I Made A Medal For My Coin Club

Thanks Daniel,

You seem to be as kind as you are skilled; answered all the questions.
But in a place like this, you will receive a lot of questions :)

Hi daniel

Welcome to the forum !! I appreciate your talent !!

Its a beautiful medal !! that Iam sure each and every Member of the coin club will be proud to own !

Rick

Daniel:

Welcome to a fellow Coloradoan.

I loved your design for the Nevada quarter, and wish it had been accepted, even though the design chosen is nice.

You do wonderful work!

Daniel mentions Fort Collins as his home. Although I prefer the Western Slope, Fort Collins is a beautiful city, located in a very pretty area.

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Originally posted by OldDan

Daniel, I am about to ask a question that may not even be possible for you to answer at this time. What I'm interested in is the possibility of someone (me) traveling down to Fort Collins and being able to visit your studios and if lucky see you at your work designing medals. Also interested in knowing if you have a open sales area at your location where one of my relatives who happens to live in Greeley might stop in and pick up one or more of your designs in medals?
Thanks for the time to reply.
Always your Wyoming friend.

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OldDan,

I'm flattered that you would be interested in coming to pay a visit. My current studio/shop is set up in my house/garage. It isn't very conducive to having visitors. I am working towards getting a true commercial space somewhere, where I could have my studio/shop and my yet-to-be-acquired press. At that time I will be able to have visitors. I don't know when that will be, but it depends on finances, as usual.

For now, I have a "shopping cart" web site as my "sales area". I don't have the Fort Collins medals listed yet, but I'll make an announcement when I do.

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Originally posted by djluster

do you ever take request for a design, The club I belong to is about to have there 50th anv. next year. the clubs is in idaho and the idaho quater comes out and I was not sure if you do designs for other clubs. We are looking at giving something neat at our show the club puts on. I think this might be something that would be great.

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Yes, I would consider doing that type of work. The Fort Collins medals will have their local debut at the club's show on March 25.

So it sounds like your Idaho club would be making a medal for all the same reasons that the Fort Collins club did.

To give you an idea, to sculpt a design similar in detail and complexity to the one shown in this thread, along with the costs for carving 3D models and dies, would be roughly $1,500 total. And for a 39mm piece, it would be roughly $2-$3 per struck medal (plus the cost of any silver used). So, in other words, if you had, say, a $6 mark-up on each medal sold ($8.50 for brass and $18.50 for 1-ounce silver, for example), then you would break even if you sold 250 medals.

One thing to consider is that the quality of the design and workmanship will have a direct impact on how well the medals would sell. I think in most cases, people fail to grasp the full significance of that fact.

FAntastic, Beautiful is not the right word- Athestic appeal is overwhelming- Too bad the mint doesn't have talent such as yours.
Dewey

Lovely desing, youll definitely be a great help to us here!