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CHALLENGE COINS -POLITICAL CANDIDATES

    With the election season coming candidates across the country are looking for ways to increase giving.  Challenge your supporters to do more with a challenge coin.   THE FUNDRAISING DINNER   This common practice can be enhanced by adding a challenge coin at each place setting.  Military coins have been used for decades… Read more »

WHO HAS THE OLDEST CHALLENGE COIN?

  THE OLDEST CHALLENGE COIN   Do you have an old challenge coin or military coin?  If so please send me a scan and I will put it up on this blog.  It would be interesting to see how far back we can go.   WHAT MILITARY COIN WOULD YOU MOST LIKE TO OWN? I… Read more »

CHALLENGE COINS MAKING THE NEWS

  I remember when we were one of the few companies making military coins.  They were popular but really just catching on.  One night I was watching a televised speech from the oval office  by President Bill Clinton and there behind his desk were challenge coins.  President Clinton had quite a collection of Challenge coins. … Read more »

WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE CHALLENGE COIN

THE MILITARY COIN/CHALLENGE COIN QUESTION I AM MOST FREQUENTLY ASKED   Well I guess the most obvious answer would be the coins we did for Suze Orman upon the release of her book.   It wins not only because she and her associate KT are two of the nicest and kindest people we have worked with… Read more »

CHALLENGE COINS FOR MUSEUMS AND GALLERIES

    One area that has been growing lately is the use of military challenge coins for museum fundraisers.  Challenge coins offer a unique way to promote a special event and increase participation.   Ideally a museum would create one side of the custom coin that would be common to all of their coins.  The other… Read more »

MORE CHALLENGE COIN MYTHS

ARE ALL MILITARY CHALLENGE COINS COMMANDER COINS?   Absolutely not!  We have made challenge coins for Senior Noncommissioned Officers, Staff Officers and even one gung-ho corporal.  (That is one of my favorite coins.  I carry it with one of my four-star coins and when someone coins me I haul out the corporal.  It  never hurts… Read more »

US MADE CHALLENGE COINS. AFFORDABLE?

 US MADE CHALLENGE COINS VERSUS OVERSEAS MADE COINS   So there is the deal.  It is simply a matter of money and design.  At D & R we are happy to make your military coins in either the US or overseas.  As I said, it is mostly about budget.   US MADE MILITARY COINS  … Read more »

A POCKET FULL OF ATTABOYS

CHALLENGE COINS FOR EMPLOYEE PERKS   To correctly call your coin a “Challenge Coin” there ought to be a challenge behind it.  So how do you make that happen?  The first step is to decide what you want the employee to do.  As the old “One Minute Manager” used to say, “Catch people doing something… Read more »

THE SECRET MILITARY COIN BLOG

CHALLENGE COINS FROM “SECRET” GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATIONS   This is just a fun blog post to speak about these for a moment.  As I previously posted, it is difficult to verify that a coin you have acquired is authentic.  This is particularly difficult when it is from ‘secret’ organizations or secret military units.   RARE MILITARY… Read more »