Memento Mori/Vivere Challenge Coin w/Nitro Green Opal inlay

*This is hands down the MOST BEAUTIFUL coin I have ever done! I'll get into the details, but first, THE WHY behind this design...

    Remember you must die. Remember you must live.

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

  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 an extremely deep engraved, antique relief that has been inlayed by hand with a crushed Nitro Green Opal (lab grown). While the colors of this Opal have a huge base of Green, you will get many other visual notes when looking at it, especially in different lighting! This Coin has been ground through multiple stages, beginning at 80 grit, and working into the thousands... all before polishing with various compounds to bring out a lustrous shine and vividness.

  Carry it. Use it. Pass it on through the generations...

*NOTE TO WINNER: DO NOT PAY THE AUTOMATED INVOICE FROM THE SITE/SHOPIFY. I WILL SEND A SEPARATE INVOICE FROM QUICKBOOKS. THIS WILL SAVE YOU MONEY IN THE END.

• Special/Limited Memento Mori/Vivere Coin
• Made from solid brass
• Nitro Green Opal inlay
• Daily reminder and/or motivator
• Hand finished