Front: “You never know how strong you are until being strong is your only choice”
Back: “Life is tough but so are you”
At a glance
- Theme: long, quiet strength: the months that don't end
- Good for: a long treatment, caring for a parent or child, single parenting, a long deployment, a slow recovery
- Gift for: a caregiver, a single parent, someone in long treatment, a friend carrying a lot for a long time
- Finishes: Antique Bronze (brass alloy), Antique Silver (brass alloy)
- Size: 39 mm, about 1 oz, die struck in the USA
The meaning
Some hard times are short and loud. Others are long and quiet: the treatment that lasts months, the parent who needs care every day, the year of doing everything alone. The front is for those: you never know how strong you are until being strong is your only choice. It is one of the most shared lines about strength, because so many people have found it true.
The back is the four word answer for the days that feel like too much: life is tough, but so are you.
The design
The front shows a man down on one knee, straining as the chains on his arms snap apart, with the quote filling the cracked sky above him. The back sets life is tough but so are you inside a ring of heavy chain links and barbed wire.
On good days and hard days
- On good days, it is a reminder of everything you have already come through, and of the strength you built doing it.
- On hard days, when you are tired and it feels like too much, it gives you words to hold on to: life is tough, but so are you. One more day.
Carry it
It is a coin for the waiting room, the night shift and the long drive to the hospital. Keep it in a pocket or a wallet and hold it when you need a reason to keep going.
Give it
Give it to someone who is carrying a lot for a long time: a caregiver, a single parent, a friend in treatment, a family with someone deployed. It tells them you see how strong they have had to be.
Specs
- Diameter: 1.54 in (39 mm), about the size of a silver dollar
- Thickness: 2.7 mm
- Weight: about 1 oz (28 g)
- Material: brass alloy (Antique Bronze, Antique Silver)
- Made: die struck, minted in the USA
- Each coin is antiqued with a special patina so it looks like it has already been in circulation. The patina never settles the same way twice, so no two coins look exactly alike. Small variations in color and shading are normal, and they are what make your coin one of a kind.
Questions
What does “you never know how strong you are until being strong is your only choice” mean?
That real strength often shows up only when there is no other option, and that you have more of it than you think.
What is a good gift for a caregiver?
Something small that recognizes how much they carry. This coin says it on the back: life is tough, but so are you.
How is it different from the Keep Going Coin?
Keep Going is for a crisis happening right now. Endurance is for the long haul, when the hard part lasts months.
Other coins about resilience
- Keep Going Coin: for the middle of the worst week
- Dum Spiro Spero Coin: while I breathe, I hope
- Invictus Coin: master of my fate
- This Too Shall Pass Coin: calm for hard seasons
Care: keep it dry and wipe it with a soft cloth. No polishing needed; the aged finish is part of the look.
Original design by EDC Reminder Coins, protected by copyright. We don't take custom orders.