I heard a mention of fake Casascius coins somewhere the other day. I figured it was only a matter of time til some factory in China thought up the idea. If they can flood the precious metals market with fake products, I bet they can easily make a fake Casascius coin. I would imagine they buy a number of legitimate coins and then use the firstbits on those to create fake ones. The question is how long do they wait to redeem it? It'd have to be a while if they wanted to create any sort of business. If you plug-in the first bits on a coin you think is brand-new and you see its redeemed, you might realize you got scammed. Another thing though is what happens if someone tries to redeem one they don't know is fake? I imagine they would insert a fake private key in case of this.
Undoubtedly Casascius Coins will be harder to fake (because of the first bits/redeeming function) than a Morgan Dollar or something, but where there is a will, there is a way. There's a lot of money to be made, and mark my words-its just a matter of time until these things start to surface.

I see. Well thank you for not trashing them. I've been using OpenOffice, it'll be nice to install Word and everthing. And you messaged me. Thanks again!

LMFAO you should put a couple fish in there!

get rid of the grammar police

No offense taken at all. I consider you a friendly acquantence on here (and somebody I don't hesitate to do business with). I just decided to post these on a whim today...primarily because I am getting impatient with PayPal (a truly horrible company, all the shit-talking you hear about them is true). If I get a good offer I'll let a couple go, if not I'll hold onto them. I really want some of those aluminum things, but 500 is more than I need and I don't want to spend that much. I was disappointed when my effort to organize a group-buy sort of thing failed lol. If you need someone, put me down for 100!

I can do 2 for .5BTC total
(including 2 cases and domestic shipping)

that is less than I paid to acquire some of these

SO,
I used to (and still do, to some extent) try to collect all the Casascius blanks I can. By "blanks" I mean redeemed and cleaned coins, or as is the case with the 5BTC rounds you see pictured, rounds that never even had a hologram on them (bought from Casascius as blank "roll your owns"). Each blank I would carefully polish to get looking good again (this is not the same as cleaning; cleaning a coin is bad, polishing it is something different. I know a few things about coins . Then, I would list them in an auction on eBay as "Loadable Casascius Blanks". I would prep the coins for loading and used a tamper-proof hologram on the back, identical in function to Casascius's. I kid you not, each 5BTC blank I sold at auction sold for over $100. They all sold for over $150, except for one that sold for $120 something. Disclaimer: a couple of those auctions included .05 bitcoins (makes sense to load .05 on a 5BTC coin) that I would load once the customer confirmed they got their coin. THAT was my mistake. I listed these under "currency" and on some attached actual bitcoin value. Now my PayPal account is in ruins. It is "limited" and I have done everything to lift the limitations, but they are "still processing it"-fuck PayPal.
BUT, if you sell these under the "collectable" category as loadable bitcoins (include the hologram, all things necessary-maybe a case), and DO NOT include ANY bitcoin value, I think PayPal will leave you alone. Especially if you only sell one or two.

For 0.012 BTC, you receive (via USPS First Class Mail; International cost is 0.02BTC total)
1) Instructions (very detailed)
2) Tips on how to get the coins looking good w/household items
3) 2 Tamper-Proof holograms (in-case you make a mistake!)
4) an archival-quality coin flip

These are for sale on BitMit @ .4BTC/ea-and that doesn't even include what I will.
I personally think thats a bit high, but should be taken note of

I like auction-style posting, keep it going
*edit: I will contact you via PM if I like your offer.

I do, I just made a post.

Thanks x 1 million to OP, so please don't consider me a jerk for this, but if something seems too good to be true, it usually is. Has anyone installed and entered key? Everything working ok?

So,
I used to (and still do, to some extent) try to collect all the Casascius blanks I can. By "blanks" I mean redeemed and cleaned coins, or as is the case with the 5BTC rounds you see pictured, rounds that never even had a hologram on them (bought from Casascius as blank "roll your owns"). Each blank I would carefully polish to get looking good again (this is not the same as cleaning; cleaning a coin is bad, polishing it is something different. I know a few things about coins . Then, I would list them in an auction on eBay as "Loadable Casascius Blanks". I would prep the coins for loading and used a tamper-proof hologram on the back, identical in function to Casascius's. I kid you not, each 5BTC blank I sold at auction sold for over $100. They all sold for over $150, except for one that sold for $120 something. Disclaimer: a couple of those auctions included .05 bitcoins (makes sense to load .05 on a 5BTC coin) that I would load once the customer confirmed they got their coin. THAT was my mistake. I listed these under "currency" and on some attached actual bitcoin value. Now my PayPal account is in ruins. It is "limited" and I have done everything to lift the limitations, but they are "still processing it"-fuck PayPal.
BUT, if you sell these under the "collectable" category as loadable bitcoins (include the hologram, all things necessary-maybe a case), and DO NOT include ANY bitcoin value, I think PayPal will leave you alone. Especially if you only sell one or two. Like I said, I sold the 5BTC blanks in auction, not the 1BTC's. I have one up for auction w/a different payment method accepted other than PayPal (which ebayers know and are comfortable with)...people are staying away. I'll probably end up having to cancel the auction.
So, since you have the ability to make money that I no longer do, I suggest you buy a blank and take advantage of it!
I'm not going to list a price. I'm also not planning on selling ALL of these. When making an offer, keep in mind 1)the 5 BTC blanks were never used-they came fresh from Casascius, 2)all of these are 2012 blanks, 3) I will include for free (if you want) instructions, a hologram, a coin sleeve (or hardshell case if I like your offer) so you can sell these on eBay like I described. Please do not waste your time or mine lowballing. There is obviously real value here.

Yeah its really easy. If anyone wants to know how just PM me.

To respond to an earlier post, you were being trolled. The bottom line I think is-if you can afford a Lamborghini, you can afford to fix any problems it may have. Since these are not mass-produced, and are such high-performance machines, there often are problems that arise w/them. They're not necessarily huge problems though, and if you take special care (I'm sure you will-its a Lamborghini!) of it, your chances of encountering any "problems" with it are much smaller. Good luck, I am very jealous.

You are a @.],< BITCOIN BOSS

*white, not racist, but still can't make sense of all this*

Craigslist has a "FREE" section. Why don't we?

Is it possible to set up a rig w/a Rasberry Pi?

HA! Remember the night Bitcoins reached their historic high you offered me the 1/10 Platinum and 1/10 Gold @ 1.5BTC? My indecisiveness KILLS me.