Wow...this seems like fun. Wonder if you could make it portable to carry around to coin shows, bet you could "Make A Mint"...yuck yuck
I would imagine these are primarily used as wedding party favors, though it would be fun to make some up. I see a fair amount of wedding swag like this in my hotel job. In fact, our 5-star sister resort, The Cloister, has very classy, largish "gold coin" chocolates they put in the rooms, which show our company logo and a picture of one of the 1928 stained glass windows in the Spanish Lounge. I'm sure you'd have to order a fairly significant minimum number of these if you want your own, just as with the wooden nickels and all that sort of promotional stuff. I used to have my own custom wooden nickels and later, wooden dollars, and they were great, but that sort of thing is more expensive now, a decade later (like everything else).
@lordmarcovan There is a Cloister here in PA., it's just a little different. I've been there. https://ephratacloister.org/
Wow! That looks like it was a cloister in the literal sense! Also looks like some sweet metal detecting territory. There is The Cloisters (with an "s", too), in NYC.
BTDT. When visiting (former or active) monasteries in Europe, I have often seen comments on this or that object now being at that museum. So one time when I was in New York, I just "had" to see the place. (Not exactly in the "heart" of Manhattan, but a regular bus went up there.) No chocolate coins, and certainly no personalized ones, but lots of other goodies. Christian
A number of years ago, we had chocolate coins as giveaways at an Early American Coppers convention. Actual 200 year old coins were used as the models. We even had one rare variety in the bowl, and the person who cherrypicked it got a free year's membership.
I would love to see it (The Cloisters museum in NYC) one day. BUT it aggravates me to no end when our guests at the Inn at Sea Island constantly ask for directions to our nearby big sister, The Cloister, and insist upon sticking that superfluous "s" at the end. So much so that I made this cartoon for my shift report one night. End digression. Resume "chocolate coins" discussion. @halfcent1793's EAC convention anecdote was neat.
The Cloisters is worth a visit if you are in NYC, went there more than once while I lived in Brooklyn.
