DUBLOONSDead men tell no tales.
Their coins do.
A Dubloon is a coin struck in real metal, carrying a QR mark we host forever. Scan it and it opens whatever the coin is haunted by — an album, a film, a gallery, a game. The metal never changes. What answers it can, forever.
Scan it and it opens an album.a film.a gallery.a game.a door.a confession.an album.
From the deep
The metal never learns.
What answers it can change forever.
Scan it in five years. Scan it in fifty.
A Dubloon is a real coin, struck in real metal, with a mark cut into it that we host for as long as there is a web to host it on. It does not have a battery, a subscription, or an app. It has an edge you can feel in your pocket and a promise on its face: point a phone at it and something answers. What answers is yours to decide, and to change, without ever touching the coin again.
What a coin can answer with
- An albumThe record, before it is out. Repoint to the next pressing when it lands.
- A filmA short, a trailer, the director's cut. Plays on a phone, no app.
- A galleryThe exhibition after the exhibition closes. Every piece, every caption.
- A gameA puzzle, a hunt, a door that only this coin opens.
- A plain linkYour site, your shop, your booking page. The cheap case, kept cheap.
- A confessionA joke, a message, a will. Something only the holder was meant to find.
Struck to outlast you
Real metal, struck with your artwork and a mark that still scans after decades in the dark of a pocket. A relic people keep — not a card they bin.
Cursed to obey you
The mark answers to you alone. Point it at an album today, a film next year, a confession the year after. The curse holds long after the metal cools.
Every soul counted
Every scan enters your ledger — when, where, what device dared. Watch the hoard grow from your own portal and carry the numbers off whenever you please.
The ritual
- Design. Bring your art or summon ours. We draw both faces and cut the mark so it scans in struck metal, not just on paper.
- Strike. We strike your coins and ship them to you — ready to hand out, sell, gift, or bury.
- Haunt. Behind each coin lives whatever you choose — an album, a film, a gallery, a game — hosted by us, opened with one scan.
- Repoint. New release, new omen? Turn the coin's purpose in seconds. The metal never learns, and the curse never expires.
Fresh from the strike
The first Dubloons came off the dies in September 2026, and some are already in pockets. If a coin brought you here, you are holding one. This is what they looked like the morning they landed on the bench — photographed, not rendered.
On the bench
Struck coins we have made, photographed from the same files the die sinker works from. Every mark on this page is live — point a phone at your screen and the coin will open, exactly as it does in the hand.
The Dubloon
Tarnished gold · 63.5 mm · rope edge
Our own coin, and the one we hand across the table. The mark is not stamped on top of the art — it is woven into the field, halftoned into the same metal, and it still reads at arm's length.
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Deadend Deafchild
Blackened steel · 50.8 mm · hard enamel
A record you can hold before you can hear it. Skulls in headphones, a waveform running the field, and a mark that opens the album — this pressing today, the next one when it lands.
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The Key Coin
Antique brass · 63.5 mm · engraved ring
Key-and-scroll cut into the ring, a bone-white panel seated proud of it. Struck for a vault: one coin, one holder, one door that only it opens.
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The trade
Coin striking
Short and long runs of custom struck Dubloons in a range of sizes, metals, and finishes. Priced per design and quantity.
The haunting
Your coin's destination, hosted and managed — a full experience living at your Dubloon's own mark, or a plain forward to anywhere. Repoint any time.
Chart & steel
Our designers turn your idea into coin-ready artwork and a mark that scans beautifully in metal, proven on a real phone before anything is struck.
Twenty seconds from the deep
The whole pitch, with the sound off. Made from the same paintings on this page, and the coin in it is the coin in your hand.
Questions from the deck
What happens if the thing my coin points at goes away?
The coin keeps working. Point it somewhere new from your portal in seconds, or let it rest on a holding page that still counts the scan. A minted mark never dead-ends, and that rule is written into the code, not the terms.
Can I change what it opens after the coins are struck?
Whenever you like, as often as you like. The metal carries only the mark. Everything behind it lives with us and turns on your word.
Will it still scan in ten years?
That is the whole design. The mark is cut in uppercase so it encodes in the densest, most error-tolerant form a QR code has, at a module size we refuse to go below. Every coin we strike is scanned on a real phone before the run is signed off, and the ones in circulation today are scanning from pockets, sleeves and bar tops.
How many do I need to order?
Fewer than you think for a first run, and the price per coin falls fast with quantity. Tell us what it must open and roughly how many hands it should reach, and we will come back with breaks.
What sizes and metals can you do?
Two inches is the coin you have seen on this page. Larger, smaller, brass, nickel, blackened steel, hard enamel, rope or reeded edges, both faces yours. The one thing we hold firm on is the size of the mark, because that is what decides whether it scans in metal.
Is there anything a coin can't open?
We host only what you own or hold a release for. A coin that opens someone else's film is a coin that stops working the day they complain, and every coin ever struck shares that fate. So we ask, and we mean it.
Summon the mint
Tell us what your coin must open and how many you need struck. We'll come back with options and a price.