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.

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.

You have not wasted $20
There are other ways of creating the private key + print.

I did not use the DIY software.
I created the private keys using a copy of www.bitaddress.org, copied the HTML file to a offline computer with a printer attached.
(I actually tossed a dice 99 times to create a random BASE99 number, so I did not have to trust ninja's random generator)

I then made a template in paint (2 x square that fits serp coins if folded), and copy-pasted in the private in one of the squares and the puplic key in the other square.

Print, cut, fold, and assemble.

Very easy to do, all with standard software.

(also recommended to "test/verify" the private key offline with bitaddress.org before loading the coin)

Edit: I do not want to hijack serp thread, PM and I can help you with this method if you like the idea and my explanation is not clear enough.

What is the owls relation to the Drachma currency?

(That owl is looking at me  )

All minted coins have a premium on top of the face value.
The premium can variate greatly depending on the coin, there are many factors such as: rarity, condition/grading, metal value ect. 

I was selling physical DOGE coins earlier here on the forum, they sold for around 0.05 BTC, face value was 10000 DOGE (~ 0.01 at that time), than means that the premium was 0.04 BTC.

Offer sent via PM!

just delete an old post, and you are back on leet

I do not have the time to convince you.

There is also the option to get a laptop without a wifi module, while some models might have the wifi chip build in, I am sure that some models still uses modules.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMEpgNTjA04

And this one made me lol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwTjsw0Tl2U

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

I think what coinits means is that there is a physical "turn off wifi" switch on most laptops (all my IBM/Lenovo has such a switch).
This switch is physically connected to the sleep pin on the wifi chip, there is NO way malware can override this function.

Nice coins

(Watching)

Agreed, I was hesitating with the 2014 model... But I think the puzzle got me convinced to get the 2015, that one will be epic

I just studied the twitter plus http://pastebin.com/vKpnWQcp

What a mess.

Yes, it is horrible. Crypto is still the wild-wild-west. Feel sorry for the people who lost funds.
I am just trying to get an overview of what happen.

Was the upgrade to V2 just a scam to stall people and get time to cash out?

I am not a big user of altcoin (maybe with the exception of LTC and DOGE, but physical coins only).

Can one of you hardcore altcoin users give me a summery of what happen to mintpal?

I rarely exchange alt's but after virurex died I start using mintpal, kinda like that site... last thing I saw that they had a big launch of V2.
And ever since that they never got up running again (luckily I did not have any funds there).

I just read a post about a poor user who lost DRK coins there.
What is the story behind mintpal? Hack, owner ran with money, technical issues?

(speculations are welcome as well)

Thanks

Are you going to fund it? If yes, will you break off that metal thingy?
Or will you just keep it unfunded?

Happy year, and cheers

Does the 2015 coin automatically opens when you get each of the five balls into the center circle?

That is a very good idea.
The PGP key can also be used to retrieve your account if it should be hacked, it seams like you are an obvious target.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=497545.0

Feel free to send me an encrypted message if you need to make a few test

My PGP finger print is in my signature.