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Hello folks, so I decided to put one of my most prized Casascius coins up for sale...

It's the 1BTC Casascius Silver Round /w Gold B - HEART ERROR COIN - with a little heart gold electro plated to the top-left of the B. It's the only one of its kind with this kind of error making it extremely rare.

It's in absolute mint condition. It was never removed from it's air-tight capsule since I received it 3 years ago. I did send it in to have it graded to have it preserved in a very durable plastic shell. I consider the grade irrelevant as it's in mint state as received from Mike and from what I've discovered is that ANACS doesn't take the grading process for these seriously.

Shipping is free via USPS priority mail (registered) to CONUS buyers. International shipping is $50.

Escrow is handled by Blazed.

My asking price is 4.5 BTC

Below are a couple pictures, but what I really recommend you see is my 4K recording of the 3 coins I am selling, including this beauty. You'll get a better view of the details and their cool hologram.

See it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itpg4kkvcdk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itpg4kkvcdk)

The other 2 coins in the view are (click on the link to view their listing):

• 10BTC Casascius Silver Round /w Gold B - MINT - MOST DESIRED COIN! (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1635465.0)
• 1BTC Casascius Solid-Silver Round - MINT GRADE! (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1635466.0)

Finally, here are the photos for this coin:

http://bitmarket.io/1hfront2.jpg

http://bitmarket.io/1hfront.jpg

http://bitmarket.io/1hback.jpg

Oh wow didn't even know there was one of a kind with a gold heart. This is pretty unique.
Curious to see how quickly this sells.  :)

This coin was posted quite some time ago and did not sell due to the premium requested.   ;)
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=680240.0
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=703713.0

The heart wasn't meant to happen from what I know, and looks like a plating error.

Thanks for the links. They do have more info on this coin if anyone is interested in it.

I have never seen one of these before, thanks for posting the pics.
I had to look twice to actually see that there was a gold heart on the coin and it didn't just get that name from something else.

Good luck with your sale.

1.3 btc I can offer

lol

Again, care to counter?

I can up the offer to 2.5 BTC

Thanks for the offer but it's too low. Already received offers higher than that.

Ok so what's your highest offer and I'll see if I can counter it

Couldn't someone just take a Casascius and send it to a gold plating company and have it gold plated the same shape or symbol for a decent fee?

Yes. Or to quote casascius (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=680240.msg7729254#msg7729254) on that matter:
"Someone could have done it themselves. I didn't do this deliberately if it came from me"

Not worth the time and money. It would be very funny for these 'error' coins to suddenly start popping up. With questionable quality. So while yes someone could do it, it's unlikely. If there was one out there with an error like this or more it would of made its way to the public eye by now.

Not to say that yours was done this way, but thats not really true. I hadn't thought about it before, but I could electroplate any shapes someone wanted on a coin for less than $20. You just need a couple of acids, a bit of gold, a battery, and plastic wrap with whatever shape you want to be plated cut into it.

That said, that comparison is like saying collectors coins with flaws are worthless because someone could get an unflawed coin and replicate the flaw themselves. Things that are messed up straight from the mint tend to have a higher value with collectors.

It doesn't cost much. Perhaps you should look into the cost of doing such a task prior to saying it's "not worth the time and money" to do so given the premium you are asking is more than $20-$50 above what a casascius 1 BTC silver coin costs at market price. You are asking at least $1000 higher than a normal 1 btc casascius silver with gold BTC sells for.

People will do with their money what they want, not stopping them of course. Just stating the obvious about cost vs price.


Good luck with your sale.

I was not aware Mike said this, so then how would one know for sure that the "heart" was indeed legitimately from a batch of coins that Mike sold and had gone through him with that gold heart "error"?

I remember there being some discussion directly with Mike about this. I can't remember what the conversation ended with regarding the gold heart.

As I've said someone could easily pay a small fee and have the same mark on their casascius coin or another error mark of their choosing and call it an error.

I'm no expert on the history of this specific coin, but one should question the legitimacy of such a coin and what that cost should be to determine a fair market price for it.

A perfect example is the XMR coins I got minted that were reversed in the original design. The mint gladly wrote a letter, signed it by all parties to indicate it was indeed a minting error. All of the proper documentation is there to prove the errors in the coins.

Agreed, minting errors tend to carry much more weight. Gold plating could be faked (not saying this one is or isn't).

Maybe any "error" coins that hit the market for the first time should be sold with these papers, to be able to match the coin serial number/bitcoin address with the papers would solve any discrepancies like this down the track.

I thought i remember reading about fake Casascius error holograms once but i could be mistaken.

1.5

Lol. Good luck picking up a "regular" Casascius 1 BTC Silver Gilt for 1.5, let alone a graded coin or one with this controversial error.

After seeing your bids and comments on bitmarkets coins recently, I'm starting to get the feeling that you're purposely trolling.. ::) Either that, or you just don't follow the market. Yes, the prices of coins are down lately - but I'm still waiting to see a Casascius 1 BTC Silver Gilt go for less than 2 BTC on the forum.

I love how you take the time to read my posts to come to the conclusion that im trolling. What's even funnier is how I am the only one really bidding on any of his coins. So how about you put your money where your mouth is and make a bid.

1.5 is a joke which is why I am ignoring your 'bid'. I already received 3 PMs with offers. Top one was for 4BTC but couldn't reach agreement. I think 4.5BTC is a very fair price. Without the error 2-2.5 is fair, I feel the unique error adds a solid 2. Anyway, I'm in no rush to sell.

Oh and there is nothing uncooler than making an offer only to retract it later with an even lower and insulting offer.

I am not going to derail bitmarkets thread further, so this will be my last comment to you. Have a good look at my trading history, along with my payment address which has remained static for the last 2 months, and you will find that I have done trades that total way over 100 BTC in just a couple months. I have no interest in these coins at these prices, which is why I won't bother giving bitmarket an offer which would come across as lowballing. That said, I am prepared to offer 15 BTC for the Casascius 10 BTC coin, which is more than you did - and this is an offer I would honor. I am also prepared to offer 2.8 BTC for this specific coin. So, if you are going to try and be a smart ass, do a little research next time.

@bitmarket.io - apologies for derailing your thread. I will leave now ;)

Zepher I see your 2.8. I will go 2.9

Im sorry you feel insulted about my offers. Im insulted that your titles read "Very Rare" and "highly desired" yet your items have been for sale for years without any action.

So clearly highly desired and very rare are insulting terms to me because you are trying to take advantage of those who know no better.

We're dealing with lots of money here. These coins are held by early investors or bought up by wealthy investors. And there aren't many of those. If you can't fork out the asking price then it obviously isn't for you.

Well then it seems like its only for you because for years you have had them for sale and no one has bought them. Not one of the Early investors, not one whale not anyone. So either this forum is full of broke people, which I doubt or your asking price is not even close to reality.

Humm... I wonder which of the two scenarios happen to be the case.

???

If you're not interested then why are you here? You're not just irritating me and polluting my listing but other members as well.

Negative feedback for trolling.

If anything you should be happy for the free bumps and if I was just trolling would I be making $1000+ offers. I think not. If you think im trolling accept my offer for either coin and set up the escrow. Then we'll see what's what.

LOL, what a little punk you are. You gave me bad feedback for bidding on your coins. I'll repay the favor and I'll continue to stop by to remind people how you have been trying to sell your coins for years and that they should only be paying a small amount above face value because..... Supply and demand.

You have no demand for your coins therefore they are way over priced.

You need help. Start here: https://www.mentalhealth.gov/get-help/immediate-help/

:) Ok im the mental one!! I got cha. Im not the one who keeps bumping his thread hoping to catch a fish when the market has been telling him for years that there is no fish to be caught. I think repeating the same action and expecting a different result is a mental disorder. So who's the one who really needs mental help here?

Why dont you use that site you linked to look it up.

I think its called insanity.

I'll go to 2.95 :P

Bitmarket is starting to get tempted  ;D

Soooo close! :P

At this point a reverse auction starting at 4.5 and dropping by .05 per day might not be a bad idea :P

Okay, how about 2.999BTC? :P

Had a couple pms for 3 but ignored them. 3 <= is too low :/

Emailed you to discuss further. p*****.d**@gmail.com

Still interested in the coin we just haven't spoken yet!

1.5 final offer. Take it or leave it.

I bet he's out partying for the new year haha I will be soon too :P

1.6

I'll trade you an ungraded gilt 1.0 without a hideous splotch for your "heart error" straight up :P

no can do :/

I remember when he got that coin a few years back and will say that splotch is legit. I have no proof that it shipped that way, but he messaged me on IRC asking if I had ever seen such a thing. I get why people are skeptical, but I believe him about the "heart"

Still trying to contact you my man! You must be a busy dude! Haha.

1.65 btc.

Your an idiot

Still no takers on the VERY RARE coin. Something must be wrong here. Maybe its your asking price jackass.

You must have not been around long enough to know that bitmarket will sit on his prices and coins for years at a time, I think his last 10BTC coin took like a year to sell, but it did sell.

That's cool with me. The longer he waits the lower the premium will get btc wise because if we know anything its that btc will continue to go up.
Why do you think he's been sitting on this coin for 2 years trying to sell and with no one buying it? His asking price is not even close to being reasonable.

Why are you so interested about my life?

He's not, he just wants to get his signature into as many places as possible so he can keep getting paid.

Yeah I need the 0.005 that bad even though im making 10+ btc offers on this guys coins. OKkkkkk.

None of your offers are accepted. I will NEVER sell you a coin.

Dont be so nieve. If I wanted to pay more I could just make a new account and buy from there but id never do that because I have balls and stand on my own two feet.

 :D as the bitcoin turns

Bitmarket.io, a few questions for you on this beautiful coin:

• Are you the original owner? If not, who had the coin before you?
• Is this coin featured in Elias' Encyclopedia of Physical Bitcoins?

Thanks!!

It's quite easy to offer a lot of money knowing it'll never be accepted, Just because I go to someone selling a house for $250k and offer them $100k cash right now doesn't mean I won't be working at Mc Donalds because I'm actually broke. Nevertheless if you aren't in any need of a paid signature, why bother having one? It's still got quotas to make and thus here you are posting to meet them.

My offer was not a joke. If Bitmarket.io agrees to my offer I'll sign a message containing the btc right away and get the escrow involved. As for the sig, I actually support FJ because I like their site and customer service. If you check you'll see im not even on any list to get paid for wearing it. I just do it to support a service I like and use regularly. 

Your offers are rejected Sourgummies. Even if you exceed my asking price. I will NEVER as long I'm alive sell anything to a troll like you. N_E_V_E_R. You filth.

Why are you so angry? I can almost see the vein popping in your forehead when you were typing out this message. All I have done is make fair offers for dusty old coins that you've not been able to sell in over 2 years. And you get all up and angry vein poppin and shit. :)

I like the look of those, the ironic side effect of asking for bitcoin payment is you want someone bearish on BTC but who is bullish on the gold or silver content of the coin.  Because they are losing more of the bitcoin in order to buy the physical attributes of the metal and this particular coin, so thats probably what makes it a difficult sale.
Ive never been sure about the whole case for gold cross over investors to bitcoin because they are different asset classes, I hold gold in a blockchain type account but I accept its not really crypto related and is centrally reliant on the custodian.  Its bling for sure, you want someone rich or with much larger holdings they dont hold personally to pick this up as a kind of folly for their desk I think really

this isn't in the book - I believe cassascius denied all knowledge of the error..

OP - do you have the PGP chain for this ?

For what ever it is worth, I remember that Charlie contacted Mike about the gilt spill, here is the thread:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=680240.msg7729254#msg7729254

So mike denied knowledge of the error - but said it was a possibility.

For what it is worth... I remember when he first got the coin (2013/2014) and he hit me up on IRC. He was asking me if that would be an error of sorts and I said probably so. Obviously this does not prove it is real, but personally I believe him about it. Who would fake an error a year or 2 before trying to sell it?

so last offer was 1.65 BTC

Ok..

I'll bid 1.75BTC + shipping and insurance.

Frank Lefty Rosenthal Signing Out.

I'll bid

1.85BTC

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bitmarket signing out.

#NoInterest!

I'd pay BTC4.5 to get a clinic on how to produce forum post art as fine and abstract and inspirational as this gem. I like your work!


Heretofore, this offer in no way represents an actual offer of bitcoin for services rendered or goods provided. This was merely a statement made in jest with the intent of easing the tension that has persisted in this thread. We all know Bitmarket.io will get his price for this beautiful coin. It's just a matter of time and market winds. When they decide to blow in favor Bitmarket.io will be waiting, with a prominent escrow, a shit eating grin, and some brilliantly crafted forum post art giving the rest of us the bird. Ibid. And until this day comes, may all of us travel henceforth with godspeed.

Called google :)

1.89BTC sir.

Final offer and I should have my head examined for making it but I'll offer 2 Bitcoin, I'll pay the shipping too.

Do we have a deal?

Frank Lefty Rosenthal Signing Out.

Head examined indeed...how have offers for these coins fallen so low? Bitmarket.io needs to refuse this offer on principle and out of respect for the rest of us that own. A simple 2013 brass Casascius coin in "just off the roll" condition commands at least 2BTC (not much more but not a satoshi less for sure).

Why are people wasting time with these comical offers? All sales history goes against this talk!

Dont get mad. Cassicius himself never admitted to knowing about this coin and its highly likely that the op put the heart on himself.
And BTC value is rising so the btc preimum will start dropping.

Keeping this in mind I will still offer 2BTC for the coin.

Frank Lefty Rosenthal Signing Out.

1.5 final offer. Take it or leave it.

I regret to inform you your offer is going to be left.

Man oh man... all these kids making joke offers... bitmarket.io, my friend, I am going to get down to brass tacks here. Serious shit. Real offers. No jokes. Grab on to those trousers and hike them up high.

1.1BTC. In real cash bits. Or bit cashes. That is a solid 10% over face value. WELL OVER market value. Best offer you will EVER receive. You know it. I know it. All those short-bus, special-needs youths making offers before me know it.

I only ask a couple terms which I am sure you will agree to be completely reasonable. Just that you pay escrow, shipping, authentication fees, insurance, one weekend stay in Vegas, two hookers (I'm not greedy), an eightball, and provide at least one lunch. Italian submarine style sandwich and a diet coke would do just fine. Can't have too much sugar, I know you understand.

I'll let you think it over. Take your time and consider how this offer can completely change your life. Revolutionary even. WHOA SHIT, I THINK I JUST BLEW MY OWN MIND!  :o

Im still offering 2 BTC

Its way over market value and the best offer he will get.

Frank Lefty Rosenthal Signing Out.

Mr Rosenthal, why are you always signing out? is this public radio? are you a ham operator? is that a final farewell until the inveritable next post? is it simply a tacky cliche? does it have any meaning? any reference to pop culture? anything?

i cannot help but feel it is little more than a repetitive pseudo-signature spam line with zero value beyond blatant intentional irritation intended.

my offer of 1.1 still stands with all provisions implied. trust my trust rating. it is green unlike some other (lesser) folks here. i will be so bold as to add one turkey sandwich to the pot. fresh carved, not deli mystery meat and with a choice of toppings

One word. Branding.

Frank Lefty Rosenthal Signing Out.

Bold. I need a brand of sandwiches.

dazedfool italian-style submarine sandwiches signing out

Now you're thinking.

I'll take two but hold the lettuce.

Frank Lefty Rosenthal Signing Out.

Sold! No lettuce and double tomato. Please send 2BTC to 12J4cZNu22gBJ7qCYvUsRdtgn8sJBuKEhj

I'll post your sandwiches via mediamail, eta 5-21 days.

dazedfool italian-style submarine sandwiches signing out

BTC on the way, keep checking for them.

Frank Lefty Rosenthal Signing Out.

What about cheese?

bump

bitmarket is the Nate Diaz of bitcointalk  ;D

Bump on this coin - Man can ask what the fuck he likes for it - thats how pricing works. Market value is another thing.

bump

bump

bump

Ok Bitmarket.io.
I want both the 10btc Gilt and this 1 Btc silver round.
I am willing to pay 18.5 bitcoins for the two.
We use SebastianJu or another escrow who is reliable.

Only catch is that you must accept payment in STRATIS.
No compromising on that bit.
Let me know

Sounds like a fair offer but why must payment be in STRATIS?
Can't you just swap it to btc with ShapeShift.io or is thay beyond their limits?

Too sketchy. Solid bitcoins or cash only through a solid escrow.

Sure

it could be  ;)

I don't get why this thread was necrobumped, but bitmarket.io account is likely compromised, and has been for years...