Company creates coin to commemorate canceled cruise

John Jordan of Sarasota-based Cruise Coins designs and creates brass coins for cruise ship guests.

  • By Business Observer Staff
  • | 2:30 p.m. July 23, 2020
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Courtesy. For a Carnival trans-Atlantic cruise that was scheduled for June and then canceled due to the pandemic, Jordan created a special coin that read, ‘The Cruise That Almost Was.”
Courtesy. For a Carnival trans-Atlantic cruise that was scheduled for June and then canceled due to the pandemic, Jordan created a special coin that read, ‘The Cruise That Almost Was.”
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Travel plans have been scrapped left and right during the pandemic. The cruise ship industry has been particularly hard hit, and the CDC recently announced an extension of its No Sail Order for cruise ships through Sept. 30.

An area entrepreneur — whose business revolves around cruises — didn’t let a canceled cruise stop him from creating a product to commemorate one “Cruise That Almost Was.”

 

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