I Made A Medal For My Coin Club

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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!