What a cluster this whole thing is. Truth be told, I was interested in these coins, but if a crappy design ends up winning because they farmed the most votes, there's no way in good conscience I could buy one.
And obviously people still don't understand that campycoin's design is not a coin, it's a bar of gold bullion!
Then also my vote would have gone to campycoin for making something totally different and having the guts to design a non round coin.
One of the huge problems here is that we have people designing coins who have no idea how actual coins are manufactured. Extremely minute details impossible to cut into a working die, utilizing white gold (which is an alloy and cannot possibly be .9999 fine gold), and painting a solid gold coin black show that these people do not understand what they are doing when it comes to coin design. These are graphic designers, not coin designers, and that's why the final coin is going to suffer, because it's not designed properly.
The bullion gold bar idea is exquisite and would be the first of it's kind. This is the kind of thing that coinographic should be seriously considering. Right now the most exquisite physical BTC coins are minted by alitin mint, and a two ounce solid gold bullion bar would be a serious contender to those coins.
Coinographic needs to very seriously consider whether or not it's worth keeping this charade alive, because it's his money going into producing and funding these coins. 100 of these coins is 200 ounces of gold and 500 BTC, plus production costs. This project will cost well over half a million dollars and IMO this is too much capital to risk putting into a sub-standard design whose winner won by farming votes.
