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What are Navy challenge coins?
Navy challenge coins are small metal pieces a command designs around its own marks. One side can carry the ship’s name and hull number. The other can show the crest or the command emblem with a motto and the ship’s nickname, and you can add the ports you visited or the waters you patrolled. Rope edges are a favorite when you want a nautical feel. A spinner is an extra you choose so sailors can turn a moving part, and a custom shape follows the ship’s outline.
On a ship, the hull is home for months at a time, and the people aboard become an extended family. You give custom Navy coins when someone’s work stood out, and a chief may hand one over at pinning. Sailors trade them across ships, so a career leaves a collection that maps where you served. The coin is small enough to carry every day, and you can pull it out years later to tell the story.
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Honor the
deployment
A long deployment asks a lot of a ship and the people who keep her running. When the handshake includes a coin, you’re marking the sailors whose work got the crew through the cruise. That coin stays with them, ready whenever they want to talk about what the ship went through together.
Give one to
the crew
A commissioning or a big anniversary is a natural time to give every sailor on the ship or submarine a coin. Reunion groups want one too when the crew gets together again. Your coin can hold her name and the number she wears along with the history of the command, so families and old shipmates take the command home with them.
Reward what
they earned
Finishing a demanding school or earning a hard qualification is a moment your sailors remember. Put the school name or the qualification title on the coin and give it to them when they cross that line. It rides along with them after the ceremony, and it reminds them what they finished long after that day.
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Questions about designing and ordering a coin for a command or a school start here.
We offer gold, silver and copper platings standard with our orders. We also offer upgraded antique finishes that give an aged look to your coins. Antique finishes help greatly when your design is mostly metal (die struck) as the darker recessed areas provide a greater contrast for text and fine lines. We also offer some specialty colored metals that have a similar appearance to powder-coating (no charge), black nickel (a shiny gunmetal appearance), and now an iridescent rainbow plating (price on request).
The minimum order is 50 coins, but we always recommend ordering 100 due to the quantity discount at this quantity. Typically ordering 100 coins is only ~20% more expensive than ordering 50.
Our coins are made from brass metal if they are round. If the coins are a special shape or feature a high-relief 3D design, the material is a zinc alloy. We can also make coins out of copper, iron, and aluminum depending on your needs.
We keep your coin’s mold for a period of 3 years. If you reorder in that 3 year period, the 3 year storage period starts over!
We have multiple options for production location depending on your design choice and budget. We have manufacturing here in Florida and also overseas. Please consult with one of our sale professionals about what will work best for your challenge coin order.
You do not pay for a mold fee again on a reorder as long as the previous mold is still on file (kept for 3 years from the latest order date).