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We all are familiar with the currency coins but hardly know about challenge coins or custom coins, which are substituting medals in a sense.

What Is a Custom Coin or Challenge Coin?

A custom coin is a tradition to give an award for an honourable act or job done. A custom coin is a kind of award that serves different purposes in the modern era.

What Does a Custom Coin Serve?

1. With a custom coin, you can honour someone for desired acts.
2. Custom coins can become a matter of pride for recipients and act as an award.
3. Custom coin helps in celebration of recipients’ accomplishments.
4. Custom coin assists in celebration of events and commemorates the same for an extended period.
5. Distributing custom coins among participants, during a celebration of a milestone in life, can make the event memorable for the entire lifespan.
6. Custom coins can boost the morale of the recipients, particularly in the case of military services where a coin considers worthier than its price.
7. When custom coins carried/wear all times, it establishes membership in a group or an organization. For instance, building camaraderie in a troop is possible with custom coins!

Who Does Use Custom Coin?

Military:

The history of custom/challenge coin indicates its beginning was in the military. Meddles of costly materials were for the limited number of people. However, customized coins became icons for plenty of members in a group or battalion who participated in wars or acted on heroic deeds.

Sports:

Many sports allow only one or limited numbers of trophies or awards for the top winners. However, winning a game often requires active contributions of many players and staff working behind the curtain. Custom coins help clubs or contest organizers to give honour rests of contributors involved directly or indirectly in a game, or an event of sports to make it a success.

Academia:

Universities, colleges, and schools of all levels are striving for feasible awards to honour a big mass. When custom coins order in bulk, it proves a cheaper option and serve many people at a time.

Corporates & Businesses:

Various organizations always looking for ways to encourage productivity, sales, and boost the morale of working people. Apart from trophies and awards, they usually find custom coins an innovative idea to hit their goals.

Families:

Today, many families are celebrating various events together, including birthdays, marriages, various anniversaries, and age-related (20-40-50 years) milestones. Custom coins consider the best idea to commemorate those events for an entire lifespan for a mass of people who have received it.

Why Should We Strive for a Custom Coin Idea?

Custom coin makers have templates and image galleries for standard or say common purpose ideas or design.

• They hardly know an actual purpose behind your custom coin requirements.
• Coin makers also like to know what sorts of images, logo of your business, or custom texts (mascots & slogans) you need on a coin.
• Many clients have preferences for artwork, fonts of texts, colours, shapes, sizes, and styles.
• Challenge coins have different kinds of edge/border styles or patterns.
• Thanks to the latest coin making technologies, we can imprint 3D design beautifully on custom challenge coins. The same goes true for embossing and engraving technologies like laser printing.
• Today, the industry has different kinds of enamels and plating technologies to create impressive surface textures and finishes to augment look-n-feel of custom coins.
• Many challenges or custom coins have preferences for material used in the coin-making process.
• Modern technologies permit us to experiment with innovative synthetic material apart from traditional kinds of stuff. For instance, resins, acrylic, and crystals can give you translucent to traditional (non-transparent) material options.
• Besides the cost of material, the weight of coins also influences the performance of custom coins to hit desired goals.
• Besides the cost of material, the weight of coins also influences the performance of custom coins to hit desired goals.
A unique background texture can render coins unique in appearance.

18 Best Custom Coin Ideas

To help you out in finding the best custom coin ideas, Olympia is going to illustrate at least eighteen (18) viable and feasible options for you. By exploring these ideas, you can cut your revision attempts and save time a lot.

Purposes-based Coin Ideas

We have discussed different purposes behind awarding the challenge or custom coins. Let’s revisit those all with details regarding coin design ideas.

#1 – Military Coin Ideas

Armed forces usually have three wings in most of the countries of the world. 

Each wing has its symbols and traditions to honour their soldiers. So, each wing needs unique designs while creating challenge coins.

Besides these, a country also needs:

#2 – Sports Coin Ideas

#3 – Academy/Education Coin Ideas

#4 – Milestone Coin Ideas

#5 – Personal Events Coin Ideas

#6 – Commemorative Coin Ideas

#7 – Corporate Coin Ideas

#8 – Charity Coin Ideas

Coin Object Characteristics-based Ideas

Here, we are starving for coin ideas. Coins are a kind of objects. An object always carries various attributes. So, we can modify those attributes creatively and get attractive yet functional coin ideas.

#9 – Coin Size-based Ideas

#10 –Shape-based Coin Ideas

#11 – Coin Thickness-based Ideas

#12 – Coin Texture-based Ideas

#13 – Coin Enamel Colour-based Ideas

#14 – Coin Metal Plating-based Ideas

#15 – Coin Custom Edge-based Ideas

#16 –Metal Material-based Coin Ideas

• Pricy metal custom coins – Gold, Silver, Bronze, Copper, etc.
• Cheap metal custom coins – Brass, Nickle, Aluminium, etc.

We also provide coins in cheap metal options besides pricy metals.

#17 –Synthetic Material-based Coin Ideas

#18 – Multiple Tools Coin Ideas

We create multipurpose and multiple tool custom coins as per your design ideas, branding needs, and niche-specific requirements.