2014 Casascius St. Petersburg Bowl Bitcoin Coin

[iglasses]

Received my coin today, it's in perfect condition ! together with a cool tshirt  had to pay 35 euro ImportFees+TAX 

I had the same thought...bought the shirt, patch & a football.  Have to figure out a cool way to display all of it.

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[klondike_bar]

just ordered one - Im a bit skeptical of the markup and large (2000) run quantity, but it looks fantastic. It wouldnt be the first 1oz silver coin ive spent >$100 on

wonder if we will see it fire-sale for $50 in a few more months though... IMO, the sooner mike melts down the remainder and keep ths total of these in circulation low, the better

[hennessyhemp]

It's quite possible I will release far fewer than 2000.  Only a few hundred have made it into the wild.

I had hoped to have these ready and on the market for the Christmas shopping season but didn't quite get them out in time.  Because of this, a few hundred sold.  I am sure I could promo the heck out of them if I felt like getting rid of them, but meanwhile, given that BitPay's got the St. Petersburg bowl for 3 years, the way I am producing them now, it's economically feasible for me to melt & remint what I don't sell, to become another coin such as the 2015 coin.  When they are no longer available on the Bitcoin Bowl website, that might well be the end of public availability for this 2014 coin.

 

[DebitMe]

Ok, got my reply from ANACS, and they would be happy to grade these coins.  There is a 5 coin minimum and I have 3 coins I want graded....so here is my announcement to get your coins graded!

Join my ANACS coin grading run.  The costs are very simple and are broken out below... (U.S. Only)

Cost to ship to me -          Whatever it costs you
Cost to ship back to you                         -  $4
Cost to grade coin                                  -  $14 per coin
Cost to Ship to Grading Service               - $5 per coin
Cost to Ship from Grading Service to Me  - $5 per coin
My fee for time/plastic holder                  - $3 per coin

Total                                                      - $4 + $27 per coin

These seem to be the costs that it will take per coin to get graded, if you are interested please let me know and we can work on getting your coins to me so I can start the run.  Please let me know if there are any questions.

Thanks,

DebitMe

[TookDk]

Ok, got my reply from ANACS, and they would be happy to grade these coins.  There is a 5 coin minimum and I have 3 coins I want graded....so here is my announcement to get your coins graded!

Join my ANACS coin grading run.  The costs are very simple and are broken out below... (U.S. Only)

Cost to ship to me -          Whatever it costs you
Cost to ship back to you                         -  $4
Cost to grade coin                                  -  $14 per coin
Cost to Ship to Grading Service               - $5 per coin
Cost to Ship from Grading Service to Me  - $5 per coin
My fee for time/plastic holder                  - $3 per coin

Total                                                      - $4 + $27 per coin

These seem to be the costs that it will take per coin to get graded, if you are interested please let me know and we can work on getting your coins to me so I can start the run.  Please let me know if there are any questions.

Thanks,

DebitMe

I was wondering...  how would you distinguish who owns each coin? If you collect a bunch of coins from different user, how would you distribute them fair, if they come back with different grades.
The coins itself do not have any serial number.  

[DebitMe]

Ok, got my reply from ANACS, and they would be happy to grade these coins.  There is a 5 coin minimum and I have 3 coins I want graded....so here is my announcement to get your coins graded!

Join my ANACS coin grading run.  The costs are very simple and are broken out below... (U.S. Only)

Cost to ship to me -          Whatever it costs you
Cost to ship back to you                         -  $4
Cost to grade coin                                  -  $14 per coin
Cost to Ship to Grading Service               - $5 per coin
Cost to Ship from Grading Service to Me  - $5 per coin
My fee for time/plastic holder                  - $3 per coin

Total                                                      - $4 + $27 per coin

These seem to be the costs that it will take per coin to get graded, if you are interested please let me know and we can work on getting your coins to me so I can start the run.  Please let me know if there are any questions.

Thanks,

DebitMe

I was wondering...  how would you distinguish who owns each coin? If you collect a bunch of coins from different user, how would you distributed them fair, if they come back with different grades.
The coins itself do not have any serial number. 

The ANACS service asks you to put the coins into plastic cases and mark each one with a number that corresponds to the line on the request that you submit.  I assume they come back marked somehow, but I have no prior experience with this.  Can anyone lend an hand if they come back distinguished from each other?  If they do not, then this group grading will probably not happen, because I will have no way of knowing whose coin is whose.

[klondike_bar]

Ok, got my reply from ANACS, and they would be happy to grade these coins.  There is a 5 coin minimum and I have 3 coins I want graded....so here is my announcement to get your coins graded!

Join my ANACS coin grading run.  The costs are very simple and are broken out below... (U.S. Only)

Cost to ship to me -          Whatever it costs you
Cost to ship back to you                         -  $4
Cost to grade coin                                  -  $14 per coin
Cost to Ship to Grading Service               - $5 per coin
Cost to Ship from Grading Service to Me  - $5 per coin
My fee for time/plastic holder                  - $3 per coin

Total                                                      - $4 + $27 per coin

These seem to be the costs that it will take per coin to get graded, if you are interested please let me know and we can work on getting your coins to me so I can start the run.  Please let me know if there are any questions.

Thanks,

DebitMe

I was wondering...  how would you distinguish who owns each coin? If you collect a bunch of coins from different user, how would you distributed them fair, if they come back with different grades.
The coins itself do not have any serial number. 

The ANACS service asks you to put the coins into plastic cases and mark each one with a number that corresponds to the line on the request that you submit.  I assume they come back marked somehow, but I have no prior experience with this.  Can anyone lend an hand if they come back distinguished from each other?  If they do not, then this group grading will probably not happen, because I will have no way of knowing whose coin is whose.

I assume its nothing to worry about. If you mark the coin cases only an incompetent grader would not put the coins back in the exact same cases they came from. ANACS is better than that

[DebitMe]

Ok, got my reply from ANACS, and they would be happy to grade these coins.  There is a 5 coin minimum and I have 3 coins I want graded....so here is my announcement to get your coins graded!

Join my ANACS coin grading run.  The costs are very simple and are broken out below... (U.S. Only)

Cost to ship to me -          Whatever it costs you
Cost to ship back to you                         -  $4
Cost to grade coin                                  -  $14 per coin
Cost to Ship to Grading Service               - $5 per coin
Cost to Ship from Grading Service to Me  - $5 per coin
My fee for time/plastic holder                  - $3 per coin

Total                                                      - $4 + $27 per coin

These seem to be the costs that it will take per coin to get graded, if you are interested please let me know and we can work on getting your coins to me so I can start the run.  Please let me know if there are any questions.

Thanks,

DebitMe

I was wondering...  how would you distinguish who owns each coin? If you collect a bunch of coins from different user, how would you distributed them fair, if they come back with different grades.
The coins itself do not have any serial number. 

The ANACS service asks you to put the coins into plastic cases and mark each one with a number that corresponds to the line on the request that you submit.  I assume they come back marked somehow, but I have no prior experience with this.  Can anyone lend an hand if they come back distinguished from each other?  If they do not, then this group grading will probably not happen, because I will have no way of knowing whose coin is whose.

I assume its nothing to worry about. If you mark the coin cases only an incompetent grader would not put the coins back in the exact same cases they came from. ANACS is better than that

I don't think that is the case, I understand what your saying, but I put the coins in something like this to send...
http://www.pmcash.co.uk/product_info.php?products_id=2387?osCsid=239mh739vm9a2ku6iatdib5ee4
which I mark and correspond to a line on the sheet I send with it.
Then it is graded and put into their plastic case, which I am not sure if that is marked so that I can distinguish which coin is which once they arrive back to me?

[iglasses]

I see this as a potential problem.  No disrespect to you DebitMe, but if the coins do not all come back with the same grade you are going to have some people who make accusations regardless of what precautions you take.  I am not aware of any method to identify a particular one of these coins.  They do not have a serial number or even a run number.

[DebitMe]

I see this as a potential problem.  No disrespect to you DebitMe, but if the coins do not all come back with the same grade you are going to have some people who make accusations regardless of what precautions you take.  I am not aware of any method to identify a particular one of these coins.  They do not have a serial number or even a run number.

If anyone can lend claim to them coming back marked somehow that allows me to identify which coins are which line on the submitted sheet, then it should be fine.  Of course someone will complain, someone always does, but they can bitch and whine all they want, they will get what they get (assuming a way to identify them is used and I go through with doing this), if someone cannot lend credit or ANACS does not respond and tell me that they are marked on return, then I will not go through with this for that reason.

I know people will make accusations regardless, but I really don't care at that point.  I am a very high outstanding member here and I doubt the baseless accusations of a single individual will carry much weight.  Either way, doesn't matter if I don't get answers to my questions.

[Blazed]

ANACS will grade 1 coin or 5, cost is the only difference. I am not really sure why anyone would want to grade these though?

[Mitchell]

Well, I finally received my coin after one month, one week and 5 days. It looks great and I'm very pleased!

[Possum577]

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Casascius-Coin-/271780041237?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3f475a5215

Potentially the first of these coins to enter the secondary/resale market?

The auction starts at $135 with a buy-it-now price of $175.

What do you think?

[AT101ET]

Guess we'll have to wait.
The guy could have also artificially set the market price by setting a higher BIN and chancing it.
You'd need more than one to be sold to determine a true market price.

[iglasses]

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Casascius-Coin-/271780041237?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3f475a5215

Potentially the first of these coins to enter the secondary/resale market?

The auction starts at $135 with a buy-it-now price of $175.

What do you think?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/2014-Casascius-Game-Day-Coin-Bitcoin-Bowl-St-Petersburg-Rare-Silver-w-Gold-/271741647903?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3f45107c1f

BIN of $160

There have been a few that have crossed ebay.

[Zackary]

Got mine in, looks awesome!

https://i.imgur.com/UB2NxPp.jpghttps://i.imgur.com/CLhiFUy.jpg

[bittawm]

Order #1341 was placed on February 23, 2015 and is currently Completed

still waiting it has been a month so far

[Mitchell]

Damn. That sucks dude. I hope it arrives soon.

[bittawm]

Damn. That sucks dude. I hope it arrives soon.

yeah hopefully wont be too long till I have it

[icey]

Mine took around 3-4 weeks if I'm not mistaken. Shipped to the EU

I'm sure it'll come and its worth the wait