03 · The Coin

Strike Your Coin

Your initials and a year, struck in gold and set into Interest, where Magnus holds one coin up to the light. It stays his coin, and it carries your mark.

Strike a coin above and the sizes appear here. The commission is the edition price plus $600, numbered outside the twenty-five, so the edition stays twenty-five.

Interest: a magpie chest deep in gold holds up one coin struck with M P and the year 1843. — A sample, Magnus’s own: M P, 1843. Strike yours to replace it.

True Size

4.53″ across

On the 40 × 60″ canvas your coin is 4.53 inches across; on the 30 × 45″ it is 3.4 inches. Below it is drawn at 40 × 60″ size beside a ruler. A screen draws an inch as 96 of its own pixels, and most screens are close, so hold a real ruler against this one to see how close yours is.