What is the Challenge Coin Museum?

The Challenge Coin Museum is a place for you to show off your challenge coin collection. Once your account is approved, you will be able to upload pictures of your coins, along with their name and more information about them.

Coin check rules

There is no one specific set of rules for coin checks, but the most common rules are as follows

1. Initiating a “coin check” consists of a “challenge” and a “response.” If you are the “challenger,” then you initiate a “coin check” by slamming your challenge coin onto a table or bar. All other coin holders must then “respond” by drawing their coins out and slamming them down as well or otherwise present their own challenge coins for public view.ing an audible noise. The challenger can also verbally initiate a challenge by stating, "Coin Check" or a similar phrase.

   1. Another acceptable form of challenge is holding your coin aloft and shouting “coin check” or another verbal form of communicating your intent to challenge.

   2. Depending on the circumstances, it is also acceptable to insistently tap your coin upon a surface or otherwise make it audibly known you are initiating a challenge.

   3. Coin checks are generally permitted anytime, anywhere, and to anyone present. 

   4. A and B of this rule may be preferable if you wish to remain in the good graces of the bar owner or any owners of the surrounding table surfaces.

2. Failing to respond to a “coin check” when challenged carries a penalty. Any coin holder who fails to respond to a challenge with their own coin must buy a round of drinks to everyone who successfully responded.

   1. A penalty does not necessarily need to be a drink. It can take the form of any mutually agreed upon service or item of consumption. Please refer to your own group’s specific rules on the matter.

   2. The other coin holders are free to mock you mercilessly. You may feel appropriate shame and remorse for negligence at will.

   3. Participants are allowed a single “freebie” if they genuinely did not know the rules prior to a challenge. It is the responsibility of all other participants to fully explain the rules.

   4. Participants are allowed to take up to, but no more than, three steps away from their position at the time of the initial challenge to retrieve their coin.

3. Should every coin holder present successfully respond, then the challenger is penalized. If you issue a challenge and all coin holders respond, then you must honor your challenge by purchasing a round of drink to all participants. A and B from item number 2 apply here as well.

4. A challenge may be issued at any time or place. So long as there are at least two coin holders in immediate proximity to each other, a challenge may be issued at any time or place.

   1. Issuing a challenge in the middle of a (solemn) funeral, emergency, or shower officially makes you a dick, and the rules of the “coin check” may or may not be honored. Locker rooms are fair game.

5. Losing, misplacing, or gifting away your challenge coin does not grant immunity. Until your coin is replaced, you’re likely responsible for drinks whenever a “coin check” is issued.

   1. It is highly recommended you have your challenge coin replaced before word spreads you are coinless.