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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Tom Maringer, post: 2111244, member: 7033&quot;]So... you know about <a href="http://www.shirepost.com" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.shirepost.com" rel="nofollow">Shire Post Mint</a>... right?</p><p>Shire Post licensed with George R.R. Martin 12 years ago, to make coinage from A Song of Ice and Fire, (better known by the title of the first book in the series A GAME OF THRONES. They use old equipment and techniques to create coins for the series that look and feel real. Copper, silver, iron, bronze, and even gold. There is a new <a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1717678842/a-game-of-thrones-fantasy-gaming-coins-by-shire-po" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1717678842/a-game-of-thrones-fantasy-gaming-coins-by-shire-po" rel="nofollow">Kickstarter </a>online right now featuring a series of new stuff!</p><p><br /></p><p>The earlier coins of the series are listed in Unusual World Coins, and searchable through the <a href="http://www.ngccoin.com/price-guide/world/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.ngccoin.com/price-guide/world/" rel="nofollow">NGC Coin Price Guide</a> (search criteria country= Westeros) though there are now almost forty different ones. Many early issues are completely sold out and hard to find. Mintages are <a href="http://asoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/topic/66827-game-of-thrones-coins/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://asoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/topic/66827-game-of-thrones-coins/" rel="nofollow">listed</a>, most are in the hundreds or low thousands. Copper pennies and groats and stars, silver stags and moons, brass half-pennies, gold dragons and half-dragons.</p><p><br /></p><p>Ron Landis at Gallery Mint museum (just up the road) has been helping with some of the engraving. Others have been done by Woody Maringer, or Joe Paonessa. These are all hand-cut dies. There are pics and videos of die-sinking on <a href="https://instagram.com/shirepostmint/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://instagram.com/shirepostmint/" rel="nofollow">instagram</a>. This is just about as real as it gets... coins that have fallen through an interdimensional portal![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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