This Memento Mori gothic collectible coin features two contrasting skull designs united by a single philosophy. The front face depicts a decayed, zombie-like skull — hollow-eyed, bearded, and horned — rising from a billowing shroud with an hourglass at its centre, encircled by the Latin inscription Memento Vivere (Remember to Live). The reverse shows a clean skeletal skull set within a bone-framed Roman numeral clock face, bearing the inscription Memento Mori (Remember to Die) and the warning Your Time Will Come.
Available in gold-tone and silver-tone finishes, each coin features a deep black enamel field with a red accent rim. This piece is a Gothic memento mori collectible coin designed for display and collection.
About the Design
The front skull is deliberately rendered in a decayed, undead style — a wraith-like figure with remnants of a beard, curved horns, and hollow eye sockets, emerging from a flowing cloak with an hourglass rising from its chest. This is the face of time itself: not clean death, but the slow, inevitable decay that reminds us life is finite. The sun and crescent moon flanking the inscription mark the passage of day into night — every hour counted.
The reverse offers the philosophical counterpoint: a stark, skeletal skull centred within a clock of twelve bone-jointed segments, each marked with Roman numerals. Memento Mori — "Remember that you will die" — is one of the oldest Stoic traditions in Western thought. Together, both sides form a complete meditation: acknowledge mortality, and use that awareness to live fully.
Product Features
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Design: Dual-sided — Memento Vivere zombie skull & hourglass / Memento Mori skeletal clock
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Material: Iron with enamel fill
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Diameter: 40mm (1.57")
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Thickness: 3mm (0.12")
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Weight: Approx. 1 oz
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Finish: Gold-tone or Silver-tone with black enamel and red accent rim
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Packaging: Plastic display case and OPP bag
- This is a commemorative collectible and not legal tender
Perfect For
- Gothic and dark art collectors
- Stoicism and memento mori enthusiasts
- Desk display, shadow box, and shelf collections
- Unique gift for philosophy, history, or horror lovers
- Themed coin and challenge coin collections
Shipping
Free worldwide tracked shipping / Estimated delivery: 9–14 days / Each coin is securely packaged for safe arrival.
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This item is a commemorative collectible and is not legal tender, not issued by a government mint, and not an investment product. It is intended for hobby collecting and display purposes only.
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