Huxley Dollar
Coin recipe
What is a coin recipe? 🪙
A coin recipe is the metal mix and specs a mint needs to strike a coin: metal, size, thickness, finish, and where the QR points.
We weigh real coins when they arrive and post what we find here. Each coin's QR opens huxleydollar.com, and this page is where the details live.
Free to copy, free to make
Any mint or maker may use the Huxley designs and recipes (shared under CC BY-SA 4.0, credit "Huxley Dollar / Garden Love"). The art and laser files are in the open mint kit.
Below, anything we don't know yet says to be confirmed by the mint, so you can see exactly what's settled and what isn't.
Huxley Seal coins, two looks
A silver-look seal and a pink glitter seal, made by a pin and coin maker. Final proofs are still being updated, so nothing here is final.
- Quantity
- 100 silver-look + 100 pink glitter (200 coins).
- Size
- 2 in (50 mm), from the maker's proof sheets.
- Base metal
- The maker says its coins are made in iron or zinc alloy. Which one this run uses: to be confirmed by the mint.
- Finish: silver look
- Shiny silver plating, with UV-printed artwork.
- Finish: pink glitter
- Shiny copper plating (a copper-colored coating, not solid copper), pink soft enamel, UV-printed artwork and a glitter layer.
- Thickness
- to be confirmed by the mint.
- QR
- UV-printed on the back, and it points to huxleydollar.com. We scanned both proofs to check.
- Measured weight & metal
- not yet measuredWe will post the weight in grams and ounces, how many coins we weighed, the date, and the metal as stated by the mint vs. as tested.
Struck variety pack
Struck (stamped) coins in four finishes, 25 of each. The quote and proofs are still being finalized, and the maker will make a sample coin and test the QR scan before the full run.
- Quantity
- 100 struck coins: 25 in each finish.
- Size
- 2 in (50 mm).
- Base metal
- Brass, per the maker's quote. (Brass is a copper-zinc alloy, not solid copper.)
- Finishes
- Shiny brass / gold-tone, antique silver, bright silver and black nickel. This is the list we asked for; the maker is confirming it.
- Thickness
- to be confirmed by the mint.
- QR
- UV-printed on the back, and it points to huxleydollar.com. All four finishes use the same QR.
- Measured weight & metal
- not yet measuredWe will post the weight in grams and ounces, how many coins we weighed, the date, and the metal as stated by the mint vs. as tested.
True copper coin
A quote we are keeping as a goal, not an order. Nothing has been ordered, and there is no date yet.
- Size
- 2 in (50 mm) across and 0.125 in (about 3.2 mm) thick.
- Metal
- Solid copper, as quoted.
- Finish
- Standard antique, no added color.
- Front and back
- The front is struck from a custom die. The back is plain, with the QR printed on it (UV print with a clear protective enamel, per the maker).
- QR
- Points to huxleydollar.com.
- Weight
- to be confirmed by the mint.
- Copper source
- to be confirmed by the mint. See the goal below.
- Measured weight & metal
- not yet measuredWe will post the weight in grams and ounces, how many coins we weighed, the date, and the metal as stated by the mint vs. as tested.
A 1 oz copper dollar
Most Huxley coins are designed with the 1 oz copper dollar in mind: a one-dollar keepsake in spirit, inspired by Lincoln's penny. That is a goal. None of the coins being made right now is a 1 oz copper coin.
Ethically mined copper is also a goal we're working toward, not something we've achieved. We're asking every supplier where their copper comes from. When we can trace a source we trust, we'll say so, plainly. 🌱
What these coins are
They're collectibles, not legal tender, but Andrew personally promises to buy back any Huxley coin for $1. 🤝 Nothing here is an investment. Some artwork reads "$1 · One Dollar": that's the name of the keepsake, not a face value.
Why the recipe lives on a page
Today the QR on our coins opens huxleydollar.com. A QR is too small to hold a whole recipe (the alloy, size and finish), so a page like this is the better home for the details. A future run's QR could open a coin's own recipe page.