Anyone know anything about the John Wick Gold Coins?

Taking a closer look at the coin, and yes i did find the exact coin they use in the movie, what is inscribed on there is actually ancient latin. The side of the coin that is facing upwards when John Wick checks into the hotel says "Ex Unitae Vires" which means "union is strength". The other side says "Ens Causa Sui" and XXI which translates to "cause of itself" and 21. I have already come to my own conclusion about what that means in relation to the movie and also thinking outside the box as to what truer meaning it may hold...please feel free to dispute my findings...im open to whatever anyone has to say
 
we already knew all that....you should read this thread from page one! lol
and it's not "xxi" it's "MMI".
but i would like to know what you mean by: "and yes i did find the exact coin they use in the movie" please inform us on this.
do you have an actual coin or did you just see the same pictures we all have?

and welcome to the site!



achessell said:
Taking a closer look at the coin, and yes i did find the exact coin they use in the movie, what is inscribed on there is actually ancient latin. The side of the coin that is facing upwards when John Wick checks into the hotel says "Ex Unitae Vires" which means "union is strength". The other side says "Ens Causa Sui" and XXI which translates to "cause of itself" and 21. I have already come to my own conclusion about what that means in relation to the movie and also thinking outside the box as to what truer meaning it may hold...please feel free to dispute my findings...im open to whatever anyone has to say 
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The other side says ex unitare vires meaning union is strength. I have found the image of both faces of the coin used and have worked it out in relation to the movie.

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My apologies...only just saw that for some reason the page had gone to page 6 and not page one. I do apologise.

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And yes...sorry, not xxi, i meant to say mmi...
 
I had a bit time this evening.
Here is my take on it:

wick01.pngwick02.png

I made every material on shapeways available, inkluding the cheap plastik ones. ^^
https://www.shapeways.com/product/8TNB8KDBA/john-wick-gold-coin
 
Johnny come lately admits, he sped read the thread, and feels compelled to ask if anyone has looked for a copy of the printout held by the prop guy showing front back and angled views of the coin in the BD featured?

Unless Lionsgate is preparing a full franchise world out of the Continental subculture, it is doubtful the copies of that have not been locked in a church basement.
I would be happy with a Mardi Gras doubloon or even wooden nickle.

If I overlooked this in the 5 pages previous, blame sugar.
 
Ke7in12 said:
Johnny come lately admits, he sped read the thread, and feels compelled to ask if anyone has looked for a copy of the printout held by the prop guy showing front back and angled views of the coin in the BD featured?

Unless Lionsgate is preparing a full franchise world out of the Continental subculture, it is doubtful the copies of that have not been locked in a church basement.
I would be happy with a Mardi Gras doubloon or even wooden nickle.

If I overlooked this in the 5 pages previous, blame sugar.
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It should be around 3:28 http://youtu.be/6QqmEo2QoXA (pleasenote, I posted this url before youtube said it was done processing.
 
To be clear, I see the thread indeed started with an exclusive video of the Assisn's Code, but I have an HD copy of that vid for this discussion on Youtube. It is set up to be unlisted, but accessible with the above URL. I took a screen shot of the paper in question, and changed its perspective to be verticle as I was capable. Certainly someone that wishes to, may be able to extract the frame from the mp4 I have, and do something similar. But my original intent was, has anyone written to the producers for "fan art" that page is most likely some vector graphic that is floating around somewhere, if not a hard copy. Unless they plan on marketing their own gold coins as tie ins, I am not sure why they would not details like out in fandom. I am ready for a pair of cufflinks
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yeah i've written to just about any one who worked on the movie and all i could come up with is that low res pic of both side of the coin on page 2 of this tread.
i've asked multiple people for high res images and most have said..."yeah let me see what i can dig up" and then they flake out and don't write back again or they are being told not to give it out. and yes i have followed up many times to remind them we are still waiting on good pics. so far all we can do is work with what we got.


Ke7in12 said:
To be clear, I see the thread indeed started with an exclusive video of the Assisn's Code, but I have an HD copy of that vid for this discussion on Youtube. It is set up to be unlisted, but accessible with the above URL. I took a screen shot of the paper in question, and changed its perspective to be verticle as I was capable. Certainly someone that wishes to, may be able to extract the frame from the mp4 I have, and do something similar. But my original intent was, has anyone written to the producers for "fan art" that page is most likely some vector graphic that is floating around somewhere, if not a hard copy. Unless they plan on marketing their own gold coins as tie ins, I am not sure why they would not details like out in fandom. I am ready for a pair of cufflinks
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I have a question. Will the coin will be like an american coin? So when you want to see the other face, you need to flip it from the top to the bottom, or will it be like an canadian coin where you need to flip it from the left to the right (or vice versa)?
 
hmm...I have a prototype of my coin printed in plastic. I see that it flips left to right. That's just the way I made it.
 
It was an early version where I tried subtle detail on the lion's mane, the plastic couldn't duplicate the detail well. Which is one of the reason's my later design has nice sharp cuts into the mane. I printed it in the clear plastic they have, so I'll have to paint it to take a good picture.

Will post a picture tomorrow.
 
over all it was a pretty good first attempt....but the second version is going to be way more clean and has a lot of the issues being fixed from what i've seen.
it is nice however, to see a psychical coin and not just a bunch of drawings or computer images for a change!:cool

Jintosh said:
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/1024x768q90/633/E56iii.jpg

This is an older version printed in plastic and spray painted. Yes, there are print lines on one side. :)
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