Beautiful piece.  Gotta get my hands on of these  
  

Final day of the sale 

#1 .008BTC

Looking for both Ledger Pizza Edition (a few would be nice?) as well as the first edition Trezor Metal (preferably new/sealed, for both)

Message me with your price, please.  

*sale has ended


Some examples:


(*NEW!  8 remaining)


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Nearly 40 panels to choose from. If anyone has any questions, please do not hestiate to let me know. Hope you all are having a nice Friday evening!

Link here to check out all of the panels offered: https://lynxartcollection.com/collections/metal-panels-limited-to-10

Nicely done

Please do put me down for what you have me marked as with the question mark, the same number as the last coin (49)

Absolutely beautiful.

W7 0.13BTC
W21 0.14BTC

Nice, haven't seen this piece before!

.009BTC

Very nice! 

#1 .005BTC

Locking the thread now since the project has been canceled.

Thank you to those who showed interest as well as to those who offered constructive criticism. 

Best,

Frank

If you thought that we created this artwork, that was your own assumption.  I clearly stated who's work it was and that we were wanting to offer it onto a coin.  Plenty of 'due diligence' was done.

You were not the reason we canceled the project.  We were already considering canceling it prior to your comment.  It's fairly difficult to move forward with minting a coin with only 20 reservations (for a coin to be minted at a quantity of 75).  But you are probably already aware of this.  Right?

There's no reason to go on and on.

You didn't like the idea of putting this art onto a coin.  I get it.

Some people did like the idea.

At the end of the day, we decided not to move forward with the project.  Now you're going to continue on and act as I've we've misrepresented something in this thread when, in reality, we never did.

I don't need to cite wikipedia pages for the artist lol.  I gave his name - hence why you were able to find it.

It's not a 'catch' of anything.  It was clearly stated in the original post:

"This coin features artwork that was originally created by Elihu Vedder in 1896.  The artwork is on display in the halls of the Library of Congress."

Thank you.  We will see what the future holds.

Best,

Frank

I really do appreciate that.  Thank you for taking the time to share all of your positive thoughts.

Based on insufficient reservations within the first few days of release, we have decided to cancel this project.

Any project can and will receive both positive, and negative, reaction(s), unfortunately.  

If you have made a reservation, our apologies; please DO NOT send payment.  Anyone who has paid (which is only one person, Stacy), will be contacted and refunded immediately.

We employee 10 artists.  So yes, we usually always have something new in the works.  That only makes sense for a group of artists who have been working in the art field for many years.

We decided to make this piece because we legitimately thought it was an awesome contribution to the crypto community.  

I don't see a problem with creating a variety of art pieces for a variety of different crypto pieces.  It's all been well received.  I'm not on a 'money grab', that was not our intention.  You have absolutely no idea what goes on behind the scenes of our business.  I don't think it's dignified for you to make assumptions.  

*physical Bitcoin

No artistry?  We did a ton of research on Vedder to determine which pieces we wanted to use and why, exactly, we wanted to use them.  Even coming up with the idea of using Vedder's work is artistic in itself.  And determining the images to display, representing the meaning of corrupt government and the ability to revolt, inducing anarchy, is not artistic?  These are key components of Bitcoin.  And that itself has artistic power, I feel.  We created the slogans, as well.  Even just coming up with the concept of mirroring the two arts, in order to depict both stances, seems pretty artistic in my eyes.

We did discuss perhaps using our very own original art for our very first coin.  In fact, we are working on a new art piece, now, that has been in the works for a few weeks and will continue to be in the works for at least 2-3 more.  It features the past and the present.  On the left of the art features a city in ruins, the federal reserve eagle shattered on the ground, burned currency, etc etc.  On the right, a city in beauty - beautiful grass and trees, graceful birds, and futuristic buildings erected into the shapes of several popular cryptos.  We thought long and hard about offering that as our very first coin, along with the original art piece to go with an auction of the #1 coin.  But we thought it would be really neat to incorporate Vedder's work into a physical coin.  It has never been done before and we personally appreciate what Vedder portrayed.  We really liked his philosophical concepts and his presentation.  And we figured his work would be much appreciated on a coin. 

I'm not sure what you mean about the Top 65 coin piece.  How was that "piggybacking" off of another artist?  I created that art myself.  I took all of the logos, determined the marketcap at the moment of creation, and worked all of those in Illustrator before printing them onto our metal panels.  I didn't take anyone's artwork nor did I take anyone's idea.  If this is in regards to the fact that someone pointed out it looked like a book cover, then I'm sorry, but that was a mere coincidence.  In fact we only created the art because someone reached out to us with the idea and asked us if it's something we could possibly do.

Regarding price, I feel that the price is quite fair and warranted.

How do you know that we are not taking a loss, as well, on this project?

The coin is not simply a cost of minting.  There are a ton of costs that are going into this.  To name a few, the silver, as you mentioned, the charge for the actual coin striking, the charge for the coin's die, the charge for our designer to prepare the artwork, the charge to prepare the hologram artwork, the charge for the setup fees and creation of the physical hologram as well as the charge for the actual holograms themselves, the charge to have keys generated and engraved, the charge for shipping (for domestic, and international), the charge for receiving, preparing, and packaging, which covers all of our facility charges and faculty charges, as well, ... there's a ton that goes into the cost of this as well as many of our projects - many of which can easily be overlooked when you're not fully aware of the entire cost of said project.

Regarding hesitation - I did not anticipate this coin selling out in a day or two.  Many people, as you mentioned, will want to see the physical coin, first, and see its quality, before moving forward with any type of reservation.  And that's perfectly acceptable.  I look forward to presenting something of high-quality that the community can cherish and display proudly.

updated pictures 

St Augustine, Florida.

Note:  Shipping is included for both domestic and international shipments (we're eating the cost of it, basically).