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Presenting the 2014 Casascius St. Petersburg Bitcoin Bowl coin, to be used for the coin toss at kickoff!

This 1-ounce limited-edition fine silver medallion commemorates the first professional sporting event to take place under the banner of Bitcoin. It combines the face of the classic Casascius® physical bitcoin with the St. Petersburg Bitcoin Bowl logo on the reverse. Adorned with gold plating on the polished rim, the Bitcoin B, and the bowl logo, this is the only coin to be released by Casascius in the 2014 calendar year. This collectible coin does not contain any private key or digital Bitcoin value.

It comes shipped in a standard openable slab.

https://www.strydeathletic.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/bitcoin-coin-500x500.jpg



Buy now!  As advertised in Bowl Merchandise section on StPetersburgBowl.com.  Direct link to coin: https://www.strydeathletic.com/shop/bitcoin-bowl/bitcoin-coin/

YES!

Order placed.   ;D

Is this a limited run? If so how many are being minted?

Very nice initiative and the coins looks absolutely great.

The site says there are 10 in stock, does that mean only 10 have ever been made?

I made 2000.  Many of them won't be available on the market, Santa Claus got first dibs. ;)

Still fairly limited run :)

Just ordered mine, used a coupon code for 10% off, so US$90 for that amazing coin is a good deal ;)


EDIT : coupon code bitcoincongrats :)

I'm working with them on the quantity to remedy the "out of stock" condition.

They probably didn't anticipate selling out that fast.  Most football toss coins aren't bitcoins and don't sell that fast :)

Damn that was quick! Hope they get the issue resolved soon, don't want to miss out on this piece of Bitcoin history!

Most football toss coins are not made by Mike Caldwell!!

Very nice looking coin! Would go well with my Gold/Silver 1 BTC.

Is there any opportunity for international orders?

Does their site (assuming not out of stock) not permit them?  (I haven't gone thru the process)

Oops, my bad. Now the coins are in stock I have managed to purchase two with international shipping! :D

Thank you Casascius.

Got one!

That poor web site is crashing hard...lol

Got one! What an awesome Christmas present, Mike! Thanks!!

Very nice, can't see if they ship to the EU?

Sorry didn't read above!  :-[

Beautiful coin.

Order placed.

Ah, I've been waiting for this since I happened to stumble across your new blog post a month or so ago- it looks great though! Really cool that they let you design the coin toss coin- it's only fitting to have the original maker of physical Bitcoins make the coin for the first bowl game sponsored by Bitcoin (BitPay)!       (I also gotta give props to BitPay for letting them call it the "Bitcoin Bowl" instead of the BitPay Bowl. Getting the word out about Bitcoin benefits BitPay just as much if not more in the long run!)
 
Unfortunately the Christmas season has me maxed out on funds- hopefully there will be one or 2 left in another week or so! Will check back ASAP!

These are awesome. Tried buying with bitcoin and bitpay but kept getting an error. Had to use card instead. Just me? Would like to buy a few more paying with BTC.

"Error creating BitPay invoice. Please try again or try another payment method."

Worked 1/2 hour ago.

Great coin had to buy one! :)

Also ordered one! Nice coin!

I had no problems. Order went from hold to processing after payment with btc.

Even if it's not actually a coin I just bought one of this.  8)

It's value comes from rarity, not from the cost of materials. Just like Bitcoin :)

Well the Bitpay portion is broken   >:(

Error creating BitPay invoice. Please try again or try another payment method.

Not using dirty fiat for a Casascius coin..who wants to buy me one with fiat for my Bitcoins?

Great looking coin.. I have been a fan of your work for a while now and have amassed quite a collection.
Was wondering if the coin being used for the coin toss would be available for sale??

Bah, too late for the coupon. 107 left...

Just managed to catch this thread and place an order in the nick of time.  Stock went from 34 to zero in about 10 minutes.  Coupon code worked, but Bitpay invoicing did not, requiring a rebuild of my order.  Second time around, the coupon code no longer worked, but it did confirm that the order was placed before stock ran out. 

Great piece Mike--your much anticipated next release certainly doesn't disappoint.

what is the coupon code

bitcoincongrats

didnt work when i tried

nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo, so wanted some of these coins for 90

Their website is messed up!  Will not accept bitpay as others have mentioned.  "Error creating BitPay invoice. Please try again or try another payment method."  If you retry, it creates a new order number with the same error.  I have multiple orders now but no bitpay invoice.  Very poor buggy implementation of bitpay.  I will not buy unless buying with bitcoin.  They need to fix their website.  

Yeah not too impressed with this so far. I would buy a coin or 2, but only with Bitcoins..

How many coins are you trying to buy? I will buy them for you via fiat, for BTC.

Thanks for the offer, but I will pass.

You wanted to buy right here via fiat but whatever.

Sick and tired of people refusing to trade when I have never once chargedback a payment or done anything wrong. If I ever fucked someone over then have them sue me, everyone knows who I am, where I live and all. Fuck this, abandoning this shit account and starting fresh. If I was a scammer I would have abandoned it a long time ago. I've tried but nothing works. I offer escrow or send first everytime (which I would have done here) and still no one trades. Just sick of it. I'll create a newbie account and in two months be back to trading like always and thats what is fucked up with this trust system.

I would like to buy 5.  Is there a qty discount and/or can the discount coupon be reactivated?  (Maybe via PM?  hint) -- to be paid with bitcoin.

Ordered

Very Noice.

Uh oh, commemorative Bowl game coins?

It might be time to sell the Casascius coins...Mike, I think you've jumped the shark with this one.

Love your previous work, Mike.

I just think creating marketing tokens will dilute the value and the integrity of the existing original coins. Good luck to you. And if someone has to make a marketing token for the game it might as well be the original (and in my opinion only) Bitcoin coin creator. I hope the bowl game brings a lot of due interest to Bitcoin.

First of all, I am a big fan of Mike's work, and this piece is no exclusion, it is beautiful :)

But the webpage from Strydeathleticis bad, really bad. Was among the first 50 to order with the coupon yesterday, but bitpay failed and my order was eventually canceled, been in contact with support, they have so far not been able to help (proberly because of Christmas).

Now is the bitpay option removed from the page  ???

Tried with 3 different credit card - I gets an error each time.

Frustrating :(

Same with me, it seems I won't be able to take profit from the coupon...

Yeah, the coupon is long gone.
Now, I consider it lucky if you are just able to buy one (somehow) at full price.

As you said Bitpay was and is not working. I only wanted to buy with Bitcoin, not with my f*** credit card.
Come on a Bitcoin coin that can't be bought with bitcoins...

CC doesn't work for me either.

Hilarious, people willing to buy your product but the payments gateways are not working. Master in business management...

I used credit card.
An error overlaid the processing screen with some XML output, but the screen beneath showed successful processing, with a confirmation message sent to my email address.
28 are left. Might be worth taking another try at it, if you had errors before.

I just gave up all together on this..pretty sad sales setup. The whole not being able to buy a Bitcoin piece with Bitcoin is lame..

I also gave up, tried everything: bitpay (now is the option removed), 3 different CC, 1 debit card, also tried to have a family member to purchase one for me with CC, all attempt failed. Support stopped replying.
How disappointing :(

Been looking forward for this coin ever since Mike announced it :(

One more sad smiley for the road:
 :(

If it helps, I used Chrome version 38.0.2125.101 m
When I ordered, it showed 28 left; it is now 17.

...the difficulty to order, to be honest, was part of what pushed me to pick up a few.
A barrier to entry into a market, while frustrating, will result in a lower number of people holding the coins. No different than an initial run of a Christmas present being undersupplied. The market was willing to show us that demand outpaced supply.

I liken this to the 0.1 BTC silver coins.  For almost their entire mintage, they had an overhead markup - maybe 0.35 BTC for a 0.1 BTC coin, if memory serves. Nobody ordered them for months. When Mike dropped the premium, the limited quantity got snapped up almost overnight.

In hindsight, the market will not care that it was an undesirable purchase for the first 99% of its offering time. It will care how many people have them for sale, relative to the number of people that want them. In both the silver coin case, and again here, the distribution was not to the masses, but to larger-scale purchasers buying with anticipation of favorable future market conditions.  Because of the web page ordering problems, aftermarket buyers will have a smaller set of buyers from whom to choose, which allows for but does not ensure rapidly appreciating prices.

Also - beautiful coin, looking forward to having it in my collection.

They accept Bitcoin again now.

Does it actually work?

Paid: 0.652444 BTC
This invoice has been paid.

Amazing! I ordered 2 of them and it looks like it works now.

Glad I picked a couple up yesterday, Cascasius 2014 coin!

I managed to order a coin yesterday using BTC, guess I got lucky and timed it right. Even managed to use the coupon! :D

I was half tempted to buy out the rest and offer them here, but he minted 2000 of them. I am sure they will keep adding stock to this.

Finally I got my order through.

The problem is obvious firefox, worked first time with Chrome.

Merry Christmas to everyone here, and congrats to everyone getting this wonderful coin :)

Glad orders are working again, friend of mine ordered his as well :)

Has anyone received an email stating that their order has been shipped?

Just ordered mine with my Debit card. To those of you who were having issue, I'd say try it again.

:D

Ships in 1-2 weeks as far as I know so it'll be after New Year's Eve :)

I got an email stating that an order I placed was shipped today, strange as this order got confirmed even though Bitpay was not working at that moment...

Wow, it actually works now!  Paid with bitcoin AND the coupon/free shipping worked too.  Yay!   8)

finally got to order one too with btc and coupon code worked and it made it way cheaper than original price with shipping.

Got my order in as well.  Yeah. - paid with bitcoin (of course).

Ordered today 4 hours ago, code did not work (but at least the payment processor worked).

(kinda suck that the code did not worked, there is a significant discount when using the code)

I'm curious why Mike isn't willing to post this coin for sale on his site for Bitcoin. That makes the most sense.

Wow that would be incredibly fast.... Did you get a tracking number?

Have to expect a glitch in the system.

Announce a coin and find out there is limits preset by bitpay was the cause.   It's been resolved, but for the delay, it would appear they reinstated the coupon briefly (which WAS only for the first 50 coins anyway).

No tracking but now I don't know if buy the coin or wait for it to arrive :P

Nice coin but why is there such a high markup?

How much is the international shipping (to Europe)?

$15

That's not bad. I might order 1 or 2. Casascius coins always live up to their name.

that was the shipping price for me to the US good thing the coupon worked though

2,000 coins vs 27,773 (http://casascius.uberbills.com)

Diluted?

i was gonna buy one but then changed by mind last second during checkout. come to think of it i don't give any shits for football. and wouldn't want to be stuck with dead weight. and that's that.

Then why waste your time even posting and forcing everyone else to read it?

Looks like this coin is gaining some media attention as well :

http://www.btcfeed.net/news/casascius-bitcoin-bowl-coin-commemorates-first-professional-bitcoin-sports-event/

Glad I found this post. Got a great looking coin to celebrate two favorite hobbies: bitcoin and football. Excellent work Mike.

Great looking coin, got my order in

Get real.

I'ts a fine coin. Just not for me. Just saying.

did someone mention a coupon for free shipping? I was willing to spend $100 on it but with shipping and tax its almost $120 now.

Coupon should be long gone, however there webpage seams glitchy, so might worth a try anyway (see quote below)

I had a receipt straight away after paying in BTC but havent had a shipping confirmation. Has anyone else had one outside the US?

EU shipping here. My order is still at "processing", I think it is normal. There is holiday right now.

Ye I know, just a few people mentioned items being dispatched and I got abit worried because of all the problems we've seen in this thread. Just looking for some reassurance thats all.

I have used other website with bitpay payment processors before. The order goes to "on hold" until bitpay have send a message to the webpage that it is bitcoins are confirmed, then is the status changed to "processing", meaning that the "parcel" is being processed, so nothing is really going to happen before somebody there does something about it (packing up and ship). I am 99% sure that company is legit, so not anything to worry about (imo).

Order #919 was placed on December 23, 2014 and is currently processing.

EU shipping as well :)

Then again, the site says 1-2 weeks until it ships so we'll see I guess :)

Way overpriced in my opinion, not even a do-it-yourself wallet "create and attach on coin" here...

Serp's gold plated coin for $10 is the way to go I think.  :P

Coupon code limit reached, bought three with shipping to EU for 1.000617 BTC, nice looking coins!

It says 91 left in stock, but that didn't update after I bought so it will be less than that I expect.

2014 12 30 Edit: 75 approx left atm.

It's quite possible I will release far fewer than 2000.  Only a few hundred have made it into the wild.

I had hoped to have these ready and on the market for the Christmas shopping season but didn't quite get them out in time.  Because of this, a few hundred sold.  I am sure I could promo the heck out of them if I felt like getting rid of them, but meanwhile, given that BitPay's got the St. Petersburg bowl for 3 years, the way I am producing them now, it's economically feasible for me to melt & remint what I don't sell, to become another coin such as the 2015 coin.  When they are no longer available on the Bitcoin Bowl website, that might well be the end of public availability for this 2014 coin.

Didn't know BitPay had a three-year deal...that's awesome news :)

The less coins produced, the more value for those of us who ordered one, so I wouldn't mind seeing far less minted :)

If the article comes from a Bitcoin dedicated publication it's not something that can be considered "media attention." Only if the news hits external media outlets or publications - any outlet that doesn't specialize in Bitcoin - is it real attention.

So how did the bowl game go? Did the announcers talk about Bitcoin at all? If so, what was said?

There ya go..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9jUY5cKfwk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmhX4YT7yng

Could not find the most important thing: the actual coin toss :(

 

LOL  ;D

Btw, lovely coin. Will try to grab one.

This sounds like a good idea, having the collection of all three coins  for each bowl would be nice too. Once the 2014 coin is officially off the market publicly, will you let us know how many were officially sold and released into the wild?

I still argue that without a way to load these coins, they aren't very great but hey a casascius coin is a casascius coin I guess.

This is why I didn't buy one.

Even being a loadable coin would work for me.

I guess personally I am not into commemorative coins.

Mike has done great work with this coin, it just isn't for me.

More token coins like this are going to cause a run on the original Casascius coins...you're going to see people selling their stash and the perceived numismatic value will fall.

Awesome looking coin; I would take one or two if the coin was loadable... :(  But still, beautiful coin ;D

Honestly the coin being load able makes no difference to me. I think it is nice either way since it represents a specific Bitcoin event. That being said I hope he does not start making tons of them for all sorts of things..

I also think this coin marks and important milestone in bitcoin history, both in terms of Mike's first commemorative casascious coin but also that is the toss coin for a football event.

When that is said, I hope Mike will follow smoothies steps and make buyer funded coins one day.
I like the idea about the buyer send the bitcoins to directly to the coins addy, the "manufacture" then verify that the coin is loaded before it ships out, in this way is the manufacture never in direct contact with the buyers funds, thus FINCEN has nothing to complain about - and we still have the "magic" of buying funded coins.

What is the size of this coin? Or more specifically, what case/box/holder/protector would I need to keep it safe on display?

I disagree and last I read so does Mike. No one should have the private keys except the person who owns it. Why add that layer of risk for no benefit?

Hope to see a shipment notification any day now....Any ETA on this? :)

I will guess that is have the almost the same dimensions as the Casascius 1 BTC 1 Oz .999 Ag coin.

Elias Casascius Guide say that the dimensions for the 1 BTC silver are:
Diameter: 39mm
Thickness: 3mm
Weight: 1ozt

But you need ask Mike to get the exact measurements or wait until someone have the coin in hand.

Dammit, the coupon isn't valid anymore, but this coin is so beautiful. Is there any other coupon available or am I out of luck.

EDIT: I bought one and I can't wait to receive it. It looks so amazing!

I ordered on 12/23 and got a notice on 1/2 that it shipped.  No tracking info but I am guessing I will see it sometime this week.

Will post pics when it arrives.

ig

I paid Bitpay, but never got any type of email confirmation. Hope my order does not get lost in the mix.

Don't think any of the Bitpay orders had a confirmation. Some orders were marked as not shipped while notices had said that the item had been shipped.
Guess you'll find out soon :)

Just posting so I remember m, may order some when BTC stabilizes and I have enough to order one.

I paid through Bitpay and got an email confirmation that the order has been received and is being processed.

Waiting patiently aswell, hopefully any day now

I got mine in my email days ago. Check your spam.

This is coming to the EU, guessing your US based?

Order #919 was placed on December 23, 2014 and is currently processing.

(EU as well)

I guess these orders are being done in the order they were placed and paid in, so we'll get there soon enough I guess :)

I received a shipped email on jan 2. (US) It's UPS so may take a while..  

same here. i only believe in the coins prior to the shut down. i feel in the long term they will carry most value. the rest not so much. nor do i expect a strong demand.  i'm betting the most demand will be for the silver/gold 1btc and 10btc rounds. that's it. 25btc+ will be harder to move but those will be desired too, just by a narrow group.  that's what i think. we'll see. the bets have been placed. i'm not a collector, just a hustler. :)

Really cool coins, have always kicked myself for not buying original cascascius coins when they were originally released, will not miss my opportunity now.  Really cool to have the football element in there as well, as I love college football.

Just ordered 1, can't wait for shipping and to get it.  To bad I just spent a ton of money going to Hawaii for vacation and credit debt needs to be paid off before more frivolous purchases, otherwise I would buy more.

just got confirmation my coin has shipped! woo :)

Luckyyy! I'm still waiting and I really want this coin, haha.

Got this in the mail today.  I ordered maybe within an hour of them going live.  I live in the U.S. 

Actually I was in Tampa, just outside of St Petersburg, the day of the bowl game.  I didnt go to the game though.

Needless to say, my crappy phone pics dont do these coins justice.  Very shiny...fresh off the mint.  They came in these holders shown. 


https://i.imgur.com/tPF9iFZ.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/PGlGa93.jpg

Your Stryde order from December 24, 2014 has shipped.

Should be here sometime this week. Coin looks awesome.

Order #xxxx was placed on December 24, 2014 and is currently processing

I hope mine ships soon!

Received mine today as well....they look great.  I was going to post a pic but was beaten to the punch.

Mine ordered on the 23rd has been shipped today (UK)

Mine got also shipped today!  :)

mailbox all the empty
much cry
wow sad

Received mine today, located in Michigan. I think I ordered mine a day or two after it went live.

I also ordered mine on Dec 24th, and still says processing.

Fingers crossed for tomorrow :)

Processing changed to "shipped" :)
Let's see how much custom and tax I will have to pay when it hit the E.U. (berlin)Wall :/

Got mine.  Totally awesome!  Wish I had ordered two.

Thanks Mike!

ig

Got mine today, great coin :)

damn still didnt get mines

Mine is still not shipped  :-[

December 24, 2014 and is currently processing.

the coins look great in those photos. I have not received shipping confirmation yet, but looking forward to it.

I forgot to mention I received one out of 3 coins.

Received the one ordered on December 23, 2014. Ordered two more the next day (the 24th) and those are still listed as processing.

Thanks for posting pics Bithalo :)

Waiting for my coin to come in as well. Very cool commemorative for the collection.

Thanks Mr. Caldwell!

Mines still down as processing .... but then again I didnt order till xmas day

Then its gotto get to the UK

Whats gonna arrive first ? This years coin or next years bowl game ?  :D

You're welcome.

Super bowl 49 could happen before we in europe gets our coins cleared by custom, and the lazy post service bother to deliver.

Got mine today.   ;D

Dammit. I wish mine would finally ship, but I ordered on the 4th of January so that won't happen any time soon.

Did someone from EU already receive it?

I ordered on the 24th and just got the email today that they shipped. Probably a day or 2 before yours does.

I ordered my coin on January 4, 2015 and it's still processing, dangit.

i ordered mine same day as blazed and i still didnt get mine

Mine is not here yet either, but my status did change to "Shipped"

Mine arrived. I'm slightly disappointed with gold plating on the B. I'll try and get a good picture of it.

:(

Ordered on the 27th and received all of them today. Seems the bitcoin B is in a matte gold finish.

They look great to me and I'm happy to own a few.  :)

lol oops read it wrong. mines says completed now but i still didnt get it. what does yours say?

Ordered them on the 24th.

Got the email saying the order is complete / shipped on the 8th.

I will update when I get them.

At the rate bitcoin is dropping in value, the coins may soon be worth more in silver value than I paid in bitcoins.  :(

edit:  Received 1/15  2:30PST

ah ok same as me ordered same day and  says completed but didn't get it yet

Taking a couple with me tomorrow for an Altcoin meetup in Chicago which I plan to sell for BTC or USD
if anyone is interested. 

A quick read through this thread and it's like all the Bit-numismatists in one thread.  Didn't see Goat yet.

Goat hasn't been around since for ages as far as I know is. Haven't seen or talked with him in a while.

I'm have been waiting over a week since I ordered and I'm getting tired of it. I know it said one to two weeks, but how hard can it be to put a coin in a box, slap an address on it and ship it out. Shouldn't take as long as it does. I really hope it's worth waiting for.

I'm pretty excited that less than 2000 will be out in the wild...and from the sounds of it, less than 1000 even.

I've made a purchase, the charge is loaded on the card but on the web tells me to pay again, did any manager can help me?

I send you a PM, since I do not want to expose email addys here on the puplic forum.
Hope you will get your issue solved.

thanks

Just a quick message to say I received my coin today to the UK.

All good, looks great in its slab

Nice! When did you order?

Hey Icey,

Could you make and post some sweet ass pictures? ;D

I really need to invest In a good camera. Taking a photo on an iphone of these coins just doesn't do them justice. I'll see if I can borrow my brothers camera and take some close up shots :)

Bithalo already snapped a few photos.

Must have missed that. Man, they look amazing. Guess it's worth the wait than. ;D

If this is your first Casascius coin it is really cool when you first get it...it's one thing when it's on a screen, it brings it all into reality when you're holding it.

I think that's why he was so successful the feds stopped him from making glorified bus tokens with stickers on them, lol.

Just received my order less than 5 mins ago -- 1/15/15 (2:30PM PST). (ordered on 12/24)  -- It was shipped on 01/08/2015

Well, I have one Casascius coin but it's a 0.5BTC brass one (redeemed by the previous owner) so it's not the same. Can't wait to get this one, it looks soooo good.

You'll like these. I like the plastic display case it stay's in.. Of course you could break into it.

Does anyone know what the little earth symbol at the bottom left is?

http://uberbills.com/globe.jpg (http://uberbills.com/globe.jpg)

got mine today and not happy with it looks like someone dropped it and the rim got a dent and front scratched before putting it into the case.

We bought a few and I'm noticing the "dented" rim actually looks like it's from the striking...I could be wrong, but any defects from Mike himself should increase the value, that may even include any scratches or oddities.  I'm thinking of having all of them graded at ANACS, especially since he may be destroying the unsold coins to make next years'.

I also noticed all of the ones we purchased have some level of dent, one actually has gold plating spilling into it on the bottom that must have moved during the electroplating...which is awesome because people definitely like error coins.

lol dont think its an error my b is missing 2 chuncks of gold and right under it the silver is pretty scratched up.

Post a pic, message Casascius with a link back to the thread...I'm sure he could tell us, and if it's a quality control issue they might swap you out for another, otherwise it may be worth more because of it.

I can swap them for better ones for defects that are unique to individual coins. Sometimes the marks are in the die itself, and that just ends up on all the coins, but if gold is out of place, I can swap to improve that.

The one I have with the spilled gold seems like people would be more interested in it like this:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=703713.0

Aren't defects desirable to coin collectors?  I'll post a pic tomorrow when I have better light so you can let me know, I was thinking that would be the one I should keep.

Yes, if the defect is factory.

From what I read on the prior post, his coin appears the gold had been scratched (mishandled).

I purchased many of the coins, and I am happy with them overall.   That's not to say I wouldn't have chosen to swap out a couple had I been in a shop buying them, more specifically due to the premium paid on them.  I have more of an issue with the cases used.  I would highly suggest cleaning up the flashing before shipping them out.

Yes.  That is the manufacturer of the slabs themselves.
That is:  Coin World Premier

I'm quite new to coin collecting/selling...what is the flashing that should be cleaned, the whole case, or just the part that touches the coin?

https://i.imgur.com/ODNvdwv.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/YBC2zB8.jpg

This is the one with the gold on the bottom rim spilling into the coin, as well as a little spill over off the BTC.  On the back at the top it appears there is a burn mark, but doesn't look damaged from a drop or anything.

Ugh. That gold spillage ain't too pretty.

I kinda like it, like the bottom was "dipped" in gold.

Wow, the gold spill/misplacement is way off on your coin.  Not sure if it makes it more or less valuable.  I guess if more people want the in the future, it could fetch a price higher than they are now.  (Hope to have them more limited than the expected 2000)

The flashing I was talking about is the plastic on the case.   They Coin World made the plastic halves, they make (for example) 20 per press.  They are all connected to each other and then broken off a type of stem.  If you look at the coin, the flashing would be at the bottom of the case where the two halves connect.  On high quality cases or slabbing, they would debur this so it is clean or barely even visible.  I don't think this was the case on these units since all of my coins exhibit this flashing.

I ordered mine on January 8th and it's still showing as "processing."  Is this normal?  10 days to process seems kind of ridiculous.

I ordered mine on the 7th, so you can expect at least one more day...
I agree that if they have them on hand, they should be able to process a little faster than 2 whole business weeks.

I feel you guys. I ordered mine on the 4th of January and it's still not shipped. The two weeks have already passed and I think that this is ridiculous. Even Chinese ship stuff faster (within 10 business days and 70% of the time it's after 1 business day).

Perhaps Mike can check on this ^ with the seller?

I'm missing the appeal of this coin, how much publicity did Bitcoin get during the game?

4th Jan.. pffft
I ordered the 24th Dec 2014, no sign of the coins yet, the order is stated as complete, but no tracking has been provided, so I have no idea where my coins are.

This is badly organized by Stryde, that's for sure. I'm not blaming Casascius, though, he couldn't know that Stryde was so incompetent.

But the odd thing is there aint much competency needed to take coins put them in a box and ship them to person A, B, C...etc. Likely not Mike's fault from the looks of it.

I know and like I said, I'm not blaming Mike, I'm blaming Stryde for failing to put a coin in a box, slapping an address on it and sending it out.

if mine looked like that i wouldnt care but its pretty obv someone dropped mine before closing the case.

Agreed. I am not blaming Mike for anything, still a big fan.

I would just appeal that he would sell the coins from his own webpage or here on the forum next time he release a coin. I know this is s football coin, so it is properly part of the deal that stryde have the rights to sell the coin. Nevertheless I will hesitate by ordering from Stryde again, I had problem in pretty much every step of the process... I am expecting nothing less that my coins has actually been tossed around like football before it was placed in the slap and shipped to me.

Received my coin today, appears to be in perfect condition.


Had to pay 20 EURO in import taxes though, but that was to be expected I guess

Other than not getting the discount, I paid with BTC and they shipped pretty much as stated a week and a half later, but I see several have had issues since.  Guess I was lucky.

What I'm curious about, is if their remaining stock is all they have, or if it's going to be reloaded with more once the next 57 are sold.

Especially when they charged me $20 to ship two coins that probably cost about $4 to actually ship.   

Received mine on Friday. Very nice looking piece. Thank you Mike!

Ordered one, hopefully the delay isn't too long..

Does the gold plating on the BTC look like that or is it bad lighting?

From the diff pics posted, it would seem the gold looks like that.

I would believe that Mike would exchange it without a problem; however, you have to also consider that it might (possible) be worth more as an 'error' than anything else.

What is a shame is that the coins were not numbered.   Meh.

so you gonna answer my pms on how to swap my coin for another one?

Looking forward to hearing how many were officially released.

Got my shipping notification today.  Really excited to get one of these.

thanks for the reply

Finally got my coins!

Mine still haven't shipped and I'm getting pretty pissed about it.

It took a couple weeks for mine to ship. Not sure what makes this such a slow turnaround.

This is bitcoin.  There has to be Drama and anticipation.  It's what makes it work.  Kind of like waaaaiiiiting for confirmations.   :)

$119.88 For a coin delivered to NY is crazy. I really wish Mike would sell these on his own or from a vendor who could deliver the coin for $100. 20% markup with shipping and tax is brutal.

I agree.  The price is high and shipping is high.  Meh, you know that up front.
The only thing that bothers me is the number of people that complain about it afterwards.  You either want the coin or not.  Complaining about the price afterwards seems strange.

I would be MORE upset if they changed the price to $50 after so many purchased at $100.  That would be something to complain about.   :)

It has been 3 weeks now and it still shows as processing. Is there anything I can do, because this is getting ridiculous?`

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You could call them and email them.

Their info is on the site.

I send an email to them around 7th of Jan and politely asked if my coins where shipped yet (included ofc order number).
Just got an answer today (yah) - that they will get back to me as soon as possible and my email has been forwarded to someone who could answer my question.
So I answered politely that they could close my case since my coins arrived last week  :D

I sent them an e-mail today with the same question and it has been forwarded to someone else with the question how far the order is. We shall see how it goes.

For those of you who already have had their coins shipped, roughly how long did it take for them to arrive (U.S. btw).  I received an order shipped email on Jan 20th, and have not received anything 9 days later.  I am getting unhappy with stryde, especially considering the $15 I was forced to pay for shipping, this thing should have been here next day.  Also it says UPS was the shipping method, but I can't find a tracking number anywhere, either in the email or under my account on their website.  Why on earth would they not send a tracking number with an order that was over $100?

I have asked stryde for an update on my coin 5 days ago and I still haven't received anything (except an "we will look into it"-answer). I asked again two days ago, but still nothing. Getting suspicious and really annoyed right now.

Mine took 8 days, but they are on the East Coast while I am on the west Coast.
They shipped via UPS which is slower than USPS; however, it is WAY more secure and automatically insured.

You were not forced to pay $15 in shipping.  You didn't even have to order it.  Sorry, it just kills me that people know UP FRONT what the cost is and complains about it after the fact.  Just consider it a $115 coin with free shipping.

I do agree that they should have emailed a tracking number.  They do need to change.  I didn't find out my tracking until I signed for the package.  :)

If you want a coin fast, just PM me.  I will sell for $100 + $6 shipping (paid via Bitcoin of course) via USPS Priority Mail.  Fair?   :)

I ordered within a few days of this topic being created.  It took so long to get to me (I am domestic usa too), that when it came in I was totally surprised as I forgot I had even ordered it.

got my replacement coin today looks better thanks

And you ordered on the 4th? Something fishy going on there. Sorry to hear.

I received mine (purchased the 7th) about a week or so ago. It is pristine and has none of the gold bleed as the pic floating around this thread. Another satisfied Cas-tomer :P It's getting sent out to ANACS with my 2012's for grading.

Thanks, Mike!

Well, guess what, I have received an email saying that my coin has been send. It took them 26 days to send it out, now lets see how long shipping takes and how it looks. I hope I get a good looking one and not one of the gold bleed ones..

Finally recieved my delivery from Stryde today, in the UK, after ordering on xmas day

Looks to be a great finish

I wouldnt be surprised to see some very high grades come back for these coins

Great to hear! Yeah, it seams like people get their coins, just need to have a lot patience.
If you send some of them off to grading, then please send me a PM if I can piggy-bag 1 or 2 Casascius St. Petersburg coins.
Cheers!

fwiw guys I ordered some other items from stryde's web site and the shipping for that stuff isn't much better.

Well it has been 2 weeks since I got my shipping confirmation, sent them an email tonight asking where my coin is at.  Will keep everyone posted.

This one's mine. I'm pleased not to have gotten one with gold spillage. Mine arrived to the UK a couple of weeks ago. Sucks for those who've been waiting a long time.

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

https://i.imgur.com/Nefyg5P.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/04Oybtf.jpg

A very satisfying buy overall.

Sigh, apartment complex fail.  After talking with Stryde's help desk (which handled my issue quickly and efficiently), they informed me that my coin had been delivered and was at my apartment complex's office, and even though I have checked with them, twice over the last week, they indeed did have it and just failed to notify me.

Anyway, good job on stryde's part and beautiful coin.  I think I will definitely be getting this graded and put up for display.

EDIT:  I have never gotten a coin graded before, I think I want to use PCGS or NGC, can anyone provide advice on what they should be submitted under?

Not sure they will grade Casascius, or any crypto for that matter...if anyone has different information please do share.  Believe ANACS is our best option for now...

I agree.  ANACS has the most experience receiving them as well.

Has anyone sent their game coin in yet?  I am awaiting delivery of another coin and will be sending mine with it.

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Here is mine...I suck at pictures!!
http://i1244.photobucket.com/albums/gg580/bctiglasses/IMG_2762_zps0e7d93ea.jpg
http://i1244.photobucket.com/albums/gg580/bctiglasses/IMG_2761_zps76111956.jpg

I have seen his graded coins in the marketplace before. So somehow, somewhere someone is grading them.

debit,

ANACS grades casascius coins.  Lots of folks on here have used them for casascius as well as other coins.

Great!  Thanks for the information.

I am contacting them about getting these (and some of my other coins) graded.  If anyone would like to piggy back on that would be fine with me.  I will post back with further information once I receive it from them, including pricing and time lines.

Indeed--quite easy to get these coins graded with ANACS.  PCGS and NGC still don't accept crypto-related coins, although I'd wager that will change eventually.  Submittal details here:
http://www.anacs.com/contentPages/FAQSubmitting.aspx?AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1

I have noticed that this coin is now listed as "Out of Stock" on the Stryde website, after weeks of the quoted "In Stock:" numbers not really moving. I wonder if that means Casascius kept with his plan of melting down some of the remaining stock to be made into next year's coins?

Besides the splashed gold-plating, the coins I've seen so far look amazing and should get some pretty high grades I'd say.

Wow, yeah, stryde went from 50+ coins available to now 4.

Either someone bought them out or they are returning them to Casascius to be re-melted for next years' coins.

Received my coin today, it's in perfect condition ! together with a cool tshirt  ;D had to pay 35 euro ImportFees+TAX  :-\

http://s28.postimg.org/lacypz121/IMG_0713.jpg (http://postimg.org/image/lacypz121/) http://s28.postimg.org/j72jib195/IMG_0715.jpg (http://postimg.org/image/j72jib195/)

Received mine yesterday and it really looks messed up.  :-[ Did somebody get replacement yet? How is the procedure?

pm mike

I had the same thought...bought the shirt, patch & a football.  Have to figure out a cool way to display all of it.

just ordered one - Im a bit skeptical of the markup and large (2000) run quantity, but it looks fantastic. It wouldnt be the first 1oz silver coin ive spent >$100 on

wonder if we will see it fire-sale for $50 in a few more months though... IMO, the sooner mike melts down the remainder and keep ths total of these in circulation low, the better

 ;)

Ok, got my reply from ANACS, and they would be happy to grade these coins.  There is a 5 coin minimum and I have 3 coins I want graded....so here is my announcement to get your coins graded!

Join my ANACS coin grading run.  The costs are very simple and are broken out below... (U.S. Only)

Cost to ship to me -          Whatever it costs you
Cost to ship back to you                         -  $4
Cost to grade coin                                  -  $14 per coin
Cost to Ship to Grading Service               - $5 per coin
Cost to Ship from Grading Service to Me  - $5 per coin
My fee for time/plastic holder                  - $3 per coin

Total                                                      - $4 + $27 per coin

These seem to be the costs that it will take per coin to get graded, if you are interested please let me know and we can work on getting your coins to me so I can start the run.  Please let me know if there are any questions.

Thanks,

DebitMe

I was wondering...  how would you distinguish who owns each coin? If you collect a bunch of coins from different user, how would you distribute them fair, if they come back with different grades.
The coins itself do not have any serial number.  

The ANACS service asks you to put the coins into plastic cases and mark each one with a number that corresponds to the line on the request that you submit.  I assume they come back marked somehow, but I have no prior experience with this.  Can anyone lend an hand if they come back distinguished from each other?  If they do not, then this group grading will probably not happen, because I will have no way of knowing whose coin is whose.

I assume its nothing to worry about. If you mark the coin cases only an incompetent grader would not put the coins back in the exact same cases they came from. ANACS is better than that :)

I don't think that is the case, I understand what your saying, but I put the coins in something like this to send...
http://www.pmcash.co.uk/product_info.php?products_id=2387?osCsid=239mh739vm9a2ku6iatdib5ee4
which I mark and correspond to a line on the sheet I send with it.
Then it is graded and put into their plastic case, which I am not sure if that is marked so that I can distinguish which coin is which once they arrive back to me?

I see this as a potential problem.  No disrespect to you DebitMe, but if the coins do not all come back with the same grade you are going to have some people who make accusations regardless of what precautions you take.  I am not aware of any method to identify a particular one of these coins.  They do not have a serial number or even a run number.

If anyone can lend claim to them coming back marked somehow that allows me to identify which coins are which line on the submitted sheet, then it should be fine.  Of course someone will complain, someone always does, but they can bitch and whine all they want, they will get what they get (assuming a way to identify them is used and I go through with doing this), if someone cannot lend credit or ANACS does not respond and tell me that they are marked on return, then I will not go through with this for that reason.

I know people will make accusations regardless, but I really don't care at that point.  I am a very high outstanding member here and I doubt the baseless accusations of a single individual will carry much weight.  Either way, doesn't matter if I don't get answers to my questions.

ANACS will grade 1 coin or 5, cost is the only difference. I am not really sure why anyone would want to grade these though?

Well, I finally received my coin after one month, one week and 5 days. It looks great and I'm very pleased!

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http://www.ebay.com/itm/Casascius-Coin-/271780041237?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3f475a5215 (http://www.ebay.com/itm/Casascius-Coin-/271780041237?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3f475a5215)

Potentially the first of these coins to enter the secondary/resale market?

The auction starts at $135 with a buy-it-now price of $175.

What do you think?

Guess we'll have to wait.
The guy could have also artificially set the market price by setting a higher BIN and chancing it.
You'd need more than one to be sold to determine a true market price.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/2014-Casascius-Game-Day-Coin-Bitcoin-Bowl-St-Petersburg-Rare-Silver-w-Gold-/271741647903?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3f45107c1f

BIN of $160

There have been a few that have crossed ebay.

Got mine in, looks awesome!

https://i.imgur.com/UB2NxPp.jpghttps://i.imgur.com/CLhiFUy.jpg

Order #1341 was placed on February 23, 2015 and is currently Completed

still waiting it has been a month so far

Damn. That sucks dude. I hope it arrives soon.

yeah hopefully wont be too long till I have it

Mine took around 3-4 weeks if I'm not mistaken. Shipped to the EU

I'm sure it'll come and its worth the wait :)

i think almost everyone had to wait over a month to get the coin

Damm, I should have bought a lot of them, the second market on these is quite dynamic...

What are they going for?

I haven't seen anything for crazy money. I've seen a couple at 0.4 BTC. I paid 0.3 something from the site when the price was higher. It'll be interesting to see whether they're venerated in the years to come.

As sais like a 30%-40% above original price. It would have been some easy money :/

I sold 3 for a total of 1.5 BTC a little over a week ago. Probably could have got more if I waited or shipped outside the US. I remember seeing a 0.6 offer

Nice! Thanks, punching myself now for not buying the 10 I had planed to get  :'(

True story, I bought those 3 from xetsr...I think one could get 0.6 for them.

I am still waiting for this order, I am also waiting for a response from the website

I think this will come as good news to everyone who has bought these:  Total circulation drastically dropped - I scrapped about 1,150 of them (out of the initial 2,000 produced) due to being unhappy with the quality and they will not be remade except perhaps as a different future coin.  (anything that looked like the uglies posted in this thread in my possession is no longer...)

I kept only the best ones.

Anyone who bought a crappy quality one (scratches or gold spills) PM me for an offer to get a better one.  (and I'm slow like usual BTW, I sit down and do coin related stuff only on occasion at the present)

hey mike, thanks for this, any idea if my order has been lost in transit or something?

ordered on 23rd of feb and it is marked as completed on website.

the support team is really slow with getting back to me

Hey Mike,

That is a really nice offer you have there. My coin looks good so I don't need to exchange it, but it's good to hear that you are willing to exchange ugly ones.

Also very pleased to hear from someone who only bought the one  ;D

I added some of the other logo'd stuff they sold and have a cool thing to commemorate this auspicious game.

Yeah I must have lucked out with my coins.

Interesting guys, seems like this was the one and only Bitcoin/Bitpay Bowl.

http://siliconangle.com/blog/2015/04/02/the-bitcoin-bowl-is-no-more-after-bitpay-espn-cancel-sponsorship-deal/

I got my 10. Here's to hoping they become part of Bitcoin lore.

I am a little worried about my purchase,

23rd of feb is when i bought it,

one response from customer support saying they would get back to me (about 5 days ago)

since... nothing

I would email them again, don't stop bothering them until you get the coin!

finally got the coin!

while not in mint condition is still not bad, some of the b gold is missing around the edges but still looks v sexy.

not sure if I will swap for a different coin mike is talking about or just keep it.

thanks

http://imgur.com/93TUEXX,80zd7pd,r8ZXCqs,44dfuVw