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PRE-CONQUEST COINS OF WESTEROSNever 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  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  Artys Arryn Star fantasy coin  Loreon I Lannister Gold Lion fantasy coin To read the complete article, see: Wayne Homren, Editor The Numismatic Bibliomania Society is a non-profit organization promoting numismatic literature. See our web site at coinbooks.org. To submit items for publication in The E-Sylum, write to the Editor at this address: whomren@gmail.com To subscribe go to: https://my.binhost.com/lists/listinfo/esylum All Rights Reserved. NBS Home Page Contact the NBS webmaster 
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