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.
Vol. I · Est. 2026 · New tales at every tide
The Gulf Almanac
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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.
✦ The Mint's Creed ✦
We don't make bullion.
We don't make bullion.
We mint legends.
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.
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Struck for the Story
One ounce of .999 fine silver, original designs in Tide-Raised Relief™ and Gulf-Deep Relief™ with a Tideglass Finish™. Not bullion — legend.
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One Number. Your Legend.
Every coin has its own engraved edge number, matched to its certificate and Official Registry record. Use the Authentication ID to look up that record and compare the details.
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Rare by Design
A First Tide Release of 150 per design; never more than 500, ever. When the tide goes out, it stays out.
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The Sea's Share
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.
Built by a father and a son.
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 didn’t start from nothing. Behind the Mint stands Certified Rare Coin Auctions LLC, established in 2002 and celebrating its 25th year — a quarter century of authenticating and selling rare coins. Every Florida Man Mint coin is held to that standard.
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™