Very cool!

But why not sell the coins without the holograms attached to them? The paranoid amongst of us would appreciate. 

I may consider doing this. We'll see.  

I would not sell my holograms unattached to the coins. That would create too much confusion as someone could swap holos and coins etc.

Great to hear you're back!
Going to place an order quite soon!!!
Thanks

FinCEN's main concern was that I (or another business) would receive BTC/LTC from customers then turn around and fund the coins they bought and not necessarily with the exact same coins used to purchase. This, to them, is somewhat shady and needs to have some light shown upon this (perhaps money laundering?).

 Given I now am never going to touch any customer's BTC/LTC that is used to fund their coins, I am no longer "money transmitting". I'm basically selling coins with holograms and some laser etching done on them for BTC and LTC. Of course I am required to report my income and pay my taxes which I have already done for the 2013 year.  

To answer your question I never got a real answer from them. In fact the money services business registration was very convoluted and not straight forward (at least for me).

It would be helpful if the IRS and FinCEN got on the same page. Currently one considers BTC/LTC as "money" and the other considers it "property".

And thanks I am glad to be back.

Aloha!

Why is it just over $40 for domestic shipping on a small order of two coins?

Awesome Smoothie!

It will be interesting to see if the self-fundend coins will achieve a high premium price (over time).
The "old" funded coins on has a high pretty high premium price right now on the 2nd market.
 

I'd join the group buy for some physical LTC

EDIT: European group buy.

Sign me up.  I'm in the U.S.

The thought of coins that require recipients to check the value on-line, is a bit unappealing to me.

Would you consider user-funded coins that ship after the user funds them?  
Something like:
1) Order sent to you, with payment for the physical coin.
2) You send customer the coin address to load.
3) Customer loads the coin, and you ship, with certificate, after confirming the coin is loaded.

This would require a bit more tracking on your part, and increases risk of lost mail(need for insurance).  For me; knowing every coin in the wild had at least the face value loaded, would be worth a bit of extra cost up front to cover your time, insurance, etc.

Each coin from now on will be marked with an epilog laser "BUYER FUNDED" on the hologram.

All of my previous coins and all other physical coins would require you to check the balance despite being funded. This would be a good idea despite knowing I fund all of my previous coins.

All orders are being shipped via USPS registered mail, both domestic and international. I've had much success sending orders this way as none have gone missing.

The shipping cost is set so that no matter how many coins you order the shipping is the same price.

I can add options to the website for bulk orders of 20 coins of a particular type to my website LEALANA.COM. I'll likely set this up later on today. Group buys are welcome.