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Some backstory:
About 14 months ago, some acquaintances and I decided to make some pure gold physical XMR coins. I led the effort, and 9 others agreed to "pre-order" 1 each (10 total), which would cover most of the upfront costs. Depending on how things went, the plan was to offer an additional 5-10 (max 20 total) for public sales. Long story short, after many hardships and delays, all coins are in their owners hands and fully funded with 1,000 XMR, save one: a few months ago one of the guys backed out. Due to a variety of factors, I've decided not to make any more of this 2015 series (there may be something new for 2016/2017 in gold and/or platinum though!). This coin (#10) is all there will be for public sales of this series. All coins are vanity-generated to start with "4Au1", "4Au2", etc.

The buyers of coins 1-9 are:

1. luigi1111
2. fluffypony
3. dnaleor
4. binaryFate
5. Lloydimiller4
6. djjacket
7. wpalczynski
8. othe
9. saddambitcoin


This is a "buyer funded" coin, but the funding transaction must be created to my technical specifications. By doing this I can ship the coin unfunded to its final destination and store no private keys, yet still have its funding/spent status provable to a 3rd party. A certificate with all the details necessary to prove funding status is included.

This coin's address is (0/zero doesn't exist in base58):

Some pictures:
https://i.imgur.com/hnliQ4W.jpghttps://i.imgur.com/RNoXfzf.jpghttps://i.imgur.com/Zoh4T7O.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/n5vnA83.jpghttps://i.imgur.com/4I3S7Jq.jpghttps://i.imgur.com/WjQKUEU.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/72hc31j.jpghttps://i.imgur.com/Yxnq3lp.jpg

The coin is quite small, and the text, especially on the obverse didn't turn out as sharp as I wanted, both in pictures and on the coin itself. The date also has an error; it's slightly off its intended location (all 10 coins are like this).


Q&A

Who are you? Why should I trust you?
You shouldn't. The other buyers will vouch for me, however, you should still DYOR.

Do you accept escrow?
Sure, though it's safer to stay away altogether as only roughly 60-70% of the final value can be ensured by escrow.

What is the gold content?
1oz 0.9999 purity

What does it say? I can't read the text.
The obverse says "nenia libereco sen privateco", which is Esperanto for "no freedom without privacy". The reverse says "forto en nombroj", "strength in numbers", and "unu unco .9999 oro", "one ounce .9999 gold".

How does funding work?
The exact final details will be worked out with the buyer. The funding transaction must be constructed in a particular way to match the details at http://au10.llcoins.net/. 1,000 XMR for funding must be in escrow before the coin ships.

How does the coin store Monero?
There is a hexadecimal seed on a piece of paper under the hologram. The digital form was never saved to any disk; the only other paper copy was destroyed after the coins were assembled. To redeem, peel the hologram and enter the seed into the provided conversion utility on the coin's page: http://au10.llcoins.net/. The format of the seed is standard for Monero private keys, not proprietary, so any number of tools could offer conversion if the site were to go offline.

How is this being sold?
By auction, starting now and ending next Friday the 17th at 20:00 UTC (4PM EDT). Bids should be in XMR in minimum increments of 25 (1,000 funding amount not included). A 15-minute grace period applies at the end. I reserve the right to refuse your bid, cancel/move/extend/change the auction, etc.

What about shipping?
Shipping will be flat-rate: $25 in USA, $50 outside, payable in BTC or XMR.

Update: auction over. Lloydimiller4 has won for at 1,800 XMR bid.

just want to vouch for luigi here :)

Received my coin in excellent condition. Here are some pics (click to enlarge):

https://i.imgur.com/A90u6Y5.jpg (https://i.imgur.com/A90u6Y5.jpg)
Monero, the gold to Bitcoins silver ;)

https://i.imgur.com/9eX3zGn.jpg (https://i.imgur.com/9eX3zGn.jpg)https://i.imgur.com/qR5CBBA.jpg (https://i.imgur.com/qR5CBBA.jpg)

Congrats, that's a really fine looking and well designed coin there! :)

500 XMR

Already got one, but this is below gold cost :p

I bid 525 XMR  ;D

550 XMR :D

800 XMR

900 XMR

Very interesting coin.  I must say I was never aware of this, and it didn't make it in the Encyclopedia. 

1000 XMR

I also vouch for luigi...damn good coin!

edit: behold the Monero trifecta.

https://i.imgur.com/ze4u0BM.jpg

1100 XMR

Need Lealana for trifecta!   8)

People could also go for this coin AND Lealana set #10
Then they have a 4 coin set with the same numbers ;)

1200 XMR

1250 XMR

Damn. That looks amazing.

Do I understand correctly that the current bid is 1000 + 1250 = 2250 xmr?
 

Correct.

The gold value is approximately $1,265 (current spot), so we are almost at par value.  :D

1500 xmr

I confirm I have coin #4 and I can happily vouch for the seller :)

One week left. :)

1650 XMR is my bid for the coin.

1700 xmr.

binaryFate needs 2 coins   ;D

Less than two days left!

1800 XMR

30 minutes! ;)

Edit: Auction over. Congrats to Lloydimiller4 on his second coin!

ok, so...

This coin is now worth > 5000 USD


 :o :o :o

craziness... :o

It's so 3 weeks ago...
Now hovering around 15k USD  :P

Thanks for rubbing it in! :D

Geez.

Last coin is finally in the owners hands and funded! http://au10.llcoins.net/

Thanks for all who participated. A platinum coin sounds expensive now...

Platinum coin?

Insane coin! I'd give a 10 BTC Casascius for it..  :o

For the crypto value, 10 BTC would cover only about 650XMR currently.
For the premium collector value, there are only 10 such gold coins in the world. I don't know how many Casascius 10BTC are circulating, but probably way more?

So I don't think anyone would take your offer  :P

These are sweet xmr coins definately.  For reference i think the last public sale of the casascius 10 went for 16.5btc which probably wouldnt get you one of these gold coins i agree

The circulation of 10 BTC Casascius coins is definitely much higher but so are the number of collectors in the Casascius arena. 

https://casascius.uberbills.com/

This issue matches better with the 1000 BTC funded Gold Casascius coins which is what inspired this coin. :)


 

A little more than a year later and its 180k USD  :o