Recently, a military customer wanted a 3-D design of a helicopter for one side of his new challenge coin. He didn’t have a drawing that he could send, but he had a photograph. “No problem,” said Paul Stark, president of The Monterey Company, a leading custom-made lapel pin and coin manufacturer. “Send us your photo and we can turn it into a workable design, perfect ...
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A military challenge coin is a coin that bears a unit’s insignia and is carried by its members. Traditionally, these coins are given to prove membership and to enhance morale. Like many other aspects of military tradition, the origin of the challenge coin is debatable. The most common view is that it began during WWI with the U.S. Army Air Service (a precursor to the ...
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