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.
Real Florida, slightly mythologized — dispatches, legends, and field notes from the strangest coastline in America. Every entry rates its own truth, because the Gulf deserves honesty about its dishonesty.
Twelve original designs in the First Tide series — each one a chapter, each one struck for the story. One ounce of .999 fine silver, sculpted in deep relief with a proof-like finish and dropped right back where the legend started. We don't melt history into metal. We mint it into legend.
One ounce of .999 fine silver, original designs in Tide-Raised Relief™ and Gulf-Deep Relief™ with a Tideglass Finish™. Not bullion — legend.
Every coin is edge-numbered and entered in the Official Registry — verifiable for life by its Authentication ID. No certificate to lose. No fake that holds up.
A First Tide Release of 150 per design; never more than 500, ever. When the tide goes out, it stays out.
2% of net proceeds from every coin sold supports Mote Marine Laboratory — the Gulf that made the legends, protected together.
Real silver. Real provenance. Real Florida. Forged in the deep, minted from sunshine, built to be passed down.
Florida Man Mint was founded by Shane & Caiden Jennings — a father and son raised by saltwater, storms, and the kind of Florida stories that usually disappear with the tide.
Our roots started on the Atlantic, where the ocean teaches you respect early. For the last fifteen years, we’ve lived on the Gulf, chasing sunsets, tide lines, old wreck stories, and the wild edge of Florida that still refuses to be civilized.
Somewhere between the two coasts, one story became bigger than a story.
It needed a coin.
So we built Florida Man Mint around it — a private mint dedicated to striking Florida’s myths, mayhem, treasure, and forgotten legends in real silver. Every release is numbered, registered, and made to feel like something pulled from the surf, not printed from a catalog.
We believe coins should carry more than metal. They should carry place, family, risk, humor, history, and a little saltwater truth.
A share of every sale goes back to the water that gave us all of it — because the sea is not just part of our story. It is the reason this exists.
“Every coin we strike carries a little bit of where we come from — saltwater, family, risk, humor, and the belief that legends are still alive if someone has the nerve to mint them.”— Shane Jennings, Founder
No. 000 — the Founder Coin — is never sold. It stays with the family that set the legends adrift.
— Shane & Caiden Jennings · Florida Man Founders, Florida Man Mint™
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.