Where did you get those plastic coins from ? I would love to get a bunch of them.

Its high time I started my young lads 'cryptocoin' apprenticeship. He doesnt know it yet, but hes already got a pretty amazing collection. For now, playing 'shop' with a bunch of those looks like a good place to start his journey 

Ahhhh, I hadnt made the .7 out as 2 distinct characters. Thought you might have a new fancy logo. Gotcha.

Even if it is considered as cleaned by ANACS, they will still grade it
http://www.anacs.com/contentPages/Services.aspx
But they will state "cleaned" on the slab, I believe. I dont know if they will then grade automatically at 60 because of this. All depends what they think.

Reading around a few forums (general coins, not cryptocoins)... its seems folks that have got cleaned coins, allow them to 'age a little', making the cleaning less obvious before submitting. It also seems that folks who have had coins come back labelled as cleaned will resubmit, hoping next time to dip under the graders radar. Even having them in a pocket with other coins for a while to 'unclean', accepting a lower grade, rather than a 'cleaned' label

Cleaning would be a way too risky option to do as a deliberate strategy for Cas coins in my mind. I had considered it for a particular coin, but decided against it

My gut feeling for this one is either a 60, or a 66, depending on which way ANACS go. Watching with interest, good luck :-)

So is that #1 from Week #1, or coin #1 ?

Paid :-)

Cheers. Serves me right for ignoring thread updates and waiting till when I thought the end would be in order to snipe !!

Big difference between Blazed's coin, and the examples with public keys not lining up to hologram windows, IMO. With the holo window, you know thats how they left Mike. Its not possible to be 100% for the series 1 coin.

Strangely the public keys not lining up to hologram windows is fairly common, and it seems the the 0.5 silver is where this happens most frequently (or thats where I have seen it happen most) ..... I have graded a few 0.5s like this. I have even seen 1 coin with only 6 of the 8 chars visible through the holo window.

ANACS will list the full public key on the slab, even if the full key isnt visible, if you can show them that the full key can be uniquely inferred .... ie you can see 7 of 8 characters, and even with just those 7, using a search on uberbills (or the casascius fulllist.txt), the full public key is the only one with those first 7.

It takes an emailed explanation to ANACS (and I include a print out of that email with the physical shipment) detailing all of the above. Hopefully they will then print all 8 chars on there. I have also managed to get them to do a reslab of a coin like this very recently (first came back with 7 chars, then reslabbed with 8, following explanation given).

I am unsure if ANACS are now referencing uberbills / spotcoins / fulllist.txt as part of their process.

Grrr ! hadnt seen this ....

If you have another available, drop me a PM

Good spot DC.

Ridiculous sheen on the brass side. Not quite the same sheen on the holo side. Couple of nicks around the edges, but thats the brasses for you.

Difficult to 'grade' in my mind. First impressions of the coin, given that sheen, is a definate wow.

Sorry for your loss Mike. Tough time, I am sure.

I would be interested in the redeemed bar, more within my price range than an intact bar .... but it would be a real shame if that ended up being the way it needed to be sold. Hope you can find a buyer for it 'as is'.

Is the sale (of the bar) fixed in USD, or could it be bitcoin ? (Effectively, could a USD offer be made, but the payment made in bitcoins)

Any limitations as far as international sales go ?

(Thanks, and welcome back)

For transparency (just like in a lotto, like this is), it would need to be seen that there is a named winner

I am not questioning your integrity here, far from it. I am just thinking you need to have thought of a mechanism to protect your integrity against any possible calls of foul play (from the 9 or 19 coin holders that didnt win).

Will you have any idea of which is the winning coin ? (if the winner decides not to come forward)

Love the idea though. Interested !

Will the coins appear in any way different to the standard 0.01 coins ?

UK imports from outside of the EU are as follows

Value over £34, then attracts 20% tax, plus the courier handling fee of between £8 and £14. Under £34 no charge

Some couriers just accept the valuations, others check. In the UK parcelforce is the worst for auditing values. Generally, anything shipped by usps express will use parcelforce at this end.

Safest always to describe as collectable tokens. Quote values related to metals spot price.

I would have taken your low number series 3 silver wallet. Let me know if it falls through

And why did you not trash the other half ? 

If a jobs worth doing .....

Did anything come of this Blazed ?

ANACS wont grade those coinographic bulls, they are just a tiny bit too big. I sent mine in, and they rejected them. They happily graded the 10's and 1's, just not the 25's.

I can sort you out AT101ET. I have 2 67's to choose from.

I will send you a PM later. Just nipping out now

Need to check if they are ANACS imaged, if not I will get you some pics done, as well as give you cert numbers, and public addresses

Escrow never a problem, so long as its one of the usual suspects

All now recieved with thanks. 

Where are you shipping from ?