3LC Memento Coin

  Remember you must die. Remember you must live.

  This is a heavy(ish), solid brass everyday carry coin made to be felt, carried, and worn in.

  Centered on both faces is a skull - the timeless reminder of our mortality. Surrounding it are Roman numerals from a clock face, but intentionally, there are no hands. We never know the minute or hour that will be our last.

  One face reads MEMENTO MORI. The other, MEMENTO VIVERE.

  For Marcus Aurelius, the Stoic Emperor of Rome, Memento Mori was not a morbid obsession. It was discipline. In his private journal, Meditations, he constantly reminded himself that he could die at any moment. Not to create fear, but to kill it. To strip away ego, vanity, and petty anger. To force himself to focus on what he could control: his character, his duty, his actions in the present moment. Remembering death was his tool for living virtuously.

  Today we need it more than ever. We live like we have forever, so we put off the important things. And we live so anxiously about tomorrow, we forget to be alive today.

  This coin is the counterweight.

  Flip to Mori when you need perspective. Will this worry, this insult, this fear matter at the end?
  Flip to Vivere when you need a push. Are you just passing time, or are you actually living?

  No paint. No plating. Solid brass with a deep engraved, antique relief that will patina and darken with your carry. Made to look better in 10 years than it does today.

  Carry it. Use it. Gift it.

  These coins are made to order. Once an order is placed, your coin will be engraved, hand finished, oiled, and then shipped to you.

• Design detail: Clock face has NO hands. The hour is unknown.
• Daily reminder. Daily driver
• Solid brass
• Hand finished
• 100% made in USA