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The E-Sylum: Volume 21, Number 40, October 7, 2018, Article 31

PRE-CONQUEST COINS OF WESTEROS

Never heard of Westeros? It's fictional, and so are these coins planned by the Shire Post Mint, a maker of fantasy coins with tie-ins to books. Here's their Kickstarter campaign collecting preorders for the series. -Editor

Pre-conquest coins of Westeros set

The coin makers of Shire Post Mint bring you solid metal coins from the thousands of years of history before the Targaryen dynasty in Westeros. With this new series of coins, we are also releasing Coin Maps of Westeros with multiple options, including an extremely limited edition of 50 wood and glowing resin maps signed by the legendary author George R. R. Martin himself.

We are Shire Post Mint. We are a family-run business based in the Ozarks of Arkansas, USA founded in 2003. We make all of our coins in our workshop. We specialize in creating officially licensed solid metal coins from literary series like A Game of Thrones™, The Lord of the Rings™, Mistborn Coins™, The Wheel of Time™, The Kingkiller Chronicle™, The Demon Cycle™, Conan® the Barbarian, and John Carter of Mars™.

We have been working with George R.R. Martin since 2003 to create authentic coins from Westeros and Essos. To date, we have crafted over 40 unique coins from A Song of Ice and Fire.

These coins will be made in solid metals like bronze, copper, iron, nickel, and brass. The designs are hand-engraved in steel and stamped using antique machinery.

The designers have done their homework - the styles are resonant of actual coins. But we in the numismatic community should catalog these somewhere, somehow so that when they start appearing in the secondary market their origin is clear. Here are a few example designs. -Editor

Kings of Salt and Rock fantasy coin
Kings of Salt and Rock fantasy coin

Artys Arryn Star fantasy coin
Artys Arryn Star fantasy coin

Loreon I Lannister Gold Lion fantasy coin
Loreon I Lannister Gold Lion fantasy coin

To read the complete article, see:
Pre-Conquest Coins of Westeros (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/shirepostmint/pre-conquest-coins-of-westeros)



Wayne Homren, Editor

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