Thursday 29 March 2012

Growing Popularity Of Challenge Coins In Today’s Highly Competitive World




Challenge coins are actually coins that made on order. The order is placed by different companies or based on special occasions or events on national or international levels for any company. A challenge coin was initially based on military organizations. Most of the Custom Challenge Coins can be termed as medallions as well. Many service members are sort of addicted to the collection of various challenge coins.

Custom Challenge Coins
The challenge coins look different and are heavier in weight and their size also differs from that of the regular money coins. The challenge the coins usually have different shapes and colors on them as well.
The normal money based coins are usually of the following size: 38mm x 2.5mm thick
On the other hand the challenge coins are normally 45mm x 3mm. The challenge coins are available in all shapes;


i)                   Square
ii)                 Oval
iii)              Round
iv)              Octagon
v)                 Pentagon
vi)              Etc
Many of the challenge coins are multitude while some have embellishments only on one side.
Challenge Coins are available in many different materials as well. The companies can order the material according to their budgets. Some of the coins are also available in pure Gold only which is 24K. Other metals like 22K, 21K, 18 K and 14k Gold and several other metals also that are used in the making of the coin. The finishing of the coin can be done in gold, silver, nickel, brass, copper or bronze. All the outer coating which shows the different design is made up of such material that is scratch resistant. 

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