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Edit:

As of Sunday April 30th, 2017 at 1215PM Hawaiian Standard Time this giveaway is now officially closed. Any email requests that were made after this time/post will not be honored nor sent.

Any remaining brass coins out of the 1000 will be given away at the upcoming Consensus 2017 conference in person. If you are interested in meeting up with me just email me at smoothie@lealana.com and I can organize a meet up within the confines of the conference.



Introducing the Monero brass coin giveaway. It is a DIY XMR brass coin with TWO holograms marked LASER MARKED “UNFUNDED MONERO GIVEAWAY” or something similar.

https://i.imgur.com/ywkqNJ9l.jpghttps://i.imgur.com/pnQAlull.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/e2FEX7Cl.jpg


This brass coin giveaway has a simple purpose, to get people talking, spreading, and sharing monero with others. It could be used as a conversation piece or just as a tool to assist in educating others on how the technology backing monero is powerful/useful.

Requirements for eligibility

Anyone can request ONE free single brass XMR coin. Send me an email to SMOOTHIE@LEALANA.COM.

One coin per shipping address and per person. Please do not attempt to get me to send multiple coins to a single person who has access to multiple addresses. I will not ship more than one coin to a specific address for these giveaway coins.

I reserve the right to not ship giveaway coins to any user for any reason.

Given that this is a giveaway I will not make a point to hear out any complaints of coins not received as this giveaway is simply that, a giveaway at 0 cost to the receiver. Any number of things can happen during transit and I would prefer to just ship out the coins and not have to worry about who got what coin and who didn’t.

Coins to be shipped via USPS first class mail.

Shipping information in this EXACT to be submitted as follows to my email (smoothie@lealana.com):

FIRST & LAST NAME
STREET ADDRESS
CITY, STATE, ZIP CODE
COUNTRY


How many giveaway coins?

1000


When will they be shipped?

Honestly, when I have time to get them out. It could range from 7 days to 30 days or more . It all depends on how busy I am and how many requests for these coins I get.

Nice one! Great way to spread Monero awareness around.

Also great way to get people into physical crypto.  :)

Sounds really cool.

I really liked the design of the hologram, it is going to be an epic coin :), keep this thread alive so people can upload some pictures when they get it.


Thanks for the giveaway smoothie,I have already sent you the email.

Really nice, already sent email(i live in sweden).

In my eyes, this giveaway failed before it even began. Good luck to the others willing to DOX themselves for 1 coin.

Thanks for the giveaway smoothie!

How does the giveaway fail? It is simply that...a giveaway...

If someone does end up getting multiple coins they would have to fool me into thinking they had only one address but using multiple emails and multiple physical addresses. And even then what will one person make off with? Maybe 2-3 coins?

The person requesting the coin does not have to send me their real name, how would I know it is their real name and thus doxxing themselves in the process?

I'm not into data mining people's info if that is what you are getting at.

It's relatively *simple*, just keep a public list of orders before shipping anything out. Obviously you wouldn't ship for "Lauda" to "Satoshi" if Lauda did not ask/confirm this. This would work for *confirmed* members, but alt accounts could stir trouble with PO boxes and whatnot.

Rule 1: Never trust anyone.

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Good luck with this anyhow, at least it's free.

If people have multiple PO boxes then great they must have enough money and time to try to fool me into thinking they are not the same person.

Secondly I am already ahead of you....SEE BELOW:


Same ^ goes for my giveaway coins. Don't accept free coins, if you don't trust me.  :D

I don't think that many people are going to do that, but yes, I guess some people will get more then one coin.

The only solution is to ask for bitcointalk.org account that registered at least 3 months ago and has at least xxx posts or something like that.

Anyway, I dont think that a lot of people are going to ask for more then one coin, so even if he ends up giving 5-10 coins in total to people who already received a coin, its not a big problem.

I contemplated that, but I thought that it would be simple enough to decipher whether someone was trying to game the system by them using similar address locations (city, state etc). But I wanted to open it up to newbies as well.

It's a giveaway so if some get more than one coin it is as you said, not that big of a deal.

Hi Smoothie!
first of all thanks for being so kind guy!
i have sent you an email and will wait for my first physical coin ever!
that will be my start of collection :)
subscribed for news

Very smart to do so, to keep it up fair.
I hope i will fit the requirements if rules would be changed.
but in other hand i have 80 posts and 6 months activity, so it is something :)

Is there a price for a single coin so we can buy more? :)

Yes it will be a separate post I will make for assembled/unmarked coins.

If you want a Monero brass  this is your chance.

Fine way to spread awareness.

Nice one Smoothies and thanks :)

Mail sent

Viz

Hey Smoothie,

Thank you for the giveaway.
Just sent you a mail. :)

Regards

I think it is a good marketing move.  Imagine getting a thousand interested coin collectors' emails..with the potential for future sales...who just got a free coin.

As for doxxing, isn't that a little over-rated?  As long as one isn't doing anything illegal, does it matter if someone has any contact info?  I gotta be on so many marketing lists myself. 

(BTW my first name really is Tom  8) )

Sending email now, Smoothie.  Thanks! :)

Awesome ! thanks Smoothie for doing this for the (Coin)Community

I've send you an email

Great, I'll claim my free coin when I buy some unmarked ones.

Wow nice coin and giveaway Smoothie did also send you an email regarding this. Would be nice to receive this beautiful coin.

How do we know if we are accepted to receive this Monero Coin, do we receive a reply on the email we send or will you publish a list.

Nice giveaway  :)

I've send you an email.

Thanks !

Hey Smoothie,

Thank you for the giveaway.
Just sent you a mail. Smiley

Regards

I likely won't reply to emails as it would be too time consuming. But if you made a request via email before the coins run out then you should receive it in the mail at some point. No specific time frame as there are likely going to be many envelopes to ship out.

Thanks for the interest

Hi smoothie,
Thanks for this Giveaway, i wrote you an email too  8)

If you have any other future Plans on Coins or Collectibles like this, im able to engrave all metalls also Brass with HighRes Pictures, Text or anythink else.

Greetings
Jon

Just submitted a coin request to your email. I'm really looking forward to this as it will be my first physical coin before hopefully many more!

Sent you an email for a coin, thanks. Hopefully you can ship to Canada. Really looking forward to this, as it will also be my first physical crypto coin.

I value my privacy but will be applying to get one.
I have an address that all my mail goes to that has no connection with me and it won't be my name on the parcel.

Do you think the people that purchase goods from the darknet marketplaces dox themselves everytime the receive a package?

I will send my email today, hopefully i can find you pgp key without too much trouble.

Shouldn't be any trouble at all, it's linked in his sig :)
https://bitcoin-otc.com/viewgpg.php?nick=Smoothie
http://pool.sks-keyservers.net:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x9AB257BFA764D833

Thanks Lutpin i can be lazy sometimes.

Email sent and the waiting game starts  :)

Thank you a lot for this Thank you for the giveaway smoothie !

this is really kind of you, and indeed a super promo for monero educational purpose !


Kind regards

defcon23

Wow, cool! Thanks smoothie! May I ask rusty the what the reason for this giveaway is? The recent price rise of monero? Sending you a PM now.

I love this.  Is there a decent how-to with best practices for creating the private keys to work behind the hologram?  You're releasing hundreds of these into the wild, this might be useful.

Best tried and true method that I have used was posted here, it's slightly old, but probably all still valid  https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=583449.msg8246348#msg8246348

Also, for the less paranoid/technical, this site could be used offline to generate keys etc.

https://moneroaddress.org/

These coins were minted in May.

I've just gotten around to one of their purposes in this giveaway.

The idea was always to further monero awareness.

Currently they are meant to store the private spend key in base64 format. There is only enough space to store such a key of this size.

I do not know of a publicly released version of software that does this. Although there may be one that exists that I'm not aware of.

The alternative would be to store the hex version of the private spend key (half on one side and half on the other bit that may cause problems when attempting to redeem and get the hologram off of the paper insert.

Looks like there is time so I may end up releasing a version of my software that does this. But as of right now I can't promise that just yet.

As you can imagine just shipping these will take some time.  :)

edit: On second thought you could use a site like http://tomeko.net/online_tools/hex_to_base64.php?lang=en to convert the hex private spend key to base64.

I can't vouch for the accuracy of this site. It would be best to test the conversion and redemption process with a tiny amount of XMR to see if the conversion works. You could even do it on testnet so you don't lose any funds that matter.

Also be advised that using a 3rd party website could allow for keys to be compromised. Do a test... Of course you could possibly load the page, then disconnect from the internet and input your hex string (generated from moneroaddress.org offline) to convert to base 64 then print it and close the page etc.

**Please be advised that I am not offering this as actual advice to use but more as options for those who want to assemble a DIY coin with the brass giveaway coin.

You have an email smoothie. ;)

Email sent.   Thank you smoothie

mahalo,
bithalo

Hi, is this giveaway only for USA? or you ship outsite the USA? I'm from Italy and I don't understand if I can join this giveaway.. Thanks!

I have a python script I edited to create random 30-character mini-keys.  Not sure if there's any interest for me to make it public, but I may share if there's any need/want for it.

Sent an email your way. Thanks for doing this. I really wish you luck with this. I remember when I got into LTC and you had a significant part in that too! Keep up the great work :)

IF USPS can ship a 1 oz first class mail letter sized envelope to your country, you qualify.

Is the face value on the coin 5XMR? Would be worth noting so I can pick up some XMR and fund these coins when you start selling them :)

Yes face value = 5 XMR

Yeah I was wondering if I could get 1 monero virtually since I don't want to bother you as much as mailing a coin to a sanctioned country and they might think you are helping us to build nuke somehow :) .

I don't know why my addy is too long lol :

43c2ykU9i2KZHjV8dWff9HKurYYRkckLueYK96Qh4p1EDoEvdo8mpgNJJpPuods53PM6wNzmj4K2D1V 11wvXsy9LMiaYc86

Also is there a need for payment ID by any chance? I don't know exactly how monero works and I'm using " coinwallets " .

Great!
really nice idea.
good way to spread Monero awareness around.
I mailed my information to you.
thanks in advance

Sorry but this giveaway was for an unfunded physical brass xmr coin that you can choose to or choose not to load with your own XMR

send me :D nice projet  ;D ;D ;D

Already signed up for the giveaway back in your announcement at the alt coin forum! Thanks again!

could i get one please?
i would like create a paper wallet for my self and store moneros off line.

Cross-posted from reddit:

Update: Still working on getting everything organized to ship.

Had to order bulk envelopes, making a small paper insert with information on monero and the coin.

Also need to mass laser mark sheets of holograms with "UNFUNDED MONERO GIVEAWAY" or something like that.

And the last thing I can think of which is time consuming is hand writing all the customs forms for international customers.

This is why I gave a timeframe so wide as I had an inkling it would take me some time to get everything moving.

I may have missed something in my list of "TO DOs" but that sums it up for now.

Will update here once I have something to update on.
:)

Just curious how many have been requested so far (ballpark it)? I would assume shipping will cost you as much if not more than the coins.

My wife volunteered to hand write them all. She thought it would be more personable.

One of the goals of this giveaway was to do it correctly the first time, not necessarily fast.

And also if we used stamps.com wouldn't we would be disclosing people's addresses to 3rd party websites without the consent of the receiver's permission?

Never used that site.

Once I'm at 1000 requests, I will announce it so that way people know the giveaway is finished.

No rush smoothie, i'm sure nobody getting a free nice physical Monero coin will complain about a little shipping delay.
Sounds cool to have a special hologram made for the giveaway coins, great idea and can't wait to get one.

Hey smoothie,

I sent you an email and pm a couple of days ago, don't know if you received it. Didn't know whether to respect an email or not. Email started with ga and ended with a@gmail.com.

Very cool deal, sent my email and looking forward to the free coin!   :)

Shipped a pretty large batch of international giveaway coins today.

For those that receive their coins, please reply here in this thread.

Thanks

Thanks for the update! And well done, packing and shipping for free to international/local users is a nice touch, 1000 times.
I bet everyone is looking fwd to them, cool giveaway!  ;)

Good day OP!
It's a very nice giveaway.
Is the giveaway still on? Or you have already completed the 1000 persons? And if it still on, am I eligible? I'm from Philippines.

It is still on. Yes Philippines is okay.

Once the giveaway finishes I will post here in this thread.

Thanks I'll be waiting for the coin as well!

Guess your the first one to receive a coin Hellot !
great to see these are shipped out.

I'm in the SF Bay Area for those curios.  Thank you smoothie!

Great stuff. Thank you for this giveaway, smoothie :)

I have been interested in a set of your XMR coins for a good while now, but do not understand monero at all, which has prevented me from pulling the trigger.

This free coin will allow me to become acquainted with XMR - test out how it all works, do some small transactions once I know what I am doing, so that I can the fund this free monero coin with the face value of 5 XMR!

Once I have managed to complete that successfully, then I will be looking at getting a set of the 25/50/100's :)

Your plan of spreading awareness of XMR is working here ;)

Thanks again!

I am interested to get myself a physical coin for free. Judging from what others said, I think that the shipping is also free - please correct me if I am wrong.

(I am from Singapore.)

Yes it is free, assuming your address/location allows for USPS first class mail delivery.

Awesome.   They look really nice! Maybe that means I will be receiving mine in the next few days.  Thanks again!

Damn son, this is really nice :D.

Got mine today, super cool!  ;D

BTW, what size is this coin? 28mm or 29mm?  I noticed it's slightly smaller in diameter than your brass bitcoins?

Thanks again! :)

I cannot wait for mine to arrive, but I'm sure it will take a while because it has to get to Europe first. :-\

I just sent you an email on Sunday containing my mailing address.

I live a long long way from United State (I assume). I think mine will probably takes about two weeks considering the size and weight of the item. Thank you by the way. :).

hello
nice giveway!
I hope not too late, sent email just now.
Letter introduced myself as zazarb.(email n*******k@gmail)

thanks

It is approximately 28.5mm.

Glad you got the free coin. Thanks for confirming it here.

 :)

Keep in mind that it takes me time to get around to newly submitted coin requests. Your coin may not arrive for possibly 4-6 weeks depending upon how busy I am and how slow/fast the mail carrier is.

I haven't even gotten through all of the international ones as they are very time consuming given the customs forms I've had to fill out and also had to wait in line while USPS types these epically long addresses into their system.  :D

It is only the size of a quarter..or Cas brass to be more accurate. I had envisioned a solid ,. 1oz round, so with that anticipation, I was disappointed of the size...but the free factor quickly over rides all negative expectation... In the end,... I thank you smoothie,... for you generosity....I now own a physical Monaro coin...

Thank you again for your generosity
BG4
PaperSafe.org

Got my coin in the mail, thanks again smoothie :D

https://i.imgur.com/GdMf2xw.jpg

Got mine in the mail with some imperfections that I'd expect, but thanks for the giveaway anyways! I'll be filling mine up with Monero shortly, and then storing it in my collection. Delivery was quicker and the coin was better than some coins that I've paid for. I expected more people to join the giveaway as well. Well worth the wait :)

Did any one successfully received the coin from this giveaway to the Philippines?

I haven't received mine :(

Regards

I am not aware of anyone outside the US who has received one yet.

Be patient.. it will turn up :)

Same here, still haven't received them. International shipments were done last week so may take a little while. Hang in there. ;)

Received mine.  Thanks!

Size is about 30mm diameter (might be 29mm).  Like someone said above, I think it would be good if it were bigger but it's still pretty nice.
I've ordered some for gifts and am happy with it.

I plan on loading the giveaway coin after doing a vanity address search and hopefully finding a cool address to go with it.

Would also be interested in single Monero silver coins if they were ever on offer individually (can't really justify a three coin set right now).

Just received my coin. and i love it. Must become a collector !!

http://9gag.com/gag/aAwDOqp


Thankyou !!!

To be clear, not all international shipments were done (about 75 international shipped out in that first batch). Still got quite a bit to go out.

These are quite time consuming, so please be patient with me as I get around to them.

Thanks

Are there any more of these left?

yes

Hope mine was in that batch. And thanks for clarifying.  :)

Ah, that clicks. I really hope mine was in that first batch. Not sure how long USPS first class takes, but from here in Australia to the US it's around 11-15 days.

i have sent you email.Thank you in advance for this giveaway

Hey there, it takes more than 2 weeks to arrive in the Philippines :)

An International USPS delivery should take about 10-20 days,it all depends on your country.
Personally I have not received my coin yet ,but the mail here is pretty slow so I could not expect anything.

i have received my Monero brass coin !  Thank you a lot smoothie !  you rocks!  ;D

i will update my post soon with pictures  ;)

Thanx again dude ;)

EDIT:

https://i.imgur.com/Y8IPxi2.jpg

I'm in. Good thing you are doing here Smoothie

I guess it will take a minimum of 30 to maximum of 60 days until we get the package here in the Philippines.

Anyway, I'm still waiting too and I'm excited because this is going to be my very first collection from the world of cryptocurrency  ;D

Thanks in advance Mr. Smoothie!

Got my coin in today, thanks for the quick shipping.  Hoping I can assemble it this weekend and check out the shine on that hologram.  :)

That looks amazing! Can't wait until I get mine in, and thanks for the pictures, :)

looking cool in images.i hope i will also get soon.

Can confirm that I also received the free Monero Brass Coin in the Netherlands. Thanks smoothie for this awesome giveaway!

I got mine today.  I live in Florida, in the US.  Thank you smoothie.

Received my coin today (UK). Must have taken Smoothie a while to package all the coins since the addresses are all handwritten. Thanks! Much appreciated! :)

Holy shit, handwritten, thats really nice of him :3, and it will help with many people afraid of printers.

I think your were confused,as smoothie is not making Monero addresses and private keys.
He just handwrrited the shipping address,not the Monero address.
If you want to add a private key to the coin you can assemble it by yourself.

I received mine a few days ago.  It really is a very nice giveaway.  I'm very glad to add it to my collection.   I might have to snipe a monero 3 coin set soon. 

Yeah I was really skeetchy about 1000 addresses handwriten but i´ve seen stranger stuff lol.
However thanks for clarifying :).

I guess too or even more than 60 days and it's common in some packages we are receiving here in the Philippines. But no worries since the more important thing is we have a chance to receive it. I don't mind waiting. And this giveaway has limits so whenever we haven't received it here in our country it's fine. :)

Thanks for the giveaway and hoping that I can touch that coin soon.

Another batch of international giveaway coins will be shipped out tomorrow HST.

Thank you to all whom confirmed receiving the coin you were sent.  :)

Received mine the other day (actually, it's been 3 days now).
Reminds me very much of the 0.1BTC brass.
Little bugger that the holograms are branded "monero giveaway", but I understand the reasons for it.
Thanks alot, Smoothie. One of the coolest giveaways I've seen on bitcointalk so far.

Received mine. I am from Canada. Thank you so much smoothie!

thanks a lot i hope mine will be shipped in this batch

Nice promotion thank you.

You can always order a "funded" one to go along with it :)

Smoothie, do you still have these? I sent you an email but haven't heard back from you, yet.

Yes they are still available.

I won't be responding very much to emails or PMs about the giveaway given how time consuming that would be.

Once the giveaway is done I will announce it here and change the title of the thread to state such as to avoid any confusion.  :)

I received mine in the EU yesterday, looks really nice, thank you very much  :D

Thanks Smoothie ,You Are The Best
I received Monero today ,,

but how to assembling this coin  ?
https://s14.postimg.org/59jfh3jpd/MONEROBRASS.jpg

I'm pretty sure you just follow the instructions that are on the paper that was shipped with the coin in that packet right there ;)

Ah .. Ok very thanks for advise, but I still need an example ..
if you do not mind may I give an example  :)

Here is the master doing it -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NyzDY7NUOo

Thank you.
http://i.hizliresim.com/QvXbR3.jpg (http://hizliresim.com/QvXbR3)
http://i.hizliresim.com/X9WOBR.jpg (http://hizliresim.com/X9WOBR)

Do we need anything specific in the subject of the email we send?

Hoping to still grab one, sending you an email now with the subject "Monero Brass Coin Giveaway"

Thanks in advance!  You rock :)

Hi thanks i was received your brass

thank you very much  ;D

Email sent!  :)

I hope i could get one  ;)

Thank you!  :D

Sent an email 10 days ago, haven't gotten anything :( on the way? :)

Probably will take longer than that, since it takes a lot of time to process these. Anyway 10 days isn't bad, I've been waiting since October 15. (not complaining or anything, just pointing it out.)

Oh my god they look delicious  :o

Wish there were a way to confirm if emails are being confirmed/coins shipped/etc.

But like DarkStar_ said, I'm not complaining about something free (and the time spent by smoothie for doing this)

Again, to smoothie - thanks in advance :D

I am still waiting for my coin,the mail here is pretty bad so I am not suprised.
Anyway,not related to this thread,will it be possible to purchade some coins without the giveaway marked hologram?
Or either the same coin with another umarked hologram.
Thanks.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1661961.0

done sent email
waiting respone  :-*

Smoothie already mentioned that he does not respond to emails so I dont think that you are going to receive a response from him but your coin is going to be shipped.

-Smoothie-thanks for directing me,I will place my order in few days.

ok no problem
thank u very much  ;)

Hey there baby bears. Got my monero brass coin!

Thanks smoothie, looks hella fine!

https://i.imgur.com/JovHP9w.jpg

The coin looks great on the picture, I've send you a email with my address. I hope it's still available.  :)

Thanks! I've recieved my coin today, it's pretty cool  :)

Thanks! I've recieved my coin today, it's pretty cool


Thank you.

Just received mine today.

Thank you for the giveaway, smoothie. :)

I'll be sending an email sometime soon. Hopefully the 1000 coin limit hasn't been exhausted yet?!

Thanks, got mine today. I live in the netherlands.
Very nice looking coin, I'm propably gonna fund it soon.

Received my coin today  ;D I live in France. Beautiful coin and holos !! Thanks for the giveaway smoothie  :)

Received my coin and 2 holos today! It tooks 20 days to come in Italy (it was shipped on the 3th November), thanks a lot, it's awesome:
https://i.imgur.com/5m4hHaI.jpg

Pretty coin arrived safely in Australia.

Smoothie, thank you for your generosity - both your time and the cost.

Cheers
:)

I'm here in Australia too, but haven't received mine. Did you receive a PM or email when Smoothie sent it to you? I haven't received anything.

The coins really do look nice, I can't wait to get them :)

Received the coin today [Netherlands]. Thank you very much smoothie !

Just reporting that I received my coin yesterday. I live in Australia and only took 7 days to arrive as it was sent on the 16th. Thanks Smoothie for this giveaway.

You got it before me. Damn you wttbs!

Hi mate,

Nope no pm or email. It just arrived.
:)

I got mine a while ago, maybe 2 weeks ago or 3. I loaded it with 1mbtc and gave it away at my works secret santa.

Received the coin today, just couple minutes ago [Georgia, Tbilisi]
Thanks
Edited:
it includes free coins ?

Received my free Monero Coin and Holograms today in the UK.

Thank you very much smoothie, much appreciated! :)

What do you think the "unfunded" on the hologram means?

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Got mine today [Canada]! Will take a nice photo later, thanks for the giveaway!

I recieved my free coin a couple of weeks ago. Thank you for turning me on to Monero.

I received this beautiful coin some days ago to Italy. Thanks a lot for the gift, I am so happy to finally have a physical coin.

https://s21.postimg.org/8og5hyazb/P_20161117_121650.jpg

Thanks smoothie, great looking coin!

I also got mine free coin with holos end off last week, Thanks smoothie for that great giveaway !

still giveaways ?

I am confirming that i received a monero brass coin from this giveaway last week. The coin looks amazing and shiny. Thanks smoothie for the token.  :)

Is there still coins available?

yes. There is a back log of them to go out yet.

No specified timeline on shipping.

"Soon" is the best way to describe it.

Oh that's good to hear! Time is not an issue as long as there are still coins available. I sent you an email now, can't wait to receive the coin!
Thanks :)

@Smoothie, Thanks .Received the Coin today (Spain).

https://i.imgur.com/G8tZ0FG.jpg

Damn, I just discover this thread. 1000 coins is an epic giveaway.

Nevermind the shipping time, but do you know (roughly) how many of them have been claimed / how many still available?

Is it first come - first serve, or do you prioritise by country (lower shipping cost)?

Are you seriously funding this yourself, or is it some wider XMR community promo project?

There are still giveaway coins available.

It is a first come first serve basis.

Once they run out I will announce it here and change the title of the thread and OP to indicate it in big bold RED letters.

It is purely funded (the project, not any digital value in the coins) by me solely.

Very cool design! Are there still any giveaways available?

Edit: I see there is. I will email you.

I've sent emails, hope I can get this unique coin! :)

Received my 3 pack of coins as I participated in the auction.   They look great.  Thanks for running this giveaway. 

I've sent an email, hopefully one will eventually make its way down under ;D

Received mine a week back , really pretty coin! :D

Got mine too awhile back (sorry for delay posting)... very cool Smoothie, much appreciated.

P.S. {Edit} Pics Or It Didn't Happen LOL

https://s29.postimg.org/bpaevu6dz/5_XMR_COIN.jpg

P.P.S. By the way, what's the translation of the Hawaiian words around the edge of the coin? I'm typing it as, "A'OLE WAENAKONU - PILIKINO PONO'I - UILA 2016" and Google Translate yields, "Not Through - Personal Identity - Lab 2016" but that doesn't seem to make much sense LOL

Still nothing. :'(

Same here. Haven't receive my free Monero Brass Coin yet but I have a feeling that it will be arriving this week. :p.

(Or maybe my local postal service missed mine. :(.)

It means "private, decentralized, electronic".

Depending upon when the request was sent it may still be in my backlog.

As specified there is no timeframe on when it will ship or arrive. It should get there eventually barring it doesn't get lost in the mail etc.

Aha... okay cool.  Very nice, thanks again for doing this, ur awesome  ;D

until now no reply email to the certainty of delivery. :o

Nowhere did I say I would reply to emails for requests.

My Orignal post outlines this very clearly.

There is no certainty, only an attempt to get as many coins to as many different people as possible at 0 cost to them.


Please keep in mind this is a cost-free giveaway to those requesting the coin.

Great giveaway smoothie!

I've just sent you an e-mail.

Cheers!

can i get one too? i've jest sent you an e-mail too :))

Mine arrived

Thanks Smoothie :)

Appreciated

Viz

The request is surely demand and OP really have a long time processing those. Plus the fact that shipping period takes time resulting for some email sender thinks that their request haven't got yet.

Hope mine is on qued now. :) I have sent email last November 14. :pray:

Still havn't received mine and I have sent the email just few minutes after you posted.
Not complaining or anything as I didn't pay anything for that.
Would probably buy one if I wont receive it at the next few days.

Today I received your mail with three empty bags and three "what is monero" cut outs. So confused, but thanks anyways...Hard to be too upset since you were so generous with this free giveaway, but I can't believe that all three would have been taken in transit without breaking the envelope seal. Just glad I opted for the DIY version!

The plastic poly bags were empty?
 ???

That's some crazy shit right there, if the Transit Personnel opened your mail and took the Physical Monero coins after x-raying then glued it back up, then one would assume we have some Trolls that are on here that work in our Worldwide Mail Departments.....

I feel for you buddy as well as smoothie as it was out of the kindness of his heart then some conniving bastard decides to start taking the fun away with Christmas Surprises, it's just as bad as taking peoples money out of their envelopes that they send to their Grandchildren for Christmas.

Yes! Thanks for your PM, just responded! I just don't think it was tampered with, as it would be much easier to simply "lose" the whole envelope and not go to the hassle of taking the materials and having to seal it up again. (not to mention they might want the instructions)

Well, that is pretty worrying. I hope my coins don't get lost/stolen in customs. It's never happened before though, so I think it'll be okay.

Tomorrow (Tuesday HST) I will be shipping out a batch of US Domestic giveaway coins.

Later this week will be a batch of international shipments.

Sent you an email and I hope i'll be included in that International shipments. Happy Holidays!

Thanks for this giveaway smoothie. Received about 10 days ago! :)

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

Thanks for the giveaway
I would love to get one
thanks

Hey! Wanted to toss an update and let you know my coin came in! I sort of lucked out... had someone ringing my doorbell, found out it was a neighbor and they handed me a little envelope and just said "this came to our mailbox..." and walked away. Saw who it came from/location and was baffled by what it could be. Opened it and found out it was the coin!

Really happy the people who received it gave it to me. I never would have even known it came in otherwise, :).

Thanks, Smoothie!

Thanks for confirming when you get the coin.

As promised there was a rather large batch of international giveaways that went out a few days ago.

I had to drop off the box of them and leave it with USPS and it took them 5-6 hours to handle with a single person working on them.

Glad I didn't have to stand there for all of that.

Thanks for the updates, I am hoping there maybe is a international package headed to Aus in this lot  ;)

Confirmed, I have received the coin. I was thinking I would receive it the same time as bitkilo, though. Hope you get yours soon!

You already got yours, ah not fair man, lol. How long ago did you receive it?
I am sure it will just be the snail mails here holding mine bask.

Still waiting for mine, I'm sure it'll arrive in some time ;D

I don't even remember that well, haha. It was around the start of December if memory serves me well.

I guess being here on an island in the middle of the sea, half a world away from all the coin traders on bitcointalk, shipping can't be fast.  ;)

It happend to me that the mail letter that let's me know a package arrived to be lost so there is a chance some got theirs but they dont know it, havent got mine yet.

I PMed you twice but never received a reply regarding this. So, I thought I'd go ahead and post it here.

Is it possible that my coin be shipped to Minerjones as he holds some coins of me with him. They need to be shipped sometime soon to me. So, if I send you an email from my email ID and ask you to send it to him so that he can forward those with my other coins, would you accept?

I was away for a while but weeks or so ago I was on btct for just a moment and saw this thread..

I PMd or emailed my shipping info and forgot all about it.. Sent it to my moms..
She called me a while ago and told me I got a package that felt like it had a coin in it and it was this coin.. So I did receive it..

But we just finished my moms new house, got final inspections, and mover her and all of her stuff in, pulled her old house down with chains and trucks..

Now that she is all happy in her new house I have been nagging her to find this coin I got in the mail but so far no dice..

So yes I can confirm that I got it and thank you very much, but I have not scene it yet due to moving chaos lol..

Send email last November 14 and still hoping that my qued is on process now. Send it twice prior to November 14.

Anyways if I ever I won't get it no worries on my side. It's a giveaway after all for lucky members here and with lots of email OP is receiving, the chances of missing my email is really possible.

I will transfer to our new house now few weeks from now so the address stated in my email will not be my address so I asked the land owner here if ever there is a mail to me kindly informed me and I will drop off immediately. :)

I would suspect some may get lost in the mail. It is shipped USPS first class with no tracking or insurance etc.

I have had several envelopes come back to me due to them being "undeliverable" based on the address that was given to me. Those that have this happen to them will not be resent again.



You could do this, the only problem is that by me shipping this to MJ the coin may not get to him for over a month from now. There is no specified time frame and this would hold up your shipment from MJ.




Thanks for confirming.



If I am not mistaken I have cleared out and shipped most of the November requests. Likely your's was in the shipped batches.

I've to receive a big batch from MJ actually, and this can't be done in a single package anyhow. So, I'm okay with it. I'd like to request you to please send my coin to MJ. Either way, I'm gonna send both of you a single PM regarding this.

Regards.

Yeah it's a hard life living on an island separated from the worlds war and worries, although i will complain about the heat at this time of the year, lol..

@smoothie, It looks like i emailed back in October, any of the coins ordered in October still left to ship or are you just shipping them random?
(not complaining because who could complain about a free coin!)  :)

I second that with the heat, we've had a doobie with all sorts of weather this season I wonder what the middle of Summer will bring, more heat or maybe more of those crazy thunderstorms that wakes everyone up at 2 in the morning' ??? :D

On another note I don't think I've heard or seen the Postie in a couple of days which is weird, I wonder if they are taking time off and letting it build up and the price we pay for stamps these days..... :P

Oh really. That was great.

Hope my package is on it's way now :) I don't mind waiting for long. Hopefully one of these days Im a part now of those peoplewho received the coin and will gladly post it here.

Thank you :)

I did get a few returned as "undeliverable". Not sure if any of those were your's.

Otherwise they all shipped out from the October list.

Recieved my free coin today in the UK, from an email done at the start of November

All good. Thanks Smoothie. Very generous of you.

Wonders if the rise in XMR is really down to the new GUI, or if its from folks loading the coins they have recieved from you  :D

I got it today aswell, thank you very much! It's a biutiful coin!.
https://i.imgur.com/gxztWYG.jpg
Lol good one.

Thank you, Smoothie. I have received mine! (It probably arrived in mid November but I only recently received my stack of mail.)

I received the coin too. I didn't saw it yet, because it's my father's address, but he told me it's there. Thank you!

Got mine a few weeks ago - unsure whether I should load it up, or keep as is....decisions decisions...


Thanks so much, greatly appreciated :)

I have had a few coins and other items shipped to the same address in the past with no issues so maybe just a bit of bad luck this time.
If it turns up i will still let you know, thanks anyway.

Just sent you an email. As discussed earlier, please send the coin to the address in the email.

Thanks & Regards.

Got mine  :D

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Feeling like

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Arrived in Greece today! thanks a lot !!!  :)

I'm still awaiting the arrival of my coin :/
The package might have also been lost in transit.

Mine as well, I think I was one of the first people that entered the giveaway(I sent him the email about a hour after he posted), but I still haven't received mine.

Just a bad luck I guess, but anyway from what I saw this coin is purchase able, so I'll put few bucks to get it.

We can not complain as we didn't pay for the coin, it was just a gift :P

Yes exactly its a free give away so we cant complain.i also didnt recieve mine.

Received my sample! Awesome Coin! Maybe I am going to fund this one. :) Thanks smoothie

Finally got mine! Thanks smoothie! :D

Received today, looks very nice. Thanks Smoothie !!!

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Received mine today in Germany.

TYVM smoothie

I've received mine, thank you very much  ;D

I'm not received  :'(

why my request doesn't arrived?

Is there anyone who also didn't receive his coin or it's just me?
I guess that the post office in my country is one of the worst in the world.

thanks a lot smoothie.i also recieved mine today.

I received my coin today, looks pretty cool, thanks a lot for your effort  :)

Love it, thanks so much Smoothie!

 I got my coin today thank you very much. Totally forgotten the email i sent you to be honest. So it was more like a surprise to me today when my employees told me that i have a mail from the United States. xd

https://i.imgur.com/V65yBpd.jpg

Thank you very much! Coin received!

you still have the coin?
Can I reserve one?

Just Apply your address to email. Wish you not late for free moreno physical.

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Just Landing at my home, Thankyou Smoothie!!!

I had sent an email 2 months ago and I'm still waiting for the coin. Hope to receive it soon as I live in India and it takes a long to to receive international packages here.

I received mine a month back

 I've recieved my coin yesterday, really pretty coin. :)
Thank you for the giveaway, smoothie

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I thought I will never receive this free Monero Brass physical coin - because of lost during shipment. I am surprised to receive a package from my local postal service yesterday. The package is small and state that it come from the US. Then I guess it is the free Monero Brass coin. I haven't open it yet but will soon do. I got to get my camera ready first so that I can take a few photos and post it here.

Sent you an email :)
This giveaway is really nicely done of you, i will carry the coin where ever i go!

Thank you and have a nice day :)

When did you send an email? In November? If so then I guess my shipment is lost in transit. :(

I just received the coin and it looks awesome:

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Sorry as the pic quality is not so good. Thanks a lot Smoothie for this coin and God Bless!

email sent :)

email sent :)

Really nice giveaway! Email sent. Sure hope there are still some left!

Email sent! Hope there are still some left haha.
Very generous offer.

Received my coin a month or so back but never posted about it.

Thanks smoothie it's always great to get something for free! You're doing your good deed for society  ;)

Guys you will need to be patient with deliveries but this is a great opportunity to grab yourself some great crypto memorabilia.

Hello I'm very happy yesterday I got my Monero Brass, I was thinking I get denied the Monero giveaway y but surprisingly today I received a packet with the token, I'll post some photos below.

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Congrats and nice coin!  Smoothie's a stand up maker and this giveaway is something special.  I'm glad to have participated earlier and hopefully everyone receives their coins in the same condition as th3nolo.   8)

Finally, I received mine yesterday.

Thanks a lot for this giveaway smoothie, it was more then just a pleasure to participate in.
Very cool coin, gonna send it as a gift to a friend of mine.

Thanks again.

If anyone has funded xmr coins coming through, I would highly recommend that you ask to send it registered/tracked and in a padded envelope. I ended up getting an empty envelope today, with just the instruction paper in it. It's not smoothie's fault or anything, but let my incident serve as a reminder to everyone that your items are not always safe.

Members could apply for one ?

Got mine too, thanks smoothie

Any plans to have an unfunded brass version of your silver Monero coins? Maybe 1XMR or 10XMR version?

I really like the design but don't like the idea of funded coins / can't afford them. I would definitely buy one for like $20.

Me either.
Maybe we are both from Israel :D.
The post office here is pretty bad, so anyway I could not exprct it to arrive on time.
Anyway, everything arrives at the end.

The envelope was empty? You did not inquire with the postal office? You should have complained because it's their fault if the parcel has been tampered with. Even sometimes tracked items are lost or damaged and I've too received the courier where the entire parcel was open including the product inside. 

The envelope was empty. I went to the post office, and an investigation is being run. They said that it was broken when it got into the country, but there really is no way of knowing where it was tampered with. I will just have to keep following up with the investigation.

smoothie sends everything registered and tracked and in a box.  These freebies are the only coins he has sent in a plain envelope.  I own many smoothie coins.

He may have chosen not to have it sent that way - Sometimes customs gets snoopy. :P

From op of the brass coin sale thread:

How long does it usually takes for them to deliver? I sent my email on 20/11/2016 but it hasn't arrived yet.

I sent the mail on 4th-5th November and the package was sent by smoothie after a month or 5 weeks. I received it on 13th-14th Jan 2017 which is about another month. You should expect the parcel by next week or by 10th Feb if everything goes through in time.

I didn't notice this before.  I've probably received a dozen or so packages from him and I don't recall having a choice.

UPDATE:

Currently there is a pretty large backlog of giveaway requests that will be going out in the next week or two.

I've gotten several undeliverable addresses and the envelopes were sent back to me.

As the giveaway gets closer to ending (the 1000 brass coin limit) the order in which requests are made will be in the order they ship out. Once the limit has been reached I will post in the OP and modify the thread title to note such.

Please keep in mind that if you haven't gotten your coin, any number of reasons could be the cause (lost in the mail, theft, returned, undeliverable).

There are many things I have no control over given these are being shipped first class mail with no tracking/signature etc.

I will not resend shipments of giveaway coins that do not arrive in the possession of the requestor.

I've gone through my email requests and have spent many hours getting these packaged and shipped out. If they get to you, they get to you, if not, then someone else has your coin... :-[

All for now  :)

It doesn't get any more fair than that, thanks again smoothie, it's very much appreciated! :D

smoothie, can you tell us approximately how many freebies have been sent out?  I'd love to know and expect others would too.  You mentioned coins getting lost\stolen and I think that's great.  I wonder how many people have inadvertently been turned onto monero because of you. =)

My last count that was sent out was around ~560.

I have like 300 or so backlog of requests.

So i'd wager to say I'm closing in on 900 or so if you count the ones I haven't sent out yet.

Hello, I have send you a mail whit request but I don't have received any reply .. thanks

Hey Maicol792 he isn't going to reply every email,just ship the giveaway coins. You just have to wait for it.

still available ? I'm very interested   :o

Me I think last 14/11/2016 or close to that as far as I remembered. I send 3 times. Looks like I will give up now lol. But if this is still open I will send again an email if smoothie will allowed me to do sending again and if the giveaway is not yet closed.

Really eyeing for this giveaway since last year.


Thanks for this statement. :) We understand.

ehh ok it's normal not reply about more more mail... but my question is: i'm in the list for receive it or not? ... thanks

You are almost out of coins!  Thanks, smoothie. :)

Sent you an e-mail request Smoothie.  Coins look amazing and I'm really hoping my letter finds the fastest wind stream & reaches you in time!!

got mine over the weekend. Thank you @smoothie!

received my Monero coin today looks great !  thank you

Received my free coin, loaded it, put the hologram on it and gifted it to a friend 8)

Thanks smoothie, nice coin!

Just received my bronze coin. It is awesome to find 2 holograms and a slip with instructions of how to attach an address to the bronze coin. Thanks a lot for the giveaway. This is my first physical coin about crypto currency.  :D

I received my free coin yesterday.
Thanks Smoothie.
It Looks great!

And what language is this?

Thanks!

this giveaway still going on? :-[

Received my coin today to Austria....  Cheesy
thanks again for this great coin.

awesome. I have just received my coin today. Thanks a lot. What an awesome coin. It is so beautiful

Congratulation for the coin ... I waiting if my coin arrive :)

Coin arrived germany, many thanks

Coin arrived. A big thank you!!!

Received my coin today in Germany. Big Thanks!!! :-)

Today i have received coin in ITALY!!! BIG BIG THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  :-*

Thank you Smoothie! I received the free monero coin yesterday (Philippines). Cool~

http://i.epvpimg.com/Gkaxaab.jpg

I totally forgot this but after about 2 months the coin arrived.
Thank you very much  :)

Checked the mail today and seen an envelope.... it was that moment then and there that I realized what it was... opened it up and behold my precious ;D

Thanks for the surprise smoothie ;)

Thank you. I received my coin in Ukraine)
http://prntscr.com/el7br4

It was a surprise to receive the coin today to Tunisia  ;D ;D

Thank you @Smoothie!

coin arrived this week. thanks!
Do I have to load it with own monero? because I dont have any moreno

No you don't have to do anything.

Just enjoy the coin/holo  :)

I will now give up to my hopes. :D It's been 4 months now.

Can I request for the fifth time? Or if this still open and not yet reached the max numbers of coins to be given away? Hope I can request for another one. :)

You are welcome to try. If I end up noticing duplicate addresses (or incomplete addresses) for previous requests I will likely ignore them.

I have no control over if the coin gets to the person requesting it given they are shipped USPS first class mail.

Ok Im sending a request again. Hope this time it will become succesful. 8)

Average waiting time I think in my country is 1 month or maybe longer than that but I will wait.

Thanks again. :)

Thank you smoothie. My girlfriend received her coin. Here are some picture:
https://steemitimages.com/DQmSJZZ5rtw3zVqfQfGDHUqFzLQcyb7puNvUgSEJx2kHa2v/Moner02.jpg (https://steemitimages.com/DQmSJZZ5rtw3zVqfQfGDHUqFzLQcyb7puNvUgSEJx2kHa2v/Moner02.jpg)
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The coin looks great!

Again, thanks a lot, another step to get her more interested in cryptocurrencies.

Thank you smoothie for the coin, I was surprised to see it in my mail box. It was held first by customs but they released it after paying some fees and when I opened the envelope, I never thought I would receive such a nice looking coin with a personalized markings. This really made my day!

https://i.imgur.com/1Y2ktLTm.jpg

I placed it right beside our local 5 Peso coin for size comparison. Thank you so much!

Hey if I sent in a request would I get an email letting me know I requested in time or will I just be surprised one day at the mailbox?

No smoothie doesn't reply to emails on this - you will either get it or not depending on shipping etc - he hasn't announced it as closed so keep up the hope. Cheers ;)

You will not get notification from OP that there is a coin on the way to your mailbox. That's what happened to me. I have no idea that there is a coin and I received a letter from our local customs telling me that there's a parcel waiting for me to be claimed in our city postal office. The coin is free but the fees that will be collected by the customs if there's any is not.

Hopefully its not too late I´ve sent an email, lets see  ;D

Sorry for the little late feedback but, i received my coin few months ago.
Very nice looking coin and great holo, thank you alot smoothie for keeping this giveaway.

Hello. Was there a private key with the coin? I only have the two Holo brands and a guide with an example. But no private key. On the envelope, it says, that the content has a value of 5 Monero.  ???

Sorry for asking over one year later but i wanted to load the coin to give it as a gift.  :)

No the coins were sent without monero loaded on it. You can use the instructions to make a new private key to load the coins yourself and insert it on the giveaway coin.

Thanks! Was just wondering because on the envelope was written that a value of 100$ is inside.

It was a bit late maybe but I just filled up my physical monero coin with 5 real monero! I wish I've done it sooner but hey its always better late than never. It is also that I couldn't resist the low btc/xmr price so ;)


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