Every coin tells a story.
Bold, colourful plaques, each drawn around one real coin — and the coin comes with it, sealed in its capsule and set in the ring.
One plaque.
One real coin.
From Napoleon III’s eagle to the Falklands’ fox, Periclean Greece to Kailash. Every plaque is drawn for one coin, and says on its face what that coin is.

The Heraldic Florin
Elizabeth IITwo shillings · florin · 1967

The Deco Threepence
BritainThree pence · 1944

L’Aigle Impérial
Empire FrançaisDix centimes · 1854

Brandenburger Tor
DDR · Berlin5 Mark · 1971

The Oak Seedling
Bundesrepublik Deutschland2 Pfennig · 1964 · F

Alexander the Great
Greece100 drachmes · 1992

Pericles
Greece20 drachmes · 1982

Democritus
Greece10 drachmai · 1976

Homer’s Voyage
Greece50 drachmes · 1988

Aristotle
Greece5 drachmes · 1982

Kailash
IndiaOne rupee

Minerva
Italia100 lire · 1955–1989

The White Eagle
Rzeczpospolita Polska100 złotych · 1990

Six Torches · 10 Dinara
Jugoslavija10 dinara · 1988

Six Torches · 1 Dinar
Jugoslavija1 dinar · 1965

The Warrah
Falkland Islands50 pence · 1998
How they’re made
Made in small batches in our own studio, from plant-based material, with old coins given a new place to shine.
A coin with a past
Every plaque starts with a real coin that has already had a life. We give it a second one — nothing newly minted, no new metal.
Drawn for it
The artwork is drawn around that one coin — its country, its value, its date — in bold, simple shapes made to last.
Plant-based colour
Made from a plant-based material rather than oil-based plastic, in bold colours set flush into the face. No paint, no varnish.
Nothing glued
The coin sits in a capsule that presses into the ring. No glue, nothing touches the coin, and it can always come back out.
About
Coin-pedia: the story on every coin.
Every coin is a page of history — an eagle, a goddess, a fox, a flame. Coin-pedia draws that page out big and bright, in the colours a coin never had.
We are a small studio making art plaques around real coins. Each one is designed for its coin, made in-house, and sold with the coin it was drawn for.

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