CCFD · Las Vegas Fire & Rescue · Henderson · North Las Vegas
COINS FOR THE
FIRE HOUSES
Fire coins in this valley belong to the house, not the department. A station coin means the station — the number, the rig, the crew, and usually a joke that would need explaining to anyone who has not worked there. That is why almost every order we take is for fifty coins rather than five hundred.
STATION AND COMPANY COINS
The station number is nearly always the strongest element on the coin, and it should be. Large numerals hold up at coin size better than almost anything else — they read from a distance, they survive wear, and they are the thing the coin is actually about.
What goes around them varies more than people expect. Engine companies, truck companies, rescue and hazmat all have their own identities within the same house, and a coin covering all of them usually ends up meaning less than one that picks a side. The rig itself is a common back-face subject and a difficult one: an engine in profile is long and detailed, and it needs either sculpted relief or a deliberately simplified silhouette to survive the shrink.
Probationary coins, retirement coins and anniversary coins are the three other standing traditions here, and each wants a different object. A probie coin is a carry coin. A retirement coin is a presentation piece — larger, higher finish, boxed. An anniversary coin is somewhere in between and usually dated, which makes the proof stage the important one.
FOUR DEPARTMENTS, ONE VALLEY
Clark County Fire, Las Vegas Fire & Rescue, Henderson and North Las Vegas all run separately and all have houses that order their own coins. We treat them the same way: the order is the station's, the design conversation is with the people who will carry it, and the quote is one number with the tooling already in it.
Every one of those addresses is inside the delivery radius, so nothing ships. Local delivery explains how the hand-off works.
MEMORIAL AND LINE-OF-DUTY COINS
These are handled differently from everything else on this page. They carry a name and a date, they are usually ordered under time pressure, and there is no acceptable margin for error. We proof them twice, we ask for the spelling and the dates in writing from whoever is responsible rather than from whoever placed the order, and we will tell you plainly if a service date is not reachable rather than taking the order and apologising afterwards.
STARTING ONE
Lay it out yourself in the designer, or describe it through the quote form and we will draw it. More on firefighter coin traditions generally is on the firefighter challenge coins page.
Asked and answered
What people here ask first
- We want a coin for one station, not the whole department. Is that too small?
- No, and it is the most common fire order we take. A station with three shifts and thirty people needs about fifty coins, not five hundred. Twenty-five is our floor. We will quote what you asked for and show you what stepping up costs on the same coin, because on short runs the fixed costs — the mold, the freight — dominate and the step is often smaller than people assume.
- Can the coin be shaped like a Maltese cross?
- Yes, and it costs the same as a round coin — the die is cut to whatever outline you give it. The one thing worth checking at the proof is the points: a cross with fine points can feel sharp in a pocket, and softening them slightly costs nothing if it is decided before the mold rather than after.
- What finish holds up in a fire house?
- Hard enamel. It is polished flat and level with the metal, so there is nothing standing proud to wear off. Soft enamel is the traditional look — the recessed, textured finish — and it does wear at the high points, which some crews consider the coin earning its keep. If it is going to live in a turnout pocket, hard enamel is the more durable choice.
- How long does it take?
- About two to three weeks in production once you approve the proof, and a proof comes back inside 24 hours of the spec being settled. Inside the valley there is no shipping leg at the end — we deliver. If you have a date, a retirement or a station anniversary, put it on the quote first and we will tell you honestly whether it is a standard job or a rush.
Elsewhere in the valley
Who else we build for here
- Nellis AFB
Squadron, wing and exercise coins for the units at Nellis — including the ones that rotate through for Red Flag and leave with something to remember it by.
- Creech AFB
Coins for the remotely piloted aircraft community, whose deployments look nothing like anyone else's and whose coins tend to say so.
- Nevada National Guard
Drill-weekend timelines, unit funds rather than corporate budgets, and coins that have to survive a deployment and a civilian job at the same time.
- Nevada, statewide
Reno, Carson City, Fallon and the rural counties. Outside the delivery radius, so everything ships — which changes the timeline, not the coin.
- Las Vegas Metro Police
Area command, SWAT, K-9, Search and Rescue and academy class coins for the largest police department in Nevada.
- Casino & hospitality
Service anniversary, host and security team coins for the property recognition programmes that run all year on this valley's largest employers.
- Conventions & trade shows
Booth coins for a show with a fixed date. The deadline is the whole job, and delivery to your hotel or the convention centre is the reason it works.
Ordering inside the valley? We deliver locally — no carrier, no tracking number, no waiting on a truck.