Commissioned by: Sometimes i just make the things i feel i need to make before i die. If someone buys it, its a bonus and a compliment.
Material: Grade AAA Purpleheart
Starting bid: 1BTC (Plus shipping of $12.50 in the USA )
Bid Increments: .1BTC

Auction ends Friday 12/5/14 at 12 Noon Eastern Standard Time Payment will be due in full within 24hours of the auction ending

Contact me if you live outside the USA to get a shipping quote.

Dare to dive into the raging markets of BTCitcoin. Going from bull to bear then back to bull all in only 1 day. "Mazuma" (Hebrew slang for money) represents all that Bitcoin is in today's market climates, and is the first of only 10 physical BTCitcoins i will be making for the 2015 calender year.

At 8" round and 2" thick Mazuma weighs in at just over 12 pounds and is carved from the highest grade Purpleheart wood a person can ever get their hands on. This high grade Purpleheart only comes from the top 3 or 4 feet of trees that exceed 160 foot tall and contains the highest resin concentration of Purpleheart wood which leads it to turning the deepest "crown royal" purple color you will ever find.

When freshly cut the heartwood of Purpleheart is a  dull grayish/purplish brown. Upon exposure the wood becomes a deeper eggplant purple. With further age and exposure to UV light, the wood becomes a dark brown with a hint of purple. The high grade Purpleheart that Mazuma is made of has a super high resin content that leaves it more purple than others after aging. This piece was freshly cut and worked by hand so it still has 5-10 years to fully age to its darkest color but will start to show its deep royal purples within the next week or two.

Mazuma can be hung on a wall, framed in a shadowbox or displayed on a pedestal or desk. Once sold, the purchaser can tell me how they intend to display it and i will prepare it for display.

For an extra .25BTC i will carve your bitcoin address and/or QR code into the reverse side of the coin as well as carve out a recess if you would like to store the private key to that address.

The buyer will receive a CoA (certificate of authenticity) from me usually within 1-2 weeks of receiving the artwork. As many of you who have bought my art already know, i use Bitcoin technology and Vanity addresses on my CoA's and it can take up to 2 weeks to generate the desired result.

Each of the 10 coins i make for the 2015 year will have a different design, and if you would like to request something special for your own coin design or a special denomination you may feel free to contact me and i can make sure that 1 of the 9 remaining is designed with you in mind.

Please feel free to ask any questions below, and if your bored and just browsing the web, take a minute to check out my other Bitcoin artworks.

Thanks Segvec !!!!

Many thanks Pistachio !!!!

 

Correct it just says one bitcoin, If the buyer wants to fund it, i can carve the address and QR code into the reverse of the coin for an extra .25 BTC as well as a cove where they can stash the private key when it arrives to them like a normal physical bitcoin.

My other works are in the link in my signature.

I will do the prep work for however you want to display it, but if you want to put it in a shadow box (if that is what you meant by display box) you will have to have one made locally. I will attach the pins for it to be mounted in a shadow box, or a bracket if you want to display it on a stand or desk, or the hangars if you want to mount it on the wall. But not a shadowbox as that requires more time, wood, carving.

$76.50usd was the cheapest of all of my freight carriers. Mazuma weighs 12 pounds

  Thank you for your bid, This would be the 7th of my Bitcoin artworks that would have ended up in Germany if you win. Seems Germans have a great appreciation for fine art. Something i did not know before.

Current highest bid is 1.3BTC

Auction ends in roughly 15 hours!!!

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