Casino, resort & hospitality
RECOGNITION COINS
FOR THE PROPERTIES
The valley's largest employers run recognition programmes at a scale most companies never touch — service anniversaries by the hundred, host and VIP pieces, security and surveillance team awards. A coin works here for the same reason it works in a squadron: it is the one award nobody throws away.
A PROGRAMME, NOT AN ORDER
The difference between corporate coin work and everything else on this site is repetition. A unit orders a coin once and lives with it for years. A recognition programme orders the same coin every quarter, and the thing that matters is not the first order — it is what the tenth one costs and whether it still matches the first.
That has one concrete consequence worth planning around. Tooling is a one-time cost per design: the mold is cut once, and every reorder of that design skips it. We quote both numbers — the first order with tooling, and the reorder without — precisely because on a programme the second figure is the one you will actually live with.
The corollary is that design churn is expensive in a way it is not for anyone else. Changing the coin means a new mold. A programme that settles its design once and varies only the year marker gets far more out of the same money than one that redesigns annually.
SERVICE ANNIVERSARY SETS
The common structure is one design across five, ten, fifteen, twenty and twenty-five years, differentiated by the numeral and usually by the finish — silver for the early markers, gold and then dual plating higher up. It reads as a progression on a shelf, which is the point, and it means someone at twenty years is holding something visibly different from what they got at five.
Each marker is its own die, so the tooling is per year rather than per programme. Against a run of several hundred coins per marker that is a small share of the total, and at three hundred pieces and over the mold fee comes off entirely — which for a programme this size usually means it never appears at all.
HOST, SECURITY AND DEPARTMENT PIECES
Host and VIP coins are a different object again — given to guests rather than staff, so they are presentation pieces first. Heavier stock, higher finish, and packaging that matches: a velvet box rather than a poly bag, which sounds like a detail and is most of the impression.
Security and surveillance teams tend to want the opposite. Those are carry coins, and the design conventions look far more like the law-enforcement work on the Metro page than like anything else a property orders.
GETTING STARTED
If you are scoping a programme rather than placing an order, the quote form will get you costed at several quantities in one pass — the useful thing at this stage is the shape of the curve, not a single number. Local delivery covers the hand-off to a property.
Asked and answered
What people here ask first
- We run recognition all year. Do we have to pay for the mold every time?
- No. The mold is a one-time tooling cost for a given design. Once it exists, reorders of the same coin skip it entirely and the reorder price is lower than the first order — that is why we show both figures on a quote rather than only the first-order total. Keep the design stable and the mold is a cost you pay once.
- Can we do one design with different year markers?
- Yes, and it is the standard way service-anniversary programmes are run. Each year is a separate die, so five year-markers is five molds — but they are struck from the same artwork, so the design work happens once and the coins are unmistakably a set. The alternative, one design with the year left off and engraved later, is cheaper up front and looks it.
- Who signs off, and how long does that usually add?
- Brand and legal, in our experience, and it is the part worth building time in for. A property's mark on a coin generally needs someone in marketing to approve how it is used at that size. We issue a proof inside 24 hours of the spec being settled, so the proof is available early enough to circulate — production is two to three weeks after it comes back approved.
- Can you deliver to a property rather than a mailing address?
- Yes. Valley orders are delivered by hand, and a resort's receiving or a department office is a normal destination. It avoids the situation where a box of recognition awards is sitting in a carrier's hub the week they are meant to be presented.
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.
- Clark County Fire
Station and company coins for CCFD, Las Vegas Fire & Rescue, Henderson and North Las Vegas — where the coin belongs to the house, not the department.
- 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.