Good to hear nubbins. Loving the community involvement that everyone is showing. This is going to become such a big question mark once we break out into the mainstream collectibles community and we are paving the way to being able to answer the big question of "Are the bitcoin still on this coin?"

5 - teeGUMES

There is a No Sniping rule which is what a bid three seconds before end time would be. Sniping.
I was willing to go a couple more rounds with you Ramelius but after seeing ~30 minutes go by with no other bids I felt confident smoothie would have called it in my favor and I went back to bed.

0.02BTC

0.016BTC

0.014BTC

0.012BTC

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One of the more rare/higher end CI sets.

CryptoImperator 1/2oz Gold 1BTC Coin Only 10 made
Original Sales Thread - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1542119.0



CryptoImperator 1/2oz Silver 0.5BTC Coin (Design commissioned by CanaryInTheMine) Only 21 made
Original Sales Thread - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1834481.msg18257347#msg18257347

I've peeled the 2013 1BTC Silver/Gilt (already in thread) and a 2013 0.5BTC Brass that will be added to this thread with the next update and have not noticed the degree of adhesive you are finding in the private key recess on either coin. I actually happened to be right around the peeled coins when I saw you posted here and have taken these current pictures for you.

 

Things I can completely throw a guess at would be:
Humidity or heat causing some of the adhesive to run down underneath the insert

An application error by Mike Caldwell? Pretty monotonous applying holograms for hours and hours or even days on end. Of all the coins peeled and shown here so far this might be one of the first to have shown this sort of error application made by the creator.

There just doesn't seem to be any pattern or clue to the splotching pattern it ended up leaving.. this is definitely mind boggling because that adhesive should not be there at all. I'm interested in seeing the private key paper if you'd be willing to share with me even in private nubbins. Completely up to you but that is my main concern and why I created this thread and project.

Regardless of everything the paper splitting in two and being extremely thin should scare everybody. Trying to think of ways for if the thin layer that held the ink remained on the coin face down still... what do you even do? Should always have a scalpel or sharp/fine razor nearby when peeling, also if it starts to tear like that I'd personally try from the other side of the holo and hope that that side of the paper insert remained as one.

Glad you were able to document and share this peel with us nubbins.
Put an X on the board for paper inserts. Engraving looking better and better after every scary peel.

**Edited post, didn't like original reply.

Sent for shipping to the north.

Penny of the North

Because we can only see the first bits of 12CY on the first coin there is a chance it has been redeemed as seen earlier in the thread. A quick search of the Casascius fulllist.txt does show some 12CY coins that are not swept. However you can not sell this coin as loaded on this forum anymore due to the tamper proof honeycomb effect being present. Your best bet there is to sweep it yourself and sell it unloaded if you'd like. Fingers crossed it is just peeled and not swept by your uncle.
12CY coins:
https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/12CYkmtUESk1cnPfHJNpa4MZzYXfqVsjB6 swept
https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/12CYrRADWbiMpkTgxnXUjgeEeh14jBNUP4 not swept
https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/12CYt2o6KmshYBgRJBWdVsBKniFJ3dNBvx not swept
https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/12CY9ukdXxwszPMX7hLRFyrXZLmu5tuBK1 not swept
https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/12CYAesrsyPaGHanJi6GrgfETE5Hzb4qZ6 not swept
https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/12CYsLHJ2hFJ3wsGbcU9Qmg7MN7N3bBhBv never loaded


The second coin looks to be intact and loaded and you should have no problem selling it as loaded here.
https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/12CwQ5kqGZ82qRNEn843EQjjhYJvspoZt5

It may be your first piece of bitcoin art but it is quite a few coins down the line from being the first.

MJB Monetary Metals started in 2011 with these

Mike Caldwell started producing Casascius coins in 2011

And I believe BitBills predates both of those. Someone can chime in with the earliest known bitcoin collectible as I don't know which it is off the top of my head.

Here is the thread where the creator MJB Monetary Metals released these upon the forum. These have also been copied and mass produced through many Chinese manufacturers. Rather than the original copper they are probably brass or some cheap alloy. Hard to know which you may have.

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Or it's a Buyer Funded (0.05BTC) but 0.1BTC denominated coin. No worries OP, getting into millibitcoin is confusing unless you train yourself to think that way.

I've used Mycelium (phone app) to sweep everything with mini private keys. Lealana uses this format and you should not have a problem with it. The correct address is whatever the private key turns into on Mycelium. (You'll input the 30ish digits into making an account from private key and it will give you the corresponding public key and amount loaded.)
You sound like you may be an Apple guy though, I only have experience with the Android client.

Bitcoin All Time High Bump
Looks like a lot of new and old eyes coming back to the forum recently with coins. Ever wonder what's under your hologram?

Should have a pretty major update with new coins/cards/notes towards the new year, if not shortly after. Lots of coins in the post still on their ways to me.

I'd read every post in here 100x over and respect them more than you blindly giving trust to an early account that hasn't posted in two years, has the "recently woke up from inactivity" flair in their trust, and comes in flaunting the possibility of coins worth $19k up to $475k without pictures or proof.

With new buyers entering the space (Est2013 seems to be one and interested here) we need to be pushing the "Verify, don't trust" way of doing things here, which in this case is completely ass backwards to what you're preaching with your post in this thread.

Sure leave him trust, nothing wrong with that but flaunting it in this thread making newbies think they should trust him with zero proof of coins. Wrong. We don't do that here.