How it works

From a photograph to something you can hold.

Five steps, and you only do two of them: choose where to start, and send us a picture.

  1. A linen display frame with its first coin, arriving in a box lined with tissue paper.

    Choose where to start

    A single coin, the Collector's package or Legacy. With the two collections you pay once and choose your coins over time.

  2. A printed wedding photograph lying beside the coin engraved from it.

    Send a photograph

    Pick the picture you keep going back to, and tell us the few words you would like with it: a date, a name, a place.

  3. A close view across the engraved face of a coin.

    See it before it is made

    We prepare the design and send you a preview. Nothing is engraved until you are happy with it.

  4. Plain solid brass discs on a wooden workbench, before engraving.

    We engrave it in brass

    Each coin starts as a solid brass disc. Your picture is engraved into it, then the coin is darkened and polished by hand.

  5. A hand placing a new coin into a linen display frame beside others.

    It arrives, and you add the next

    Your coin is posted to you. When the next moment comes, send another photograph and the collection grows.

Choosing your moments

Holidays, milestones and the days nobody planned.

From our holiday list

Pick the days your family actually celebrates.

  • New Year's
  • Valentine's Day
  • Easter
  • Mother's Day
  • Father's Day
  • Fourth of July
  • Halloween
  • Thanksgiving
  • Hanukkah
  • Christmas
  • A birthday
  • An anniversary

Special events

The ones that only happen once.

  • Engagement
  • Wedding
  • New baby
  • Graduation
  • First home
  • Retirement
  • A trip or a place
  • A pet
  • In remembrance

One of a kind

A day that fits no list. If you have a photograph and a reason, that is enough.

A coin is made from the photograph of the day itself, so it follows the moment: this Christmas becomes a coin in the new year.

A photograph of a grandfather and grandson fishing from a dock.

Choosing a photograph

What makes a good coin.

  • A clear subject that fills most of the picture
  • Faces you can see: close is better than far away
  • Good light, without heavy shadow across faces
  • One or two people, a pet, a building or a place all work well
  • Phone photographs are fine

Not sure about yours? Send it anyway. If we think another picture would make a better coin, we will say so before anything is made.

Opening soon

Start your collection.

Memorium is opening soon. Reserve your place and we will write to you first.