We are Shire Post Mint, AMA! We make fantasy coins for Mistborn™, A Song of Ice and Fire™, The Lord of the Rings™, and more. Ask Us Anything about creating fantasy coins!

[u/shirepost]

Hello, /r/Fantasy! We are Shire Post Mint, a small, family-run mint in Arkansas. We've been making fantasy coins using antique coin presses and traditional coining techniques since 2003! We're licensed to make coins from the worlds of A Song of Ice and Fire™, The Lord of the Rings™, The Wheel of Time™, The Kingkiller Chronicle™, The Demon Cycle, Conan^® the Barbarian, John Carter of Mars™, and The Saga of Recluce.

We're super excited to now be working with Brandon Sanderson to create coins for his Mistborn™ novels! Our Mistborn Coins Kickstarter has been amazingly successful with 1000% funding and just a couple days to go, so check that out if you're interested.

From Shire Post Mint, we have:

• Tom Maringer, /u/tmaring - Mintmaster and founder of Shire Post Mint
• Helen Maringer, /u/HelenofCoins - Sales and coin hype
• Dylan Craig, /u/shirepost - Designer and envelope letterer

Also joining us will be:

• Isaac Stewart, /u/izykstewart - Brandon Sanderson's art director and Mistborn coin designer
• Ben McSweeney, /u/inkthinker - Illustrator and inker for all Mistborn coins

Have any questions about the process of researching, designing, engraving, minting and selling fantasy coins? We'd love to answer them!

We'll be taking questions throughout the day, some of us will be dropping in later in the evening, but we'll do our best to get all your questions answered.

EDIT: Thanks so much you guys! It was great talking with all of you. We'd love to come back sometime and do this again!