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Bronze 1 oz challenge coins, what to do with them?
« on: January 24, 2012, 01:27:10 AM »
For several years, many years ago, some buddys and I made a new challenge coin for our unit each year.

The unit went to Illinois and there's zero interest in the 40 or so coins I have left.

I asked at my local precious metal's place (that made the coins) and they said bronze has no value.  I thought it was mostly copper?

Anyway, aside from making arrowheads (don't laugh, it's all I could think of, other than a Grecian dagger if I ever learned to smelt) are they good for anything?

Have I asked this question here before?  Feels like I have.
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Re: Bronze 1 oz challenge coins, what to do with them?
« Reply #1 on: January 24, 2012, 03:33:40 AM »
What's your rank ? =D

I need one that's higher them a full-bird Colonel. lol
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Re: Bronze 1 oz challenge coins, what to do with them?
« Reply #2 on: January 24, 2012, 04:14:23 AM »
Quote from: AZtoy on January 24, 2012, 03:33:40 AM
What's your rank ? =D

I need one that's higher them a full-bird Colonel. lol

I have a two-star I know of and maybe a three-star at home. >:D
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Re: Bronze 1 oz challenge coins, what to do with them?
« Reply #3 on: January 24, 2012, 05:29:06 AM »
Cast them, ought to make a nice bullet.
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Re: Bronze 1 oz challenge coins, what to do with them?
« Reply #4 on: January 24, 2012, 07:41:41 AM »
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Re: Bronze 1 oz challenge coins, what to do with them?
« Reply #5 on: January 24, 2012, 08:23:54 AM »
traditonal sailors prefer bronze.  maybe you could decorate an old ship lamp and call it a collectable?
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Re: Bronze 1 oz challenge coins, what to do with them?
« Reply #6 on: January 24, 2012, 09:49:38 AM »
Commission a bronze dagger.
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Re: Bronze 1 oz challenge coins, what to do with them?
« Reply #7 on: January 24, 2012, 10:29:46 AM »
Make little "Xena Warrior Princess Chackrams" out of them, and sell them at ComicCon.
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Re: Bronze 1 oz challenge coins, what to do with them?
« Reply #8 on: January 24, 2012, 11:15:55 AM »
ebay them out for 99 cents a piece
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Re: Bronze 1 oz challenge coins, what to do with them?
« Reply #9 on: January 24, 2012, 11:17:36 AM »
Quote from: Harold Tuttle on January 24, 2012, 11:15:55 AM
ebay them out for 99 cents a piece

Don't forget the $10-$20 shipping fee.

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Re: Bronze 1 oz challenge coins, what to do with them?
« Reply #10 on: January 24, 2012, 11:20:29 AM »
Quote from: AZtoy on January 24, 2012, 03:33:40 AM
What's your rank ? =D

I need one that's higher them a full-bird Colonel. lol

I got out as a Sergeant of Marines, depending on the service that could be a rough equivalent to a Col.  =D

Chakrams it is!
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Re: Bronze 1 oz challenge coins, what to do with them?
« Reply #11 on: January 24, 2012, 12:09:21 PM »
Throw them at squids.  Profit???
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Re: Bronze 1 oz challenge coins, what to do with them?
« Reply #12 on: January 24, 2012, 12:49:01 PM »
I work with a former Commandant of the USArmy NCO Academy.  He has all of his in a nice shadow box.
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Re: Bronze 1 oz challenge coins, what to do with them?
« Reply #13 on: January 24, 2012, 01:13:46 PM »
Quote from: roo_ster on January 24, 2012, 09:49:38 AM
Commission a bronze dagger.

This. Make 'em into something, give them to kids, sell them on eBay, etc.

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Re: Bronze 1 oz challenge coins, what to do with them?
« Reply #14 on: January 24, 2012, 01:44:58 PM »
They're a neat keepsake.  Have them matte-framed and keep them.

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Re: Bronze 1 oz challenge coins, what to do with them?
« Reply #15 on: January 24, 2012, 01:54:51 PM »
Hey guys, what he is saying is that they are leftovers from the last batch they had made.  It isn't like they are 40 different coins.
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Re: Bronze 1 oz challenge coins, what to do with them?
« Reply #16 on: January 24, 2012, 01:56:56 PM »
Quote from: Brad Johnson on January 24, 2012, 01:44:58 PM
They're a neat keepsake.  Have them matte-framed and keep them.

Brad

One is a nice keepsake, it sounds like he has 40 duplicates.

Oops, wmenorr67 beat me to it.

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Re: Bronze 1 oz challenge coins, what to do with them?
« Reply #17 on: January 24, 2012, 01:58:49 PM »
Quote from: wmenorr67 on January 24, 2012, 01:54:51 PM
Hey guys, what he is saying is that they are leftovers from the last batch they had made.  It isn't like they are 40 different coins.


See if one of the guys from the unit is a sculptor.  Have him do something that would be meaningful to the unit, and do it in wax.  Have it cast using the bronze from the coins.  Figure out something thoughful to do with it... maybe donate it to a local veterans group or a military association.

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Re: Bronze 1 oz challenge coins, what to do with them?
« Reply #18 on: January 24, 2012, 03:27:13 PM »


they would fit nicely here
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Re: Bronze 1 oz challenge coins, what to do with them?
« Reply #19 on: January 24, 2012, 03:29:49 PM »
Quote from: JamisJockey on January 24, 2012, 12:09:21 PM
Throw them at squids.  Profit???

Pleasure???
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Re: Bronze 1 oz challenge coins, what to do with them?
« Reply #20 on: January 24, 2012, 03:53:50 PM »
Some years back when my company had its 100th anniversary, they commemorated the event by giving everyone . . . a rock. A piece of gravel. :facepalm:

What to do with them . . . ?

Many suggestions, some of them anatomically improbable . . . but one of the female scientists came up with the best idea of all - collect a lot of them and sculpt them into a fist with one finger raised. (Guess which finger.)

You might do the same with the leftover coins, and place the sculpture in front of a picture of BHO . . .  >:D
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Re: Bronze 1 oz challenge coins, what to do with them?
« Reply #21 on: January 24, 2012, 09:27:08 PM »
Got a picture of one?
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Re: Bronze 1 oz challenge coins, what to do with them?
« Reply #22 on: January 25, 2012, 06:01:39 AM »
Take them to the local gun show and sell them as "genuine SEEL challenge coins" to all the SEEL's who lost theirs while on a black-op mission.....

....sorry, Rev....I meant dark-green-op mission.....


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Re: Bronze 1 oz challenge coins, what to do with them?
« Reply #23 on: January 25, 2012, 07:10:59 PM »
Had to look up challenge coins.  Very interesting.  Especially since the Challenge Coin Association issues its own challenge coins:

http://challengecoinassociation.org/

They might find a use for yours, I guess.

I think I got one from the NRA a while back for something, but I'll have to look for it.
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Re: Bronze 1 oz challenge coins, what to do with them?
« Reply #24 on: January 25, 2012, 07:28:09 PM »
Quote from: seeker_two on January 25, 2012, 06:01:39 AM
Take them to the local gun show and sell them as "genuine SEEL challenge coins" to all the SEEL's who lost theirs while on a black-op mission.....

I was thinking something similar in that you might be able to sell them at a gun show or to a surplus store or something as military paraphernalia.  Which they are...
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