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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;debordj, post: 836035, member: 23344&quot;]<b>My Navy Challenge Coins</b></p><p><br /></p><p>Great thread.&nbsp; I am not really a collector of challenge coins, but as a 16 year career military officer, Navy Commander, I have started to collect quite a few over the past years.&nbsp; Challenge coins have only become popular in the Navy in the last 6-8 years, but have taken off like gang-busters.</p><p><br /></p><p>I got my first coin in 2002 for winning a petroleum management award...DOD, not Navy.&nbsp; First the ships started to get them and give them out and then seems &quot;events&quot; are giving them as tokens.&nbsp; I have seen bottle opener ones, ones shaped like dog tags and people are now trying to design more unique coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>Just before my Grandfather died, he gave me some coins and that got me started into coin collecting and I really wished I had the background on them.&nbsp; So I decided that I would write how I came to acquire the challenge coins so someday my Sons would know a little about them.&nbsp; Put them in 3.5 x 3.5 flips and wrote on back how I got them.&nbsp; Here are some pictures of my total book and will give closer pictures of single coins that look cool.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://s268.photobucket.com/albums/jj40/heatshea/Coin%20Scan/?action=view&amp;current=737.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://s268.photobucket.com/albums/jj40/heatshea/Coin%20Scan/?action=view&amp;current=737.jpg" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://i268.photobucket.com/albums/jj40/heatshea/Coin%20Scan/th_737.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p><p><a href="http://s268.photobucket.com/albums/jj40/heatshea/Coin%20Scan/?action=view&amp;current=738.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://s268.photobucket.com/albums/jj40/heatshea/Coin%20Scan/?action=view&amp;current=738.jpg" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://i268.photobucket.com/albums/jj40/heatshea/Coin%20Scan/th_738.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p><p><a href="http://s268.photobucket.com/albums/jj40/heatshea/Coin%20Scan/?action=view&amp;current=739.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://s268.photobucket.com/albums/jj40/heatshea/Coin%20Scan/?action=view&amp;current=739.jpg" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://i268.photobucket.com/albums/jj40/heatshea/Coin%20Scan/th_739.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p><p><a href="http://s268.photobucket.com/albums/jj40/heatshea/Coin%20Scan/?action=view&amp;current=740.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://s268.photobucket.com/albums/jj40/heatshea/Coin%20Scan/?action=view&amp;current=740.jpg" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://i268.photobucket.com/albums/jj40/heatshea/Coin%20Scan/th_740.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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