Coins by Unit & Agency
Task Forces, Operations, and Officer Excellence
A tradition carried over from the military, now worn proudly across law enforcement.
A law enforcement challenge coin is often designed by a chief or commanding officer and awarded to officers for exceptional service. Task force and unit coins build camaraderie across departments, while operation coins commemorate a major bust or a mission carried out together. From a single patrol shift to a multi-agency federal task force, a custom coin turns that shared work into something an officer, deputy, or agent keeps for a career. Computer crime units and joint cyber task forces have their own design conventions — see cybersecurity challenge coins.
Corrections, Border Patrol, and Federal Investigators
The badges that don't wear a city patch still run the same coin traditions.
Corrections is one of our steadiest law enforcement audiences and one of the least served by generic coin makers. A correctional officer challenge coin usually carries the facility name and the state department of corrections seal, and it gets awarded the way a patrol coin does — academy graduation, promotion to sergeant, a decade inside, a retirement. Facilities also order them for CERT and SORT teams, K9 handlers, and transport units, where the coin marks a specialty assignment rather than a rank.
Border Patrol stations and sectors order coins for much the same reasons, with station and sector names, the agency seal, and horse patrol, BORTAC, or air and marine detail worked into the reverse. Federal investigative services — NCIS, OSI, CID, and the inspector general offices — tend toward restrained designs: agency seal on the front, office or field office on the back, antique silver or black nickel rather than full color, and often sequential numbering so each coin belongs to a specific agent.
Campus and university police sit in the same bracket. A school resource officer challenge coin usually pairs the department's badge with the school seal or mascot, and departments hand them out at the end of a school year, after a safety program, or to the officers assigned to a particular campus. District-wide orders tend to run one design with the department seal and a reverse that changes per school.
All of them carry the same considerations as any other agency order: exact seal reproduction, a finish that holds up to being carried daily, and quantity breaks that cover a whole facility, sector, or district rather than one shift. Send us the seal and the roster count and we'll build the proof around it.
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Everything You Need to Know
Common questions from the departments and agencies we work with. Still have questions? Our team is a phone call away.
Do you make coins for police, sheriff, and federal agencies?
Can you recreate our department badge or unit insignia?
Absolutely. Send us your badge, patch, seal, or unit insignia — a photo or rough sketch is plenty — and our art team recreates it as a coin, matching shapes, emblems, and colors. You’ll get a free digital proof and unlimited revisions until it’s exactly right before anything is produced.
What's the minimum order for a unit or task force?
Custom coins start at a 50-coin minimum, so a single unit, squad, or task force can order without committing to a huge run. Per-coin pricing improves as the quantity goes up, so larger department orders land in a better price tier.
Can you match our department's colors and the thin blue line?
Yes. We use Pantone (PMS) color matching, so department colors, agency blues, and the thin blue line come out exactly as intended. Share your colors with your sales rep and we’ll match them on the finished coin.
Do departments get a price break for larger orders?
Yes. Per-coin pricing drops as quantity goes up, so department-wide and multi-unit orders land in a better tier than a small run. Compare volume pricing on our challenge coin pricing page.