Finding a gift or a token to show people you appreciate them can be a daunting task. Most often, personalized gifts are prohibitively expensive and affordable gifts are impersonal and often have nothing to do with the occasion one is celebrating. Face it, most gifts are tossed aside within a few weeks or months after the occasion. Why not make an attempt to get something that people will remember for years, if not the rest of their lives.
What kind of gift could be both reasonably affordable, personalized, and memorable? Well, that gift would be a challenge coin. Challenge coins typically aren't very useful gifts for things like Christmas and a person's birthday, but a challenge coin fills a niche that not many personalized gifts fill. These coins can be issues to people for going above and beyond the call of duty or simply for being valuable friends / employees / comrades.
Where do they come from? The tradition of the challenge coin started in the US Military. The legend is that a wealthy WWI officer had challenge coins made for all of the pilots in his unit, and one of the pilots ended up getting shot down over Germany, but escaped to France. The legend says that once in France, the person was assumed to be a German that crossed the border, and the French were getting ready to execute him. The execution was halted, however, when the challenge coin was discovered on his person and he was returned to the US. As such, all of the members of that squadron kept their coins and thus the tradition of the challenge coin was born.
This style of coin makes great gifts in that they are heavily customizable and they represent something significant, they're not just another gift to be given to a person and forgotten about in a week or so. These coins come in many different shapes and sizes, and they have many different options. A person can customize the material the coin is made out of, if the coin is painted, the logo or graphic stamped on the coin, and a variety of other options. The coins can be solid or they can even have cutouts and complicated designs. The sky is the limit when it comes to coin design. The coins that were once a military honor are now available to everyone who earns the right to carry one.
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