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BROWSE
Farewell to the Penny Packaging
Production Method
Emboss
Foil stamp
Offset
Design
Monnet Design
Creative Direction: Stéphane Monnet, Agnes Wong
Design: Stéphane Monnet
Printing
Anderson Communications
In 2012 Canada decided to start phasing out the penny from their coinage system due to excessive and rising cost of production relative to face value. These boxes—with cleverly placed iconic maple leaves, like the ones depicted in the penny, exiting the frame—were designed for collectors coins, which were released to commemorate the soon to be extinct one cent piece.
Client
Royal Canadian Mint
Quantity Produced
1,500 – 30,000
Production Cost
–
Production Time
1 month
Dimensions (Width × Height × Depth)
–
Page Count
–
Paper Stock
–
Number of Colors
5
Varnishes
Matte PP
Binding
–
Typography
Caslon
Avenir Next
Project Description
The Royal Canadian Mint created several collector coins to commemorate the elimination of the Canadian 1-cent coin and needed a set of packaging to tie them all together. The emblematic maple leaves that have adorned the penny for over 50 years are shown exiting the frame each of the boxes and are beautifully embossed and foil stamped. We created the “Farewell” theme and differentiated the boxes with different colored foils that represent the color of the coins within each box.Production Lesson(s)
The production phase of the project was very well managed by the mint and their printer. Anderson Communications, the firm responsible for managing the printing, arranged an incredible multi-level emboss of the maple leaves that are on the front of each box. They beautifully match the detail found on the actual coins.
Post Author
Duncan Robertson
Former intern at UnderConsideration LLC.
More: Online / On Twitter
Date Published
March 19, 2013
Filed Under
Emboss
Foil stamp
Offset
Packaging
Tagged with
collector
gold foil
multi-level embossing
silver foil
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