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1) BTC premium typically reduces over time as BTCUSD rises, but at the same time the numerismatic value of the coin also improves with age as it becomes rarer to find one for sale or viewing.
2) safety deposit box or other thoroughly-secured location. Viewing of a loaded coin by others is not recommended, or at least should consider the risk that the viewer may try to steal from you.
3) The effect of grading is unclear, as the digital value of the coin conducts such premiums. If you cannot grade within your home country, its likely not worth it. High-resolution photographs are probably as valuable as a graded slab, as it allows the buyer to evaluate the condition.
4) shipping out of country is tough, as it carries a risk of loss and can be difficult to correctly insure the coin. (notwithstanding the shipping logistics, an escrow such as minerjones is highly advisable). A local buyer is probably your best bet, even if its a lower bid than a US buyer.
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Those are kind words, about a gorgeous coin!
For those interested, I have an additional coin from that same roll of gilt coins that I am willing to part with - but due to BTC value it would need to be a trade done within canada.
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Edit: coin is pending and while offers can be made it is considered sold unless current deal falls through. I'm looking for offers on this coin. Aiming for around 1.5 btc. I bought this coin from klondike_bar on this forum in 2014 and have had it in storage ever since. (thread I originally purchased the coin in) https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=421036.20Thanks I can vouch that this coin was purchased from me in 2014. I received it directly from Mike C. Its a shame to see the fall in 'BTC-based premium' as these coins once sold for 2-3BTC each - but the 'USD-based premium' has never been better! I guess I always considered these as hedging my bets against BTC by paying a premium for cold storage  |
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*PUSHcome on guys.. egoism is a personality disorder 
i bid 1.35 btc for a 2012 coin today.. f is that an actual offer? |
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Hopefully anyone who arranges to meet in person with a $50,000 token follows the necessary steps not to get robbed.
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Well, can't really call this pure sniping, it was more like a 20 minute shootout.  Congrats to our little yellow bird for the winning bid. Lovely piece, hope to see more made available via the forum by Max. well said. Not like i was about to go toe-to-toe with the final bidding canary put up, but i didn't expect all the snipers hiding in them hills - lol |
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Thanks all- 9 hours left to bid (10am Pacific)
Following this, there will be one final rose 🌹 available. The tentative plan is to auction it near the end of the month after Thanksgiving.
Maxfield-
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awww c'mon. damn bid-snipers waiting around until the last 5 minutes after my bid sat there for two full days |
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Oh I understand there's a certain risk involved... I got a PK version, I got the address and there's bitcoin on that address. So I only have to trust he hasn't got the private keys stored and won't use them after all these years. I took that risk, I guess we'll see how it goes. Edit - Tim is not trustworthy Read the thread lol... :
EDIT: I was wrong - the sticker re-applies much more cleanly than one would expect, and i re-peeled a coin like a dummy. |
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I may find call to return again and will at least do you the courtesy of alerting you of sales / auctions of these coins elsewhere even if only to observe, assuming the likelihood of their being deemed to be overpriced by the OGs here. In the meantime, again but absent the 'sour-grapes-ness' of my message of last night, I'll wish everyone here the best for your endeavours and speculations  I wouldn't worry too much about it. When people are overly negative for seemingly curious reasons it typically says more about them then you. Obviously sales on this forum have slowed down a great deal, and the reasoning is extremely obvious although most people are in extreme denial over it... These coins were once sold for less than $20. Obviously they would change hands quite easily at those prices. Now they're changing hands around $60,000. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to see that something selling for $20 is going to move more units than something selling for $60,000. I understand a lot of people here are in absolute and complete total denial about the fact that 1 BTC does not equal 1 BTC over time and everything that has ever traded hands here has been done with respect to the dollar value, but it doesn't change the fact that it is absolutely true. When it comes down to it, a lot more people have $20 to spend on a speculative coin then have $60,000 to spend on one. That being said, this coin is one I wouldn't put in my collection. It appears to have some mold growth on it or something. It would never come anywhere near any of my other collectibles, so perhaps you further limited your pool of available buyers with that... My advice, instead of being upset that you only got 1.05 BTC for this coin, be extremely happy that you just got $55,000 for a coin you probably paid a couple hundred bucks for if you've owned it as long as it appears. Tell anyone outside of this community that story and they probably wouldn't even believe you it's such an amazing return. Good way to put it - but still sucks when viewed in BTC:BTC terms and not fiat:BTC. Ive watched the silver Cas coins go from 3+BTC to barely getting 1.3BTC and while the $$$ premium is great (and was often a rationale for the buyers of the precious metal coins) its hard not to be dissapointed when the BTC price barely exceeds the value of the coin and its various sidechains sadly with the brass coins it seems like selling a peeled coin is the least risk and still pretty close to the same profit. |
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Is there any way to support Hawaii cards (ie: R9 270x 2GB)?
I haven't had much luck finding a linux-based miner that can play nicely with these older cards
SRBMiner-MULTI, PhoenixMiner, GMiner they work at least with my R9 390 8GB and RX 580 8GB cards. Probably there are more but I know for sure these miners work. TRM I must say did work with my R9 390 but I switched to PhoenixMiner. But your R9 270x 2GB is way to old to be profitable anyway. interestingly, they should be marginally profitable at vertcoin, possibly some other algos ($0.20/day/card; and I have these 4 cards lying around unused since 2018.. And living in the North, the electrical heat isnt going to waste! without buying another mobo (already too many mobos catering to different RAM capacities of individual AMD / NVDA rigs using SimpleMiningOS (SMOS)); I was hoping to use my RX470(4GB) cards alongside the R9-270(2GB) cards to mine Vertcoin but i think the drivers are substantially different. I can see the GPUs exist but they do not show/accept any clockrates and will not play nice with any of the miners i tested to date. as FYI: 2x RX470 cards can make ~$2.50/day profit for me 2x RX470 + 4x R9270 can make ~$3.20/day profit for me (and the electrical heat further offsetting my natural gas consumption) so there's a bit of incentive to get the cards mining (plus the joy of seeing old GPUs still having some skin in the game!) |
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Is there any way to support Hawaii cards (ie: R9 270x 2GB)?
I haven't had much luck finding a linux-based miner that can play nicely with these older cards
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is verthash supported for R9 270X cards (2GB hawaii)? Obviously very old GPUs but great space heaters
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Another factor in finding these coins for sale is that the original slab holder was somehow chemically incompatible and created a sort of tarnish on the silver and gold coin surfaces.
I kept mine in a cool dry place in original case for ~5 years before i transferred it to a different capsule, and I'm kicking myself for it now. I'm sure that others' coins may be in even worse shape if still kept in that original slab.
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What's a good price for this one please?
10.2 BTC?
market is thin right now, but anything <10.5 BTC would be dissapointing if its in good condition (It should have like 0.1-0.2btc of altcoins/airdrops if im not mistaken) A few years ago a silver/gilt coin (1 or 10) had about a 1.5-2BTC premium (the 1oz of silver actually played into pricing!) which has slowly evaporated with time and the change in BTC price. |
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I'm pretty sure this isn't possible - but can phoenixminer/TREX/etc be configured to run multiple algorithms (ie: ETH on 8GB cards and KAWPOW on 3GB cards)?
Alternatively, can SimpleMining.net run 2 separate processes on the rig?
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I'm pretty sure this isn't possible - but can phoenixminer be configured to run multiple algorithms (ie: ETH on 8GB cards and KAWPOW on 3GB cards)?
Im using SimpleMining.net and am not aware of any means to run more than one mining kernel per rig.
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