The Inaugural Release
Series 0
Slabbed stainless steel trading cards with real embedded metal hits. Mints 1 and 2 are sold out, Mint 3 is next, and the 1/1 platinum hunt is on.
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What Series 0 is.
Series 0 is the prologue of VaultMint: one theme, Athena and the story of precious metals, told across three mints with new artwork in each. Every card is forged in steel and built across multiple rarity tiers. It introduces the format every future series will follow. Each one is a new expedition into a different world, era, or tradition.
Each tier carries part of the story of humanity's discovery, acceptance, and use of rare and precious metals, beginning with Athena pouring molten gold and silver into Earth's crucible. Embedded metals, connected lore, and the first hidden path to the 1/1 platinum all live inside Series 0. It's less a checklist and more a collection built for your curio cabinet or wall. VaultMint elevates your collection into a timeless archive.
Series 0 is just the beginning of VaultMint, built by collectors, for collectors. Every card is part of a layered collecting experience, combining premium materials, embedded metals, connected lore, numbered rarity, and hidden discovery.
Sold Out
Mint 1
The mint that started Series 0. The Alpha Bounty and the original artwork. All 315 cards have sold.
See Mint 1Sold Out
Mint 2
Exclusive alternate artwork by ArtbyShipwreck and the Hidden Hoard system. All 315 cards have sold.
See Mint 2Coming Soon
Mint 3
The final mint of Series 0. 315 cards, and the close of the inaugural release. Details will be announced when it opens.
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Treasure Hunt
A puzzle is hidden across the Series 0 cards. The first solver claims a one-of-one platinum card.
Enter the huntClaim
The Mint 1 Alpha Bounty
The Gold and Silver Alphas have been pulled. 10 troy oz of silver remain unclaimed through the Copper Alpha.
Read the termsAnatomy of a card
What is actually in the card.
Every card is solid stainless steel. One in five also carries an embedded coin: copper, silver, or gold. That is real, intrinsic value you can hold, not a picture of metal printed on cardboard.
| Tier | Metal content | Mintage |
|---|---|---|
| Copper | 1 oz copper coin | /150 |
| Silver | 1 oz silver coin | /30 |
| Gold | 1/10 oz gold coin | /9 |
| Platinum | 1 oz platinum coin | 1/1 |
A Collectors Box carries a 20% chance at an embedded metal hit. Inner Cartons and Master Cases guarantee them outright.
Cards without an embed are Foundation, the base Series 0 card, or Short Forge, its rarer variant layer. Mint 2 adds the Chromaforge and Inlay color parallels, each numbered far shorter than the base run.
Construction
- Substrate
- Solid stainless steel
- Presentation
- Slabbed in a rigid display holder
- Coin mount
- Airtite capsule, set through the card so both faces read
- Label plate
- Engraved aluminum: tier, serial number, and card title
- Surface
- Laser engraved, laser annealed, or UV printed
Both are real pulls from Series 0, not product renders.
Engraved, heat-colored, or printed: see how each finish is made.
The Gold and Silver Alphas Have Been Pulled
10 troy oz of silver is still in the wild.
The bounty is real, and two Alphas are off the board. Congrats to Michael Moshy on the Silver Alpha and Jonathan Bartlett on the Gold Alpha pulls! The Copper Alpha (10 troy oz) is the last one still out there in sealed Mint 1 product. Mint 1 has sold out, but the bounty is still open. Its closing date will be announced.
Still unclaimed
10 troy oz of silver
Gold Alpha (5 oz)
Pulled by Jonathan Bartlett
Silver Alpha (7 oz)
Pulled by Michael Moshy
Closes
Date to be announced
Every sealed Mint 1 box still out there could hold the Copper Alpha.
The Platinum 1/1 Hunt
One sequence. One card. One winner.
Symbols, lore, tiers, and card details all feed into a hidden mechanic. The first solver claims the one-of-one Platinum card.
It is not pay-to-win. The Platinum is not sitting in a random box waiting for the biggest spender. The hunt rewards attention, pattern recognition, and problem-solving. A smart collector can make progress without owning every card.
Enter the Treasure HuntThe VaultMint Collector Path
Built to be opened, studied, chased, collected, and admired.
Rip
Crack the seal on a real slabbed metal card. Every box reveals a Foundation, Short Forge, or numbered metal-tier chase.
Inspect
Check the tier, serial, metal, symbols, and lore. In VaultMint, every detail is intentional.
Connect
Compare your pull against the rest of the set. Patterns emerge across Foundation, Short Forge, Copper, Silver, and Gold.
Chase
Follow the clues, share discoveries, and help the community piece it together. The trail leads to the Platinum 1/1.
Build the Set
Series 0 is only the beginning. Each series has its own theme, its own chase structure, and its own deeper story.
VaultMint is designed so the experience does not end when the card is pulled. Each reveal deepens the lore, brings the set closer to completion, and becomes part of a collecting path built to continue across future series.
Finish
Three ways a card gets its surface. Two of them add nothing to the steel at all.
Forged
No inkLaser engraved
The artwork is cut directly into the steel, so it reads monochrome. Permanent as the metal itself.
All of Mint 1. Foundation and Short Forge Forged in Mint 2. Every embedded-metal card.
Holoforge
No inkLaser annealed
Color drawn out of the steel by heat rather than laid on top of it. No ink, no foil, no film. The rainbow is the metal reacting.
The Aurora Holoforge, one of the cards you can pull in Mint 2.
Chromaforge & Inlay
UV printed
Full color printed onto the steel. Chromaforge carries color across the whole face; Inlay leaves half the card engraved so both processes meet on one artifact.
Chromaforge and Inlay parallels in Mint 2.
Finish and card color are independent. Engraved artwork reads monochrome and UV artwork reads full color, but either can sit on any of the stainless steel colors.
Engraved cards form the base of a mint. Mint 2 Foundation runs to 70. Every color parallel is numbered far shorter, between 15 and 24 per run.
For the Record
The official Series 0 checklist.
VaultMint Series 0 is manufactured by VaultMint and released in 3 mints of 315 cards each: 945 cards across the series, plus a single 1/1 platinum card awarded through the Series 0 treasure hunt. Every card is produced new and slabbed at manufacture, and every box, Inner, and Master Case ships factory-sealed.
Series 0 Mint 1 was finalized before its first shipment on May 11, 2026. Series 0 Mint 2 was finalized as of August 11, 2026. The number of sealed products and the individual items in each mint will not change. Mint 3 will publish its checklist here when it opens.
The official product checklists publish every individual item with its quantity, distinguishing features, and finalization statement, per mint.
Series 0 Mint 1 — 315 cards
| Item | Group | Produced |
|---|---|---|
| Foundation | Main run | 189 |
| Short Forge | Main run | 63 |
| Mint 1 Copper (1 oz copper coins) | Embedded treasure | 50 |
| Mint 1 Silver (1 oz silver coins) | Embedded treasure | 10 |
| Mint 1 Gold (1/10 oz gold coins) | Embedded treasure | 3 |
| Total cards in the mint | 315 | |
Series 0 Mint 2 — 315 cards
| Item | Group | Produced |
|---|---|---|
| Foundation | Core cards | 70 |
| Short Forge Forged (Standard B&W) | Core cards | 33 |
| Short Forge Chromaforge | Core cards | 15 |
| Short Forge Inlay | Core cards | 15 |
| Mint 2 Chromaforge | Core cards | 24 |
| Mint 2 Inlay | Core cards | 24 |
| Mint 1 Art Chromaforge | Mint 1 parallels | 24 |
| Mint 1 Art Inlay | Mint 1 parallels | 24 |
| Aurora Holoforge | Special inserts | 15 |
| Artist Signature (Regular) | Special inserts | 3 |
| Artist Signature (Marbled) | Special inserts | 3 |
| Error Cards | Special inserts | 2 |
| Mint 2 Copper (1 oz copper coins) | Embedded treasure | 50 |
| Mint 2 Silver (1 oz silver coins) | Embedded treasure | 10 |
| Mint 2 Gold (1/10 oz gold coins) | Embedded treasure | 3 |
| Total cards in the mint | 315 | |
Mint 2 also packs 63 Hidden Hoard scratch-offs across its sealed boxes: bonus reward inserts, not cards, and not part of the 315-card checklist. The full reward list is published on the Hidden Hoard page.
Sealed Products & MSRP
- Series 0 Mint 1 Founders 50$100
- Series 0 Mint 1 Collectors Box$100
- Series 0 Mint 1 Inner Carton$475
- Series 0 Mint 1 Master Case$1,800
- Series 0 Mint 2 Collector Box$100
- Series 0 Mint 2 Inner (5 Boxes)$475
- Series 0 Mint 2 Master Case (20 Boxes)$1,800
Condition: every card is brand new, encapsulated in its slab at production, and ungraded. Prices shown are MSRP.
Common Questions
Everything you need to know before you collect.
Collectors Boxes are packed from the same mint distribution and target a 20% metal hit rate overall (copper, silver, or gold). Inner Cartons include 1 guaranteed metal embed hit per 5 cards (copper, silver, or gold). Master Cases include 4 guaranteed metal embed hits total (one per Inner), and one of those four is guaranteed to be a silver or gold case hit.
Yes - each mint follows the same structured distribution, and all quantities and odds reset per mint. Mint 2 also adds the Hidden Hoard bonus layer on top of the standard odds.
Mints 1 and 2 are sold out. Mint 3 opening dates will be announced soon. Customers will receive tracking information once their order is processed.