#World Cup Predictions: 100,000 USDT Daily #BTC Prophet: 20-Day 380 Million HTX Challenge #HTXCommunity4thAnniversary Stack's Bowers Auctions Funded 0.5 Bitcoin Casascius Token From America's 237th BirthdayWhat’s Being Sold
According to the Stack’s Bowers Galleries announcement shared with Bitcoin.com News, the token is graded MS-66 by the Professional Coin Grading Service (PCGS). Only 15 examples exist at that grade. Just 11 coins have been graded finer, all at MS-67. The token remains funded, meaning the 0.5 $BTC loaded onto the blockchain at creation is still intact and redeemable.
The coin was produced by Mike Caldwell, a Utah-based software engineer who began minting the Casascius series in 2011. Each physical coin holds a private key beneath a tamper-evident hologram, with real bitcoin loaded onchain at the time of minting.
Why Casascius Coins Are Scarce
Caldwell halted production after regulators flagged the operation as a potential unlicensed money transmission business in 2013. The short production window left a finite supply. Attrition has narrowed that supply further: some owners have “peeled” their coins to claim the bitcoin, destroying the collectible and erasing its numismatic value in the process. Funded examples in high grades are now rare by any measure.
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