From Holistic Health to Handmade Coin Jewelry: Nicole Mikel Swani Celebrates 10 Years of Singapore Seahorse Coin Jewelry

Many Tipp citizens will remember Nicole Mikel Swani—long-time owner of The Earth's Center in downtown Tipp. For 10 years, from 2005 to 2015, Nicole served as

Nicole Mikel Swani, former owner of The Earth's Center in Tipp City, has been celebrating the 10-year anniversary of her own line of handmade jewelry this month. Crafted from coins from around the world, the jewelry is called Singapore Seahorse Coin Jewelry. This year also marks the first anniversary of her retail location for the jewelry in the heart of downtown Yellow Springs.

Many Tipp citizens will remember Nicole for her 10 years of service as a clinical holistic health practitioner and life coach at The Earth’s Center, from 2005 to 2015. During that time, she orchestrated the work of more than 15 different holistic health practitioners and fitness instructors. At the same time, she worked as an instructor at the Ohio Institute of Allied Health.

Today, Nicole lives in Yellow Springs with her husband Kunal and daughter Anna. She explained to the Gazette how she moved from holistic health to jewelry making, and how her new career is surprisingly similar to her previous one. In her words: it's all about connection.

"Nicole, take us back to 2014 when you ran The Earth's Center. How did coin jewelry come into the picture?"

"My dad was a coin collector and liked to use his metal detector to find coins. I always wanted to do everything that he was doing, and so I was always interested in coins, even as a child. When my dad passed away in 2010, I inherited his coin collection, and I got the idea to make jewelry for myself from some of the coins. So that’s how I learned to make necklaces.

"Then one of my friends who had been in the military gave me another bag of coins that he had collected—really cool ones with different animals on them. I thought, “well, now I know how to make necklaces from coins, so why don’t I keep going?” I made a batch of about 20 and put them out for sale in the waiting room at the Earth's Center. Everyone started going crazy right away, asking me “do you have a coin from this country, do you have a coin from that country,” so I started making more.

"Soon after that, there was an event in downtown Tipp City, and I set up a table at Grounds for Pleasure. I put out as many coin necklaces as I could make, as well as pins and bracelets and things like that. Once again, people just went crazy for them. I started to realize that this was about more than just jewelry. The coins were opening a window for people to connect with memories in their life—places they had been, places they had always dreamed about going, stories of their ancestry, connections with people they love.

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