I am blown away to see my earliest coins going for that much. It's crazy. Had I ever known...
Mike - I bought a 1BTC casascius series 2 coin from someone at a stall at Defcon XX (2012) - was that from you, or from a reseller?
Will
I talked one of the vendors into reselling them right on the spot. I was there. If you bought from me, I was wearing a custom made T-shirt that says "I SELL PHYSICAL BITCOINS" (made by the shirt press next door to the vendor you saw my coins at).
For being one guy, I sold quite a few coins in the hallways, and made a healthy convenience premium over spot price doing so. It was like $9 BTC at the time, and I was asking $20 for one coin or $30 for two coins. NOwadays buyers are willing to pay more than that just to order them online, so I can only imagine how well somebody would do selling them in person at a booth at DefCon this year.