The Founding Suite
No. __Your numbered black metal Member card, and your name sworn onto the printed Charter of the First Tide — signed, sealed, unmistakably yours.
Minted from sunshine. Built on good times. Treasure the legends — collect the sunshine.
Moonlit myth. Mayhem. Treasure. For those who collect the wild and the wicked.
One press. Two worlds. Every legend gets its silver.
It started, they say, the morning a Florida Man walked out of a hurricane with a coin nobody remembered minting — sunrise on one face, the storm-dark deep on the other. So we built a mint around it. We strike the legends history was too nervous to print: the sand and the sea, the saints and the sinners, the true mark and the false. Flip it however it falls. Both sides are silver. Both sides are real.
Choose your side. The Gulf will know.
Legendary Stories. One Ounce. Pure Adventure.
Where the sun hits the water, the stories start. Pure silver for the good days you'll swear got bigger in the telling — with the proof to back it up.
First Tide Release of 150 per design · 1 oz .999 fine silver · Ships free, insured
Iconic Designs. One Ounce. Pure Treasure.
Treasure the deep never meant to give back. One ounce of .999 silver, edge-numbered into the ledger and guarded like the wreck that made it.
First Tide Release of 150 per design · 1 oz .999 fine silver · Ships free, insured
Before there is silver, there is wax. The first master for the Spear of the Gulf was cut by hand out of a solid block — no machine, no shortcut — one stroke at a time until Florida Man surfaced out of it. Every coin of this legend we ever strike begins in this one object.
The dies will be cut from this.
Steel next. Then silver.
Every coin is one ounce of .999 fine silver, struck in our proof-like Tideglass Finish™. Real treasure — never a token.
Your serial is struck on the coin’s edge, matched to your Certificate, and logged in our live Registry — verifiable forever.
Twelve trials, twelve coins — each a chapter of a story Florida’s been telling all along. The First Tide is only the beginning.
Two percent of every coin and book sale goes to marine research and conservation on Florida’s Gulf coast.
Sand & Sea Pairs · 6 Releases · 12 Legends
First Tide Release · Only 150 · High‑Water Mark 500
The Ledger remembers who claims the full First Tide.
This isn’t just a collection. It’s a movement.
Welcome to Florida Man Mint.
The inner circle of the First Tide.
The High Tide raises the worthy — and the Society is her inner circle. Four to six times a year she surfaces a new member-exclusive strike, and members get the first claim, the lowest serial numbers, and the lore. It isn't a mailing list — it's a charter, sworn under the lantern. The Founding roll is open, and every name on it is a founder.
Here is what a Founding Member claims:
A priority window to purchase every member-only release — four to six a year, strictly limited.
Priority claim on serials 1–10 of every strike — the numbers collectors fight over.
Member-exclusive strikes. When they're gone, they're legend.
Stories, drop intel, and mayhem reports from both sides of the Gulf.
The private early window. Every new release opens to the Society before the public tide comes in.
Your numbered black metal Member card, and your name sworn onto the printed Charter of the First Tide — signed, sealed, unmistakably yours.
And membership arrives the way a privilege should — your numbered black metal Member card, and your name on the sworn Charter of the First Tide.
Join the High Tide SocietyFounding Member · sworn under the lantern.
Florida Man Mint™ is a proud Harbor Partner with Mote Marine Laboratory, a world-renowned, independent nonprofit advancing marine science and conservation. 2% of net proceeds from every coin sold supports Mote's mission — helping scientists, educators and innovators work toward a healthier, more sustainable ocean.
Net proceeds means a coin's purchase price less applicable taxes, shipping, and payment-processing fees. Contributions are unrestricted, helping Mote Marine Laboratory & Aquarium advance its overall mission.
Read the Sea’s Share pledge →First word on new drops, lore letters from the bright side, and member-only treasure. No spam — just signal.
Drop signals at moonrise, dispatches from the Sea, and first claim on exclusive mintings. The tide tells the Crew first.
Most of what we strike reaches the shelf. The best of it never does. The High Tide Society is the inner circle of Florida Man Mint — the collectors the tide finds first, four to six times a year, every year.
Here is how it works on our side of the water. Four to six times a year the Mint strikes a coin that will never be sold to the public. Not late, not re-released, not “back by popular demand.” Four hundred and fifty pieces, struck once, offered only to members, and then the die retires to the bottom of a very deep drawer. Miss a tide and that legend belongs to somebody else forever.
Membership is one seat, one price, no fine print with teeth. You get first claim on every member strike, the lowest numbers we mint, and a letter we actually enjoy writing. It is a privilege sworn under the lantern — and the Founding roll is open.
No. __Your numbered black metal Member card, and your name sworn onto the printed Charter of the First Tide — signed, sealed, unmistakably yours.
No. 1–10Priority access to the first ten serials of every strike — the elusive low numbers collectors chase hardest and hold longest.
4–6 / yearFour to six coins a year minted exclusively for High Tide members. Never on the public shelf — when the tide goes out, they’re gone.
A members-only dispatch of brand-new Florida Man tales and myths, drop intel, and mint news — the stories surface here before anywhere else. The Gulf remembers its first ten — and everyone who reads closely.
A unique, printable Florida Man Mint postcard — a tale on one side, your words on the other, and your personal crew code printed on every card. Mail it to a future legend: they claim with your code, you both win, and the Ledger writes the chapter.
First at the waterEvery new release opens to the Society in a private window before the public tide. No scrambling, no rigged scarcity — the early water is simply yours.
A new tale and image surface every week. One card, true postcard size — 6 × 4 inches. Print it, add a stamp in the corner, write your legend, and mail it.
Print it, stamp it. Your crew code rides along on every card.
Mail it to a future legend — the analog kind of viral.
They claim with your code: you both win, and the Ledger writes the chapter.
✦ Your digital crew-code postcard is on its way — share it with a future legend and earn your way toward the High Tide Society. ✦
Legends this good deserve silver.