MILITARY CHALLENGE COINS
FOR EVERY BRANCH
Custom challenge coins for every U.S. military branch — Navy, Army, Air Force, Marines, Coast Guard, and Space Force. Built by a retired Senior Chief who spent twenty-plus years in uniform.
BROWSE BY BRANCH
Branch-specific conventions for unit, command, deployment, and retirement coins — what each service traditionally does on its coins, what we build, and how to order yours.
NAVY CHALLENGE COINS
Ship's coins, squadron coins, sub coins, chiefs' mess and wardroom pieces. Built by a retired Navy Senior Chief who's carried his share.
View Navy Challenge Coins →ARMY CHALLENGE COINS
Unit identifier coins, battalion and brigade pieces, special operations, airborne, and divisional coins. We've built across the formation.
View Army Challenge Coins →AIR FORCE CHALLENGE COINS
Wing, squadron, group, and MAJCOM coins. Aircrew and ALO pieces. The Air Force tradition runs deep — we honor it.
View Air Force Challenge Coins →MARINE CHALLENGE COINS
MEU, BLT, MARSOC, recon, and barracks coins. Drill instructor and chief warrant officer commemoratives. Built with the gravitas Marines expect.
View Marine Challenge Coins →COAST GUARD CHALLENGE COINS
Cutter coins, sector coins, air station pieces, port-of-call commemoratives. The smaller service with a strong coin tradition.
View Coast Guard Challenge Coins →SPACE FORCE CHALLENGE COINS
Squadron and delta coins for the newest service. We're building the tradition with the units that are establishing it.
View Space Force Challenge Coins →EVERY BRANCH, EVERY TRADITION
Each U.S. military branch has its own conventions for what goes on a challenge coin. Navy ship's coins center the hull and motto with the commissioning date on the back. Army unit coins lead with the DUI (distinctive unit insignia) and the unit motto. Air Force pieces lean heavily on squadron patches and aircraft silhouettes. Marine Corps coins favor weight and gravitas — heavier stock, antique finishes, classic typography. Coast Guard coins often feature the service's distinctive racing stripe and a cutter or station identifier. Space Force, the newest branch, is still actively writing the playbook.
We've built coins for all six branches and we know the conventions — but we'll happily break them if that's the look you want. Pick your branch from the cards above for branch-specific design notes, convention reference, and the kind of coins your peers typically order.
WHY ORDER FROM A VETERAN-OWNED SHOP?
The founder is a retired Senior Chief (E-8) with twenty-plus years of Navy service. He's been on the receiving end of every kind of challenge coin — the great ones that still sit on the desk, the cheap ones that ended up in a drawer, and the missed-deadline deployment commemoratives that arrived after the ship was already home. The Coin Locker exists because he wanted to build the shop he wished he could have ordered from.
For procurement: most military orders flow through MWR funds, chiefs' messes, wardrooms, or unit funds. We invoice in formats those funds accept and we register in SAM.gov when contracts need it. The buyer talks to the founder directly, not a sales rep.
DESIGN YOUR UNIT COIN ONLINE
Use the free online challenge coin designer to sketch your unit's coin in about 60 seconds. Pick the shape, drop in your unit patch or upload your art, set the plating to match the tradition. Submit when you're ready — refined production proof inside 24 hours, unlimited free revisions, no payment until you approve the final art. Browse the gallery of recent military projects for inspiration, or read our military procurement and ordering guide if you're handling the buy.
READY TO START?
Build your unit, command, or deployment coin in the free online designer or send a quote with whatever you have.