[WTS] 1BTC Casascius Silver Round /w Gold B - GOLD HEART ERROR COIN - VERY RARE!

[bitmarket.io]

Hello folks, so I decided to put one of my most prized Casascius coins up for sale...

It's the 1BTC Casascius Silver Round /w Gold B - HEART ERROR COIN - with a little heart gold electro plated to the top-left of the B. It's the only one of its kind with this kind of error making it extremely rare.

It's in absolute mint condition. It was never removed from it's air-tight capsule since I received it 3 years ago. I did send it in to have it graded to have it preserved in a very durable plastic shell. I consider the grade irrelevant as it's in mint state as received from Mike and from what I've discovered is that ANACS doesn't take the grading process for these seriously.

Shipping is free via USPS priority mail (registered) to CONUS buyers. International shipping is $50.

Escrow is handled by Blazed.

My asking price is 4.5 BTC

Below are a couple pictures, but what I really recommend you see is my 4K recording of the 3 coins I am selling, including this beauty. You'll get a better view of the details and their cool hologram.

See it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itpg4kkvcdk

The other 2 coins in the view are (click on the link to view their listing):

• 10BTC Casascius Silver Round /w Gold B - MINT - MOST DESIRED COIN!
• 1BTC Casascius Solid-Silver Round - MINT GRADE!

Finally, here are the photos for this coin:

[coin@coin]

Oh wow didn't even know there was one of a kind with a gold heart. This is pretty unique.
Curious to see how quickly this sells. 

[digicoinuser]

Oh wow didn't even know there was one of a kind with a gold heart. This is pretty unique.
Curious to see how quickly this sells.  

This coin was posted quite some time ago and did not sell due to the premium requested.  
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=680240.0
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=703713.0

The heart wasn't meant to happen from what I know, and looks like a plating error.

[bitmarket.io]

Oh wow didn't even know there was one of a kind with a gold heart. This is pretty unique.
Curious to see how quickly this sells.  

This coin was posted quite some time ago and did not sell due to the premium requested.  
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=680240.0
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=703713.0

The heart wasn't meant to happen from what I know, and looks like a plating error.

Thanks for the links. They do have more info on this coin if anyone is interested in it.

[bitkilo]

I have never seen one of these before, thanks for posting the pics.
I had to look twice to actually see that there was a gold heart on the coin and it didn't just get that name from something else.

Good luck with your sale.

[Sourgummies]

1.3 btc I can offer

[bitmarket.io]

1.3 btc I can offer

lol

[Sourgummies]

1.3 btc I can offer

lol

Again, care to counter?

[mindtrip]

I can up the offer to 2.5 BTC

[bitmarket.io]

I can up the offer to 2.5 BTC

Thanks for the offer but it's too low. Already received offers higher than that.

[mindtrip]

Ok so what's your highest offer and I'll see if I can counter it

[smoothie]

Couldn't someone just take a Casascius and send it to a gold plating company and have it gold plated the same shape or symbol for a decent fee?

[Lutpin]

Couldn't someone just take a Casascius and send it to a gold plating company and have it gold plated the same shape or symbol for a decent fee?

Yes. Or to quote casascius on that matter:
"Someone could have done it themselves. I didn't do this deliberately if it came from me"

[bitmarket.io]

Couldn't someone just take a Casascius and send it to a gold plating company and have it gold plated the same shape or symbol for a decent fee?

Not worth the time and money. It would be very funny for these 'error' coins to suddenly start popping up. With questionable quality. So while yes someone could do it, it's unlikely. If there was one out there with an error like this or more it would of made its way to the public eye by now.

[SaltySpitoon]

Not worth the time and money. It would be very funny for these 'error' coins to suddenly start popping up. With questionable quality. So while yes someone could do it, it's unlikely. If there was one out there with an error like this or more it would of made its way to the public eye by now.

Not to say that yours was done this way, but thats not really true. I hadn't thought about it before, but I could electroplate any shapes someone wanted on a coin for less than $20. You just need a couple of acids, a bit of gold, a battery, and plastic wrap with whatever shape you want to be plated cut into it.

That said, that comparison is like saying collectors coins with flaws are worthless because someone could get an unflawed coin and replicate the flaw themselves. Things that are messed up straight from the mint tend to have a higher value with collectors.

[smoothie]

Couldn't someone just take a Casascius and send it to a gold plating company and have it gold plated the same shape or symbol for a decent fee?

Not worth the time and money. It would be very funny for these 'error' coins to suddenly start popping up. With questionable quality. So while yes someone could do it, it's unlikely. If there was one out there with an error like this or more it would of made its way to the public eye by now.

It doesn't cost much. Perhaps you should look into the cost of doing such a task prior to saying it's "not worth the time and money" to do so given the premium you are asking is more than $20-$50 above what a casascius 1 BTC silver coin costs at market price. You are asking at least $1000 higher than a normal 1 btc casascius silver with gold BTC sells for.

People will do with their money what they want, not stopping them of course. Just stating the obvious about cost vs price.


Good luck with your sale.

[smoothie]

Couldn't someone just take a Casascius and send it to a gold plating company and have it gold plated the same shape or symbol for a decent fee?

Yes. Or to quote casascius on that matter:
"Someone could have done it themselves. I didn't do this deliberately if it came from me"

I was not aware Mike said this, so then how would one know for sure that the "heart" was indeed legitimately from a batch of coins that Mike sold and had gone through him with that gold heart "error"?

I remember there being some discussion directly with Mike about this. I can't remember what the conversation ended with regarding the gold heart.

As I've said someone could easily pay a small fee and have the same mark on their casascius coin or another error mark of their choosing and call it an error.

I'm no expert on the history of this specific coin, but one should question the legitimacy of such a coin and what that cost should be to determine a fair market price for it.

[smoothie]

Not worth the time and money. It would be very funny for these 'error' coins to suddenly start popping up. With questionable quality. So while yes someone could do it, it's unlikely. If there was one out there with an error like this or more it would of made its way to the public eye by now.

Not to say that yours was done this way, but thats not really true. I hadn't thought about it before, but I could electroplate any shapes someone wanted on a coin for less than $20. You just need a couple of acids, a bit of gold, a battery, and plastic wrap with whatever shape you want to be plated cut into it.

That said, that comparison is like saying collectors coins with flaws are worthless because someone could get an unflawed coin and replicate the flaw themselves. Things that are messed up straight from the mint tend to have a higher value with collectors.

A perfect example is the XMR coins I got minted that were reversed in the original design. The mint gladly wrote a letter, signed it by all parties to indicate it was indeed a minting error. All of the proper documentation is there to prove the errors in the coins.

Agreed, minting errors tend to carry much more weight. Gold plating could be faked (not saying this one is or isn't).

[bitkilo]

A perfect example is the XMR coins I got minted that were reversed in the original design. The mint gladly wrote a letter, signed it by all parties to indicate it was indeed a minting error. All of the proper documentation is there to prove the errors in the coins.

Agreed, minting errors tend to carry much more weight. Gold plating could be faked (not saying this one is or isn't).

Maybe any "error" coins that hit the market for the first time should be sold with these papers, to be able to match the coin serial number/bitcoin address with the papers would solve any discrepancies like this down the track.

I thought i remember reading about fake Casascius error holograms once but i could be mistaken.

[Sourgummies]

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