it's always a gold-colored token with the BTCsymbol on it.  There doesn't need to be a fucking picture in these stories.

Anyway, unnecessary though they are, I do like some of the coins.  I especially like the ones made out of precious metals, and as what'shisname up there said (can't go back, clown will eat me), coins made out of gold & silver will always be worth at least melt value.

Wow, that's nice physical Bitcoins mate. How much the price for that physical bitcoins ? I don't have one though, because no one sell it in my country. Maybe i will buy it when somebody sell it here.