Four coins of the apocalypse

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Potential Coin Club release for later in the year...

The coin design and manufacturing process can take several months and it's rare that I get show any designs before they make it to the shelves. Coin Club Australia, the client for this project, has allowed me to show the concepts for a potential set of coins to mark the much-hyped date of 21/12/2012. I don't believe the conclusion of the Mayan calendar will cause anything cataclysmic but I still enjoyed working on these concepts and I'm pretty happy with the layout, even if the subject is well, a bit depressing. The project is still under development and there are some other completely different concepts in the works.

Below are a few of the very early, very rough concepts I worked on while the direction of the project still needed some exploration. I personally love the idea of doing the four horsemen but I'm not sure if it would appeal to a wider audience or might be a bit too biblical for peoples tastes.
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Full details on the blog of Elise Martinson - http://www.elisemartinson.com/illustration/four-coins-of-the-apocalypse/

Four horsemen looks kinda cool! who knows if any of these will hit the shelves later in the year or if coin club already pulled the pin...

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Source:www.elisemartinson.com

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Source: www.elisemartinson.com
 
kool the for horsemen seem the way its heading after all they are in the book plus i get to die on the day i was born so the cycle would be complete so i will have no real need of the coins though LOL.
 
Clearly the 4 horsemen would be the best theme as Revelations refers to the 4 horsemen of the apocalypse. The other possible designs dont have anything to do with the Bible.
 
no prob not i will not have them for long the fire will be hot and melt them man imagine if it really is the end on that date you just never know hey
 
am i allowed to change my mind ? the 4 horsemen is a great theme for the coin but am starting to lean towards the top ones i think the black-whites = grey and the orange all go together well and do give the feel of the end, guess the artist liked them too?
 
The third designs a winner for me, not sure why they would try to do a cross over from the Myan calander to a referance to Revelations, two completley different mythical predictions of the worlds end. ;)
 
I like the 4 horsemen, and I hope also in a low mintage even if I think that PM will issue the usual 5000 pcs.

Alex
 
Unfortunate news from Elise

June 18, 2012 at 11:58 pm

"I'm sorry for my lack of updates on these coins. Unfortunately despite the encouraging feedback the project has been cancelled. There are a number of good projects in production and it was decided that this one would have to be put aside in order to make way for the others.

I just realised I previously said we were definitely going ahead with something, at that stage it was very certain it would be a 2012 coin/set/series of some kind. A project is still going ahead in its place but it won't be these coins.

A few people might be disappointed but I hope that the other projects will make up for it"
 
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