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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 3082468, member: 57463&quot;]I do not know when the enameled varieties began, but I associate them with casino tokens because the techniques are similar. Back in 1977, challenge coins were real coins.&nbsp; If you had the 1964 1-dong after it was demonetized, then it meant that you had been &quot;in country&quot; before (almost) everyone else. I think that even as late as Gulf War I, when the Iraqi 1-dinar was the sought after souvenir, the enameled ones were seldom seen.&nbsp; I would like to know more history about them.</p><p><br /></p><p>There was a Challenge Coin Collectors Club for a few years. Read about Jesse Medford&#039;s efforts here:</p><p><a href="https://www.challengecoinsltd.com/iraq-war-veteran-establishes-first-official-challenge-coin-association" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.challengecoinsltd.com/iraq-war-veteran-establishes-first-official-challenge-coin-association" rel="nofollow">https://www.challengecoinsltd.com/iraq-war-veteran-establishes-first-official-challenge-coin-association</a></p><p>(Note that this was from 2012. ... and actually, it opens up another thread topic on Gambling Tokens. From that article: &quot;In fact, professional poker players now use challenge coins as cardholders.&quot; That is an old, old tradition. If you know the novels of Jane Austen, then you know about playing whist for &quot;fish.&quot;&nbsp; Fish were mother-of-pearl gambling tokens with the family crest on them. That was how one man could remind another that &quot;I am holding your markers for fifty pounds.&quot; I will see about scanning the &quot;fish&quot; that I bought for my wife. But that all goes into another topic thread.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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