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Re: These physical LTC look awesome!
by
AquaMan
on 14/06/2013, 05:48:23 UTC
Looks nice, but if so, that 1/2 oz silver 10 LiteCoin round is still only worth 1/2 oz silver, about $10 -

If its current rate of 10 LTC = http://dvcticker.appspot.com/btc-e/10ltc/usd.png at least. Not sure where you get $10.
Current price of silver is $21.81 oz, So that half oz coin is worth $10.90, it dosent matter what it says on it, you can put anything you want on a silver coin, its easy to do and it dosent make it worth anymore, silver is silver. It would be stupid to pay $20 or $30 for a $10 piece of silver.

I'm assuming that these will each be loaded with the private key to 10 LTC - like the Casascius Bitcoins. So $10.90 plus $23.79 plus premium to cover manufacturing costs and some profit for the guy making them. Gotta be looking at around 40 bucks each.
Yea but when you go to sell them no one is going to pay that premium you spent, so your losing money on them.. They are strictly souvenir coins. A big enough company puts any design on a coin they want and sell them for pennies above spot... apmex.com  -  providentmetals.com  - I am a gold and silver investor, I never buy anything with a premium, because your just losing money on it, but thats just me...

You should shut up now and look at casascius.com.

If you compare brand new physical litecoins to 2011 unique and funded Casacius bitcoins, you are going to have a disappointing experience.

I wasn't comparing them; Aquaman is talking about these like they're just silver coins with the Litecoin logo stamped on them, he doesn't appear to understand that they're preloaded with LTC.
It wasnt said they were going to be, if they are, then yes, itll be worth more, otherwise yes its just a silver coin with a logo stamped on it.