US Challenge Coin .com and D.B. Sweeney teamed up to do a challenge coin for his new movie he produced and directed called Two Tickets to Paradise starring John C. McGinley, D.B. Sweeney, Paul Hipp’s, Ed Harris, Moira Kelly, and many more of Hollywood’s stars in a comedy film. This coin is special in many ways as it is the first coin put out by USCC.com that represents Hollywood and the military, one of Hollywood’s finest went out of his way to make a coin to present to the sailors and soldiers, and that we can debut this coin along with the new movie.

Now beyond the formalities, as the Owner and CEO of US Challenge Coins. com  it is an esteem pleasure to do projects like this for someone who is not only famous on the big screen but more importantly, supports the troops in ways like this. I received a phone call from D.B. late one night and he wanted the low down on what it was going to take to get 1,000 coins in his hands. I told him simple enough that it was $2,000 to get that show on the road, and we had a deal. Over the next 3 days we knocked out some great artwork which you will notice the car on the one side is what the guys drove in the movie.

All I can say is D.B. was a great down to earth guy to work with on getting this done. I think he was expecting some high price quote from me but when I told him we weren’t like other companies he was pretty blown away. (See at US Challenge Coins. com we don’t really care what you do, and who you are…we just want to get the job done without emptying your wallet. - a shameless plug) I have to be honest for a minute and give a personal insight to this. I actually had no idea who D.B. Sweeney is because I don’t really watch much TV, or movies. In fact I really don’t know many people by name, just by face since they all use screen names in all the movies, who can possibly remember all of them?

Anyways, we completed the project like normal, about 8 days and over-nighted the coins straight to D.B.’s hands so he could get on the next flight out to Hawaii with the coins to hand out to the men and women stationed there. He told me he loved the coins and of course it felt nice to get another great coin finished and the end result to be that positive. Once I could breathe again (every order is not done till they are happy with the coin, so I seem to sweat it out till I have the “its great!” from the customer) I relaxed in my computer chair and was relieved.

After all was said and done I decided to do what I do best, surf the internet. I googled D.B. Sweeney and found the first page to be pretty loaded with information and then it clicked who he was. I thought it was the coolest thing and I emailed him to say thanks and that I just found out who he was…not in a rude way, I just didn’t know. This was the first coin out of Hollywood we have done. Sure we do the top brass’s coins and everyone in between but this was cool in the fact it has spread out like it has.

Finally, D.B. if you ever read my blog and see this I just want you to know that me and all the guys thank you for what you did in making this and giving the coins to the men and women serving. I think this is a very awesome gesture. Also thanks for being a decent guy and if you’re ever in Augusta, GA I will buy you a beer. Although I would be afraid of being mauled while everyone is trying to grab an autograph. As for everyone else, go out and support this actor and what he is doing! Two Tickets to Paradise here I come!