The centrally placed ‘B’ in this round is surrounded by several currency symbols, suggesting that Bitcoin is superior to the dollar, euro, and yen, as well as silver and gold. The round prominently features a complex mathematical equation; a first for physical crypto-currencies. The equation is taken from the Bitcoin white paper by Satoshi Nakamoto …
Material: .999 Silver
2014 Silver Wallets BTC Design 1
This is the first round produced by Silver Wallets, and can be seen as the ‘flagship’ product due to its mintage number and the gold variation. It features the ‘B’ symbol with a backdrop of the world map, with binary code covering up the empty space taken up by oceans. The text above states ‘Universale …
2013 Bitcoin Nerd BTC The 10,000 Bitcoin Pizza
Launched after a successful sale of the ‘Genesis Block’ coins, the ‘Bitcoin Pizza’ coin memorializes another day in Bitcoin history. On May 22nd, 2010 (16th month of BTC existence), the first ever purchase using bitcoin was made. Laszlo Hanyecz traded 10,000 BTC which he had mined for two pizzas, which the ‘buyer’ of the BTC …
2013 Bitcoin Nerd BTC The Genesis Block
Created as a fundraiser for ‘The Bitcoin Museum’, this coin commemorates the ‘Genesis Block’; the first block of bitcoin mined by Satoshi on January 3rd, 2009. The reverse displays the historic address to which the genesis block was mined, and where it still remains today. Interestingly, some additional BTC has been sent to the address …
2013 Antaui 5 WDC Silver WorldCoin
Antaui was created by Nathan Gudmunson, a PHP developer who was head of development (and chair of the board) for Worldcoin. Worldcoin is an alternative crypto-currency which once had a very active community base and a market cap peak of nearly 24 million USD in late 2013. These coins were produced at the time of …
2014 Anarcoins UNO Unobtanium Silver Wallet
The Unobtanium Bar (Silver Wallet, as it is called by Anarcoins) is themed after a crypto-currency called Unobtanium. Although it is struck with the words ‘.999 Fine Silver’, only half (numbers 1-50 and 100-150) of the bars are actually pure silver whereas the other half (numbers 51-99 and 151-200) are silver plated copper. The bars …
2014 Anarcoins BTC Goxxed For the Last Time Silver
This is a round to commiserate (not to commemorate) the infamous collapse of the Mt. Gox Bitcoin exchange. In the early days of trading when Mt. Gox was the most popular exchange, users referred to the suffering of trading losses or bitcoin value decreases seemingly caused by the faulty operation of the exchange as being …
2012 10 BTC Series 2 10 BTC 2012 ‘Gold B’
This coin is the same as the series 2 10 BTC 2012 version, albeit with a gold plating added over the Bitcoin sign. It is notable that this coin (this specific image) is proudly displayed by Casascius as his Bitcointalk.org thumbnail image, and is prominently visible on his website. It could be argued that this …
2012 10 BTC Series 2 10 BTC 2012
Created in 2012, this was the first silver coin made by Casascius and a precursor to the 2013 series 3 line of silver coins. Four coins were funded in 2015. This design builds upon the back of the Casascius 25 BTC coins, resulting in a smooth design that looks good in silver. Very similar designs …
2013 0.5 BTC Series 3 0.5 BTC 2013
Released alongside the series 3 1 BTC 2013 coin, these were sold in rolls of 12. Unlike their 1 BTC counter-parts, these (like the 0.1 BTC coin) series 3 holograms do not utilize ‘laser rimming’ as a security measure. It is known that at least 42 additional 0.5 BTC coins are late funded (LF) in …