We all get to a point where we might feel like we hit a wall in coin collecting. Perhaps all the coins we have seen are the same ones we already have. Maybe you aren’t feeling like the collecting is accomplishing anything. You sit and buy coins and you have no outlet in sharing your awesome collection of coins. I know this and I think many collectors in the challenge coin hobby have been down this road before. No doubt if you haven’t been there you will eventually unless you …

Well 2009 is here officially and now its time to kick it off with some predictions and some resolutions. Each year it’s been the norm to give a little guidance or insight on what people are planning to do with their year that lies ahead. So let’s start with some predictions:
- Challenge Coins will expand it’s collecting base by at least 20%
- New leaders and contributors will emerge to give back more to the collecting community
- 2 Books will be published on challenge coins
- The string of average coin making …

In every way conceivable round coins are the standard, maybe to the point where it’s what the majority of collectors know. Sure they may have seen coins that are not round but they don’t “know” about them. It’s been over the last decade that these strangers have come into our world being in the shape of an aircraft, artillery, bullets, animals, and whatever else the imagination has offered us. They bring what I would like to call it, flavor to existing collections across the board. The question posed though is, …