http://www.cgcoins.net Serving the collectors that protect our shores Wed, 01 Jun 2011 15:27:32 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.cgcoins.net/coast-guard-challenge-coins/station-sandy-hook-%e2%80%93-united-states-coast-guard-auxiliary-division-2/ http://www.cgcoins.net/coast-guard-challenge-coins/station-sandy-hook-%e2%80%93-united-states-coast-guard-auxiliary-division-2/#comments Wed, 01 Jun 2011 15:27:32 +0000 militaryone http://www.cgcoins.net/?p=29 Station Sandy Hook is one of the most popular life – saving stations and one of the original ones. It was built in 1848 one – half mile south of point of Hook at a site on bay side. This site was change many times as the years passed by because of the change in [...]]]> http://www.cgcoins.net/coast-guard-challenge-coins/station-sandy-hook-%e2%80%93-united-states-coast-guard-auxiliary-division-2/feed/ 0 http://www.cgcoins.net/coast-guard-challenge-coins/uscg-station-wrightsville-beach-%e2%80%93-always-ready-challenge-coin/ http://www.cgcoins.net/coast-guard-challenge-coins/uscg-station-wrightsville-beach-%e2%80%93-always-ready-challenge-coin/#comments Fri, 27 May 2011 15:24:15 +0000 militaryone http://www.cgcoins.net/?p=24 A 1.5″ round challenge coin was recently minted out exclusively by U.S. Challenge Coins. This coin called the USCG Wrightsville Beach Station has an antique finish with raised and painted details on both sides of the coin. It has a rope edging without epoxy. This USCG Wrightsville Beach Station token has its roots in piracy [...]]]> http://www.cgcoins.net/coast-guard-challenge-coins/uscg-station-wrightsville-beach-%e2%80%93-always-ready-challenge-coin/feed/ 0 http://www.cgcoins.net/coast-guard-challenge-coins/mesd-231-psu-312-challenge-coin/ http://www.cgcoins.net/coast-guard-challenge-coins/mesd-231-psu-312-challenge-coin/#comments Fri, 27 May 2011 15:17:52 +0000 militaryone http://www.cgcoins.net/?p=21 The Maritime Expeditionary Security Detachment 231 is a naval unit of the United States Navy while Port Security Unit 312 is a unit of the Deployable Operation Group. The Navy and the Coast Guard had been working together in joint forces and goes as far back as the 18th century. The United States Coast Guard [...]]]> http://www.cgcoins.net/coast-guard-challenge-coins/mesd-231-psu-312-challenge-coin/feed/ 0 http://www.cgcoins.net/coast-guard-challenge-coins/guardians-of-the-eerie-islands-challenge-coin/ http://www.cgcoins.net/coast-guard-challenge-coins/guardians-of-the-eerie-islands-challenge-coin/#comments Fri, 27 May 2011 15:12:22 +0000 militaryone http://www.cgcoins.net/?p=18 The Marblehead Lifeboat Station was created on June 20, 1874. It is located on the shore of Lake Erie in Northern Ohio and officially opened on September 1876 with Lucien M. Clemons being its first keeper. A new station was built by the year 1921 and plans of enlarging the facilities are going on in [...]]]> http://www.cgcoins.net/coast-guard-challenge-coins/guardians-of-the-eerie-islands-challenge-coin/feed/ 0 http://www.cgcoins.net/coast-guard-challenge-coins/15/ http://www.cgcoins.net/coast-guard-challenge-coins/15/#comments Fri, 27 May 2011 15:05:36 +0000 militaryone http://www.cgcoins.net/?p=15 Eagle is the seventh ship to bear the name in the long line of proud cutters dating back in 1792 that had continuous seagoing services. It was commissioned two years after the formation of the Revenue Marine the forefather of today’s United States Coast Guard. It was built in 1936 by the Blohm & Voss [...]]]> http://www.cgcoins.net/coast-guard-challenge-coins/15/feed/ 0 http://www.cgcoins.net/site-news/coast-guard-challenge-coin-collecting/ http://www.cgcoins.net/site-news/coast-guard-challenge-coin-collecting/#comments Sun, 05 Oct 2008 03:50:03 +0000 admin http://www.cgcoins.net/?p=5 In challenge coin collecting we know there are special areas that people enjoy collecting in. Well it’s not often you can say an entire branch is collectible. With the Coast guard being a virtual unknown in coins it’s almost a no-brainer that any Coast guard coin would be a gotta have. We are here to [...]]]> http://www.cgcoins.net/site-news/coast-guard-challenge-coin-collecting/feed/ 0