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Challenge Coin Association

Type	Voluntary association
Founded	2006
Founder(s)	Jesse L. Medford
Headquarters	Concord, NC
Industry	Exonumia
Products	Challenge coins
Website	ChallengeCoinAssociation.org

Challenge Coin Association (CCA) is an exonumia organization of over 700 challenge coin collectors from all over the world. CCA was founded February 5, 2006 by Jesse L. Medford in Raynham, Massachusetts and is currently based in Concord, North Carolina. The association's mission is to bring collectors of challenge coins together to learn more about the hobby, and share stories of their favorite coins. [1]

[edit] Free membership includes

• Active message board discussion forums
• Weekly online chat sessions [2]
• Free advertising
• Member submitted online newsletters
• Link exchange for challenge coin stores [3]
• Networking for challenge coin custom designers, factories, mints, graders, buyers, sellers and traders

[edit] Club memberships

CCA is a member organization of:

• American Numismatic Association (Member# 3139290)

[edit] Presidents

• Jesse L. Medford, 2006 - Present

Challenge Coin Association Inaugural Coin Obverse

[edit] See also

• Airman's coin
• Challenge coin
• Challenge Coin Association Inaugural coin
• DVD's to the Desert
• Militaria
• Yankee Division We're Back challenge coin

[edit] References

• Eric Athas (August 2, 2007). "Iraq veteran sends DVDs to troops". MetroWest Daily News. http://www.metrowestdailynews.com/homepage/x652150189. 

• Michael E. Marotta (December 2007). "Take the Challenge". The Numismatist. http://challengecoinassociation.org/pg27Dec07Numismatist.pdf. 

• Melanie Cummings (July 8, 2008). "Challenge coins are like hotcakes at public school". Canadian Coin News. http://challengecoinassociation.org/misc/frankie.pdf. 

[edit] External links

• Challenge Coin Association official homepage

Numismatics portal

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