Wow, really? These things are getting cheap. I wonder if they’ll ever get a collectors premium again.
If that's true then it's now less than the value of the shitforks plus selling the empty coin. Throw in security and shipping concerns and you'd have to be a true believer, and somewhat charitable, not to peel it instead of selling.
Looks like the peel price on a 0.5 BTC Casascius Coin is currently about 0.525 BTC. Peeling and selling the empty coin would likely be more profitable and less risky but a bit more of a hassle. I'm curious if we're beginning to see a discount for reasons like fear of damaging during peel, being unable to claim correctly, no faith the BTC is really there, etc... Prefork BTC are only becoming rarer as the days pass. You'd think that would make for a premium at some point.