I was handing out 1 BTC physical bitcoins (metal coins with the private key under a security sticker on the back) to university economics professors in 2012. As souvenirs as conferences I was attending. Those who didn't throw them away now have a souvenir trinket worth well over $8,000 :-)
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Wow... I guess this would have been when Bitcoin was $5-10? One would like to think these people held onto them; at least tossed them in a desk drawer. I guess if they were thrown away they would now be part of the suspected "missing" Bitcoin... I remember reading an article suggested as much as four million Bitcoin may simply be gone from the supply due to one thing or another... don't know if it's true, but it would seem like occasional "shrinkage" could happen.