2014 Casascius St. Petersburg Bowl Bitcoin Coin

[hennessyhemp]

Yes, if the defect is factory.

From what I read on the prior post, his coin appears the gold had been scratched (mishandled).

I purchased many of the coins, and I am happy with them overall.   That's not to say I wouldn't have chosen to swap out a couple had I been in a shop buying them, more specifically due to the premium paid on them.  I have more of an issue with the cases used.  I would highly suggest cleaning up the flashing before shipping them out.

I'm quite new to coin collecting/selling...what is the flashing that should be cleaned, the whole case, or just the part that touches the coin?




This is the one with the gold on the bottom rim spilling into the coin, as well as a little spill over off the BTC.  On the back at the top it appears there is a burn mark, but doesn't look damaged from a drop or anything.

[gentlemand]

Ugh. That gold spillage ain't too pretty.

[hennessyhemp]

I kinda like it, like the bottom was "dipped" in gold.

[Michail1]

...what is the flashing that should be cleaned, the whole case, or just the part that touches the coin?

Wow, the gold spill/misplacement is way off on your coin.  Not sure if it makes it more or less valuable.  I guess if more people want the in the future, it could fetch a price higher than they are now.  (Hope to have them more limited than the expected 2000)

The flashing I was talking about is the plastic on the case.   They Coin World made the plastic halves, they make (for example) 20 per press.  They are all connected to each other and then broken off a type of stem.  If you look at the coin, the flashing would be at the bottom of the case where the two halves connect.  On high quality cases or slabbing, they would debur this so it is clean or barely even visible.  I don't think this was the case on these units since all of my coins exhibit this flashing.

[kodiak1120]

I ordered mine on January 8th and it's still showing as "processing."  Is this normal?  10 days to process seems kind of ridiculous.

[RyNinDaCleM]

I ordered mine on January 8th and it's still showing as "processing."  Is this normal?  10 days to process seems kind of ridiculous.

I ordered mine on the 7th, so you can expect at least one more day...
I agree that if they have them on hand, they should be able to process a little faster than 2 whole business weeks.

[Mitchell]

I feel you guys. I ordered mine on the 4th of January and it's still not shipped. The two weeks have already passed and I think that this is ridiculous. Even Chinese ship stuff faster (within 10 business days and 70% of the time it's after 1 business day).

[smoothie]

Perhaps Mike can check on this ^ with the seller?

[Possum577]

I'm missing the appeal of this coin, how much publicity did Bitcoin get during the game?

[TookDk]

I feel you guys. I ordered mine on the 4th of January and it's still not shipped. The two weeks have already passed and I think that this is ridiculous. Even Chinese ship stuff faster (within 10 business days and 70% of the time it's after 1 business day).

4th Jan.. pffft
I ordered the 24th Dec 2014, no sign of the coins yet, the order is stated as complete, but no tracking has been provided, so I have no idea where my coins are.

[Mitchell]

4th Jan.. pffft
I ordered the 24th Dec 2014, no sign of the coins yet, the order is stated as complete, but no tracking has been provided, so I have no idea where my coins are.

This is badly organized by Stryde, that's for sure. I'm not blaming Casascius, though, he couldn't know that Stryde was so incompetent.

[smoothie]

4th Jan.. pffft
I ordered the 24th Dec 2014, no sign of the coins yet, the order is stated as complete, but no tracking has been provided, so I have no idea where my coins are.

This is badly organized by Stryde, that's for sure. I'm not blaming Casascius, though, he couldn't know that Stryde was so incompetent.

But the odd thing is there aint much competency needed to take coins put them in a box and ship them to person A, B, C...etc. Likely not Mike's fault from the looks of it.

[Mitchell]

But the odd thing is there aint much competency needed to take coins put them in a box and ship them to person A, B, C...etc. Likely not Mike's fault from the looks of it.

I know and like I said, I'm not blaming Mike, I'm blaming Stryde for failing to put a coin in a box, slapping an address on it and sending it out.

[notserp]

Yes, if the defect is factory.

From what I read on the prior post, his coin appears the gold had been scratched (mishandled).

I purchased many of the coins, and I am happy with them overall.   That's not to say I wouldn't have chosen to swap out a couple had I been in a shop buying them, more specifically due to the premium paid on them.  I have more of an issue with the cases used.  I would highly suggest cleaning up the flashing before shipping them out.

I'm quite new to coin collecting/selling...what is the flashing that should be cleaned, the whole case, or just the part that touches the coin?




This is the one with the gold on the bottom rim spilling into the coin, as well as a little spill over off the BTC.  On the back at the top it appears there is a burn mark, but doesn't look damaged from a drop or anything.

if mine looked like that i wouldnt care but its pretty obv someone dropped mine before closing the case.

[TookDk]

But the odd thing is there aint much competency needed to take coins put them in a box and ship them to person A, B, C...etc. Likely not Mike's fault from the looks of it.

I know and like I said, I'm not blaming Mike, I'm blaming Stryde for failing to put a coin in a box, slapping an address on it and sending it out.

Agreed. I am not blaming Mike for anything, still a big fan.

I would just appeal that he would sell the coins from his own webpage or here on the forum next time he release a coin. I know this is s football coin, so it is properly part of the deal that stryde have the rights to sell the coin. Nevertheless I will hesitate by ordering from Stryde again, I had problem in pretty much every step of the process... I am expecting nothing less that my coins has actually been tossed around like football before it was placed in the slap and shipped to me.

[jdebunt]

Received my coin today, appears to be in perfect condition.


Had to pay 20 EURO in import taxes though, but that was to be expected I guess

[hennessyhemp]

But the odd thing is there aint much competency needed to take coins put them in a box and ship them to person A, B, C...etc. Likely not Mike's fault from the looks of it.

I know and like I said, I'm not blaming Mike, I'm blaming Stryde for failing to put a coin in a box, slapping an address on it and sending it out.

Agreed. I am not blaming Mike for anything, still a big fan.

I would just appeal that he would sell the coins from his own webpage or here on the forum next time he release a coin. I know this is s football coin, so it is properly part of the deal that stryde have the rights to sell the coin. Nevertheless I will hesitate by ordering from Stryde again, I had problem in pretty much every step of the process... I am expecting nothing less that my coins has actually been tossed around like football before it was placed in the slap and shipped to me.

Other than not getting the discount, I paid with BTC and they shipped pretty much as stated a week and a half later, but I see several have had issues since.  Guess I was lucky.

What I'm curious about, is if their remaining stock is all they have, or if it's going to be reloaded with more once the next 57 are sold.

[kodiak1120]

I feel you guys. I ordered mine on the 4th of January and it's still not shipped. The two weeks have already passed and I think that this is ridiculous. Even Chinese ship stuff faster (within 10 business days and 70% of the time it's after 1 business day).

Especially when they charged me $20 to ship two coins that probably cost about $4 to actually ship.   

[FiniteByDesign]

Received mine on Friday. Very nice looking piece. Thank you Mike!

[Zackary]

Ordered one, hopefully the delay isn't too long..