About Us

The History of U.S. Challenge Coins

We opened our doors originally as Happy Dog Online Military Collectibles featuring military patches back in 2000. Things were going great through website and eBay sales. We wanted to expand and make room for much more. On February 14th, 2006 we switched our site to Military Challenge Coin .net, losing the HD Online forever. Our first site with the new name and look was purely HTML and nothing dynamic. We did very well to start off as we moved into coins along with our continued growing inventory.

Military Challenge Coin .net changed its look forever in August of 2006 going to a very dynamic website to allow for a shopping cart, articles, contributors, forum, Wiki, auctions, and much more. We were by far one of the few first sites to start from the beginning of the online craze in 2000. We are still creating and representing the industry of military collectibles.

I needed to focus and create something special in the niche of challenge coins. So it lead me to brainstorm about having a place collectors can freely come to engage in an open land with lots of features to enjoy at no cost to them. Military Challenge Coin .net Forum was born! The first truly full featured forum the hobby has seen that serves all kinds of collectors. The forum was a great addition without a doubt and helped gain momentum in the collecting world. We couldn’t stop with just a forum though.  Articles from contributors began to flow, and the store got bigger and bigger.

For several months Adam had begun using his graphic design skill to design challenge coins. He was terrible at it at first but schooling really helped. A few members started encouraging me to offer custom coins services to the site. I didn’t want just another service you could get anywhere. With my competitive edge, we opened our new service on January 7, 2007. I needed to be #1, but perhaps not #1 in quantity, but at least in everything else.

I did something no one has ever done before; I offered my custom coin service at no charge except whatever the factory charged me. Designing was free, the service was free, and everybody benefited. This model may be copied but it will never be the same. No matter who tells you what, I would put my best design up against anyone in the industry to prove my quality and that statement still rings with all the customers around the world that have decided to try the new service out.

Military Challenge Coin .net has been a first in many areas from collector’s views in articles, free custom coin jobs, challenge coin contests, coin database of all the coins around the world, to challenge coin blogging with industry professionals. With so many firsts in the industry, it might be hard to stop developing and taking this hobby to a new place in the future.

September 2007 changed everything. We were extorted from our webhost and we lost 25 websites. Our top positions in Google were gone. Everything was gone overnight. So with this devastating news U.S. Challenge Coins, LLC was born on October 4th, 2007. Since then we have rose to the top again in Google beating out 99.9% of all challenge coin competitors. We have earned our position again as one of the most popular challenge coin destinations on the internet. We grew from Adam's $20 bill worth of purchases to a multi-national company in a matter of 5 years. No other company can boast that and to top it all off, U.S. Challenge Coins is a fine group of retired and active U.S. Military Members.

About Us

Now that you have some history of us let's talk about us. We are staffed with some of the finest people around. Some are U.S. Air Force, Army, and even Navy. We are proud of our roots and that dedication has transpired to what you see today on the web. We are mainly a challenge coin company but we also donate back to the community a lot. It's a cornerstone for us. We donate to the Armed Forces, and we get our and support our local events. We are a very interactive company on and offline.

Established since 2007 as U.S. Challenge Coins, LLC we are a growing company that has increased its annual income almost 400% per year since the beginning. We are not an overnight company. We are here for the long haul and couldn't be happier to work for you and with you on your projects. We are available in many ways anytime you need us. Just check the contact page for your preferred method.