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 »
Posts Tagged: military coins
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 »
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 »
WEDDING COINS
I wonder if wedding coins can be called challenge coins? There must be a joke in there somewhere. Anyway. We do a fair number of wedding coins. When I was first asked to manufacture one I was surprised. After talking to that groom and many more since then I have become a true… Read more »
CUSTOM SPORTS MEDALS
SHOULD YOU HAVE CUSTOM SPORTS MEDALS I just love the idea of personalized and custom sports awards; especially when we are talking about young people. I was visiting someone one day and they had dozens of sports medals. I was surprised that so many were the same. I supposed that she had gotten them from… Read more »
CHALLENGE COIN COLLECTING
CHALLENGE COINS – THE NEW COLECTABLE Well who would have thought? Those coins we made for units going back nearly two decades have become a really hot-selling collectable. The other day I was at a flea market and spotted the Military Intelligence Corps Commander’s coin. I asked they guy where he got… Read more »
THE REAL HISTORY OF MILITARY COINS – REALLY
THE CHALLENGE OF FINDING THE ORIGINS OF THE CHALLENGE COIN OK. Now you have heard all of the stories about downed airmen in World War One. There is the story about the Special Forces units in Vietnam. So really how old are Military Coins? TAKE YOUR PICK AS TO THE ORIGINS OF MILITARY… Read more »
HOW TO DESIGN A CHALLLENGE COIN
FROM AN EXPERIENCED CHALLENGE COIN DESIGNER If there is one thing that 16 years of experience has shown us it is that there are a thousand answers to this question. I you are reading this the chances are that you have seen a few hundred different coins in your time and they vary wildly…. Read more »
GEOCOINS AND GEOCACHING COINS
GEOCACHING COINS ARE PART OF ITS HISTORY Very early on in the history of the sport of geocaching we made Geocoins for participants. It was a natural fit. Many geocachers were, early on, former military people. Many still are. Military coins are part of their lexicon and they already knew the value of challenge… Read more »
CHALLENGE COIN MYTHS PART ONE
MYTHS ABOUT THE HISTORY OF MILITARY COINS There seems to be two prevalent thoughts about where military coins come from. Both wrong if we are speaking of military coins rather than only of challenge coins. So first, what are the differences. Simply put one could say that all coins presented by and to… Read more »