Can someone explain Challenge Coins?

[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Can someone explain Challenge Coins?

Posted: 12/9/2010 12:47:14 PM EDT

I was just given this Challenge Coin because of a project I've been working on for the last few months and know there is some sort of meaning/custom behind them.

Posted: 12/9/2010 12:47:46 PM EDT

[#1]

Morale bullshit

Posted: 12/9/2010 12:54:53 PM EDT

[#2]

here

more

Posted: 12/9/2010 12:55:19 PM EDT

[#3]

Lots of folklore about how they came to be.
Basically, a challenge coin is used to "challenge" others in a group by producing the coin and knocking or placing it on the table/bar.
Others produce their coin and they do not pay for drinks, whereas he who has no coin or the coin of lowest denomination pays for drinks of the challenger.
If the challenger ends up losing he pays for the drinks for losing the challenge.

Posted: 12/9/2010 1:04:25 PM EDT

[#4]

Bullshit. You know exactly what it is for or you could have asked when given it.

You just want to show it off.

Posted: 12/9/2010 1:06:07 PM EDT

[#5]

Quoted:

Bullshit. You know exactly what it is for or you could have asked when given it.

You just want to show it off.

Haha. I honestly have no idea where this would even rank in the Challenge Coin hierarchy.

Posted: 12/9/2010 1:10:36 PM EDT

[#6]

Quoted:

Quoted:

Bullshit. You know exactly what it is for or you could have asked when given it.

You just want to show it off.

Haha. I honestly have no idea where this would even rank in the Challenge Coin hierarchy.

Hydrogen Bomb? Or antimatter bomb?

Posted: 12/9/2010 1:15:02 PM EDT

[#7]

Quoted:

Quoted:

Bullshit. You know exactly what it is for or you could have asked when given it.

You just want to show it off.

Haha. I honestly have no idea where this would even rank in the Challenge Coin hierarchy.

Hydrogen Bomb? Or antimatter bomb?

Deathstar?

This has got to be better than the Pelosi coin.

Posted: 12/9/2010 1:21:12 PM EDT

[#8]

They were always good in EOD when we met up with guys from our sister units, flash a coin and see if anyone forgot theirs so they could start off the drinking session. Of course, it back fires some of the time and you end up buying a round of drinks.

Posted: 12/9/2010 1:30:14 PM EDT

[#9]

Sounds a bit like credit card roulette.

Posted: 12/9/2010 1:32:43 PM EDT

[#10]

I had received a couple company level ones as a12B... Gay and meaningless

Posted: 12/9/2010 4:43:01 PM EDT

[#11]

Posted: 12/9/2010 7:13:20 PM EDT

[#12]

Your thread must be good luck because I got this today after you posted pics
Subordinate to the command in red

Posted: 12/9/2010 7:14:48 PM EDT

[#13]

Bullshit waste of money.

Posted: 12/9/2010 7:18:44 PM EDT

[#14]

Nancy Pelosi has her own coin she gives out.

No bullshit.

Posted: 12/9/2010 7:21:48 PM EDT

[#15]

Quoted:
Nancy Pelosi has her own coin she gives out.

No bullshit.

Posted: 12/9/2010 7:30:45 PM EDT

[#16]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Nancy Pelosi has her own coin she gives out.

No bullshit.

and

at the same time

Posted: 12/9/2010 7:46:48 PM EDT

[#17]

Nice, are they made here?

Posted: 12/9/2010 8:29:32 PM EDT

[#18]

Quoted:

Nice, are they made here?

I was about to joke "nah, they're not made here in the US; US challenge coins are made in china." Then I looked at your location.
No shit.

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