Citadel Colour Collectible Coin - Warhammer Store Exclusive (2022)

Product Overview

• Item: Citadel Colour Collectible Coin
• Brand: Games Workshop / Citadel
• Product Code: 99449999813
• Barcode: 5011921190164
• Copyright: Games Workshop Ltd, 2022
• Distribution: Exclusive to Warhammer stores - never sold through general retail or the webstore
• Material: Struck metal collectible coin
• Format: Sealed in original Games Workshop polybag with printed exclusivity card
• Age Rating: 15+
• Type: Display collectible - not a game component

Description

Games Workshop's collectible coin program is one of the quieter traditions of the Warhammer hobby - a small, struck-metal token handed out at Warhammer stores, cafes, and events to mark participation, achievement, or simply the act of walking through the door. They are not sold on the webstore. They cannot be ordered. You get one by being there.

This coin celebrates Citadel Colour, the paint range that has defined the look of the Warhammer hobby for four decades. From the first pots of the 1980s through the modern Base, Layer, Shade, and Contrast system, Citadel Colour is the through-line connecting every painter who has ever thinned a paint, botched a highlight, and come back the next evening to try again. The coin is a nod to that shared craft rather than to any single faction or setting.

Weighty in the hand and finished with the raised relief typical of the series, these coins were designed to be collected in sets - six coins earning a hobbyist a dedicated album to house them. Most were pocketed, played with, or lost. Comparatively few survive still sealed in the original polybag with the printed card intact.

Collectible Value

Store-exclusive distribution is the single most important factor in this piece's collectibility. Because these coins were never available for purchase online or through independent retailers, the entire supply was capped at whatever quantity was physically distributed through Warhammer store counters during a limited window. There is no reprint mechanism and no back-catalogue restock.

Sealed examples with the original bag and exclusivity card intact command a meaningful premium over loose coins, which circulate more freely and carry no proof of provenance. For collectors assembling a complete run of the coin series, the sealed-with-card configuration is the preferred acquisition, and it becomes progressively harder to source as the program ages.

The Citadel Colour design also has broader appeal than faction-specific coins - it speaks to painters across every Games Workshop system rather than to a single army's fanbase, which widens the pool of interested buyers considerably.

Order Now

Warhammer store exclusives do not come back into stock - once this coin leaves our shelf, replacing it means waiting for another collection to break up. Add it to your cart today and secure a sealed piece of Games Workshop's in-store collectible program. Shipped promptly and packed protectively from Hammer of War in Tacoma, Washington. Building a coin set? Message us about combined shipping on multiple collectibles.