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This auction is USA based

Starting Bid: 25BTC
End Date: 5/7/2017 23:59:59 MTN
Payment: BTC paid through escrow by Casascius
(for a buyer paid transaction fee of .2BTC over the final bid)
Other Info: After close of the auction I will deliver the coin to Casascius and share contact information with the buyer We will come to specific terms regarding a complete and amicable transaction.
If you have any questions or concerns please ask.




https://i.imgur.com/b7D6juF.jpg https://i.imgur.com/MSUtXgS.jpg

Are the scratches on the obverse on the coin or the plastic?  Any chance of a photo with the coin outside of the flip?

Thanks for including the pictures MinerJones, I'll never get it right:)

Does Casascius offer escrow services? If so I've never seen that, and if he could confirm that'd be awesome.

Did Miner Jones bid? Is there a minimum for bid increments? 0.1BTC?

25.0000037

There should be a confirmation of escrow by Mike - PGP signed message would work. 

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA512

May 2, 2017 re: escrow 25BTC Casascius coin for Shawn Shira

Hi, the sentiment that I don't normally offer escrow services is correct, but I've known Shawn 15+ years and will be happy to do this.

Portion of a valid Bitcoin address for me that I've reserved for this transaction: 18HUZvyDQskjC......Dmh3WyHzMu9mH
Or I'm happy to be 1 party of a 2-of-3 multisig wallet using CoPay.
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Comment: GPGTools - https://gpgtools.org

iQEcBAEBCgAGBQJZCSUKAAoJEFou6PHxF1ojPOMH/0V/ucf2wBQO5px+SqC3D3Hx
LR2lKioFYXXwqzFpjw3BR8RQgF3p3xXn4Ny3FXieQh3b6Yb0oD0fmjAWEa/sQqCx
RKFnyNthaqJipqdNszRhaasBz3umzodaF2Nd9EgE+eVKHx5smBWAAixmE8cU2NKl
eDmvI/88KX3v3sJpqMd/13urfe032zAXtWx9Gnus+mgziW/TK+IZd8EUWhS/Zzim
IK/O/vetGfb8d3US0iA+QRj+gc015XKEDoEEfRyF/hW6jXilIpNKsk3QStFH7DTA
cJRblcsrY3mure83q1oz+dG/XwhUDiUuJ3Fnxpirxdc1CC2rprEFCHPDOK3O3uM=
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Thank you for verifying, should be an interesting auction....

Can you get me some better pictures of the face, please? If you are comfortable doing it maybe remove it from the flip. You can handle the edges with your bare hands (I do all of the time / just wash them first!).

Uh oh, the big guns are all coming out!

I don't see Otoh around so it is just us smaller pea shooters out and about  :P

25.01234567

i have never repented having my btc stuck else where.

Hope it goes high so i don't feel bad :D

good to see mike doing escrow

25.10  I'm in the States atm :)

Big guns have definitely come out now :)

Been a while since one of these was on auction, curious to see how far it goes.

25.5BTC

25.75BTC

btw, what's MNT? I see MT, MST & MDT, but not MNT, is it minus 7 hours from UTC, ie the same as PT 6.55 AM presently?

Sorry, we are currently MDT so GMT - 6

26BTC

It's so damn sexy! Thinking about bidding

26.25BTC

Thanks for the cut off time clarification.

26.5BTC

27BTC

Hopefully these pics turn out better. Hard to get the hologram in focus. Also I forgot to mention that this coin has the misprint "Casacius"

https://i.imgur.com/FGkyUrC.jpg http://imgur.com/zRtYWKh.jpg

That is a clean 25...nice!

Beautiful coin...

Looks like it's in very good condition, but I think I'm out on bidding, I'll just hodl my BTC in dusty old trezor  :)

that's really the cleanest 25 btc coin i have seen so far...

if i remember right, it's too big to be graded right?

No.  Grading is fine.
https://i.imgur.com/JPJkSCR.jpg

oh! i thought it was too big
MS 65 is good
maybe this one will get greater, as appears by pictures

Good luck to bidders, am expecting a bidding war in end :D

NOT saying those are mine.
Just pointing out a picture which shows two of them.  So, can be graded.

Major thing to keep in mind is that grading done years ago was WAY more stringent.  Meaning, coins rarely graded for 65/66 back then.  Everything now is graded higher.  So, the dates of grading on all Casascius coins should be considered when you purchase coins.

From the picture I see in this auction, I believe it will grade well.  Currently I am still a contender in a possible bid.  But, I only snipe at the end.  The current problem is that Otoh and LesbianCow know about this auction which means I have little chance of getting it, let alone a great deal.  :(

A graded 25 would be really nice to have, I always get paranoid about hologram tampering on high end Casascius

I agree on this ^^^  I expect a flurry of last second/millisecond bids ;)

Last time I dealt with this by stating that any bid automatically extends the auction to x minutes after the last bid

it looks like I'm able to edit my message in this thread as well.  an auction thread might not work right if editing is allowed (isn't there a subforum or an option to disable editing/deleting for auction threads? maybe a mod can set it on the thread? etc.)

Not this one.   Snipe on.

Yes. The auctions subforum (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=73.0) doesn't allow edits.

Unfortunately you can't see the wood for the trees there.  Too much noise from account and domain sales. Here allows a coin auction to be seen

Real answer is a collectibles auction subgroup

For now quoting any posts gives a chance to snapshot.  But even those could also be edited

I like the extension clause, if I do another one I will have to add that in.

bidding over myself in case I can't get to a computer during the auction end... 28.1BTC

It's unofficially the same as MT, MST, and MDT. Someone is trying to abbreviate "Mountain Time" in the US. Officially it's referred to as "MT=Mountain Tim", "MST=Mountain Standard Time", or "MDT=Mountain Daylight Time".

Standard time vs. Daylight time refers to the months when the clocks shift an hour in the US. In the Spring (Mar 12 this year) most of the US moves the time forward 1 hour. This time remains until Nov 5 (this year) when most of the people in the US move the clocks back an hour. It's an antiquated rule that was originally set to allow farmers more time to work in their fields near harvest time.

Today MDT is -7 hours from UTC. On Nov. 6th of this year MDT will be -6 from UTC.

Uhh, no.

DST = Daylight Savings Time.  It started on Mar 12th.  So, we are in xDT time zones.

PDT (Pacific) is currently -7
MDT (Mountain) is currently -6
CDT (Central) is currently -5
EDT (Eastern) is currently -4

On November 5th, we go to Standard Time zones  ( xST)

PST -8
MST -7
CST -6
EST -5

Current UTC time is (with Pacific and Mountain examples):
https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html?iso=20170507T170000&p1=1440&p2=234&p3=220 (https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html?iso=20170507T170000&p1=1440&p2=234&p3=220)

Theory and reasons for DST:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time)

And to clear up a confusion your computer might display.... When you go to the clock to enter your time zone, it will show you Standard Time (PST for example for Pacific), but will either have a checkbox for observing daylight savings or simply do it for you based on the calendar date but will tell you that it is currently observing this change.  Yes, Windows has a checkbox asking if you're in a DST zone.  There are very few places that have an exception to the DST rule (like Arizona).

Term:  Spring forward / Fall back
In November, it is fall.  So, the clocks will fall back (extra hour of sleep).  So, for MDT -6, it will change to MST -7
PDT -7 will go to PST -8

(edit:  confirmation.  Bitcointalk is on UTC.  Time of my post was 5:25PM UTC; however, I am in Seattle (PDT -7), so it is 10:25AM for me right now.)

This hurts my head

wouldn't it be better to just use Countdown Timer

:)


So, it ends tonight.  Midnight for his time zone  (MDT)

That is 6AM UTC  (Forum time)

Just watch the forum clock on the top right.  Less than 12.5 hours to go.

(Time zones makes this fun for sniping.)

28.2BTC

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28.5BTC

It is currently 9:pm my time. 3 hours until auction close.

Thank you all for the support.

As it may be of interest here's a 25 BTC Series-1 that I won a couple of months ago, got it for 26.5 BTC @ approx $1,200/BTC = $31,800 or when we actually exchanged, on the 21st April, it was approx $1,246/BTC = $33,000 including delivery in person to London from Estonia.

Coin is real nice, firstbit's addie has a small smudge on it from when originally produced.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1811869.msg18074052#msg18074052

Looks  like Throwawaydev400 is the auction winner. Please PM contact information to Casascius and myself. As soon as possible I will deliver the coin to Casascius.

Thank you all, I look forward to more auctions in the future.

28.6

though it looks like all this crazy time zone stuff means i messed up

That is 0600 UTC

That was 0657 UTC

Guess the OP could extend a leaf.

Otoh... I'd be happy to get you one at that price.  :)

If anyone has a 25btc for sale in the US, I might be interested, definitely give preference for graded coins.

Ah, shit I got the hours from UTC confused between MDT and MST. Sorry for that all! Thanks for the correction. I'll double check my comments next time - i think this one was late at night.

Nice premium building on this auction...I suppose I'll have to cut out of work to watch this auction finish!

Better hurry, cause it ended last night.  :)

Offer for a Series 2 graded MS-67?

Congrats to the winner, and the seller.  :)