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Table of Contents   Pinned for Spooky Season: Why Halloween Lapel Pins Are Having Their Moment At the end of a church parking lot, on the last Saturday of October, there will be a folding table with a bowl of candy on one end and a small dish of enamel pins on the other. The

Table of Contents   Trick, Treat, and Metal: Inside the Halloween Challenge Coin Craze It happens at the merch tent, usually around 9:50 p.m., right after the last hayride of the night comes back in. A family of four is standing at a folding table under a string of orange lights. The kid — maybe

Table of Contents   Jack-o’ Lantern to Enamel: Translating Halloween Artwork Into Metal The file she sent was genuinely good. A jack-o’-lantern grinning in the dark, orange light bleeding out of the carved eyes into the night around them, a curl of smoke, a bat crossing the moon, and “HAPPY HALLOWEEN” in a spidery blackletter

Table of Contents   Trick-or-Treat for Grown-Ups: Why Adult Halloween Parties Now Have Coins It happens around 10:40 p.m. — late enough that the playlist has looped twice, early enough that nobody has called a ride yet. The host, dressed implausibly well as a 1970s game show host, taps a spoon against a glass and

Table of Contents   Christmas Pins for Teams: The Low-Cost Morale Boost HR Keeps Reordering The first year she ordered 300. The second year, 480. The third year she ordered 600 — and added a second design, because people who had missed the first run asked for it, and because the folks who got one

Table of Contents   The Ornament That Fits in Your Pocket: Christmas Coin Designs Every December, millions of Americans open the same box. It lives in a garage or the back of a closet, and it is never quite the right size. Inside is a decade of small, fragile decisions: the plastic ball from a

Table of Contents   Trick, Treat, and Metal: Why Halloween Challenge Coins Are 2026’s Newest Tradition Somewhere around 7:40 p.m. on the last Saturday of October, a kid in a dinosaur costume is going to reach into a plastic pumpkin bowl on a stranger’s porch and pull out something unexpected. Not a fun-size bar. Not

Table of Contents   After the Siren: How Fire Prevention Week Turned Lapel Pins Into a Public Safety Tool The siren is the part of the fire service anyone can picture. Truck rolling, lights strobing, neighbors watching from sidewalk. Loud, dramatic, and almost always somebody else’s story. The work that follows is quieter, longer, and

Table of Contents   Chief’s Last Coin: Designing Retirement Tokens for Fire, Police, and EMS Legends There is a moment every chief dreads and quietly looks forward to in equal measure. The moment the bag comes down from the locker, the name tape gets cut off, the boots get polished one last time, and the

Table of Contents   Mile 26.2, Metal in Hand: The Marathon Finisher Coin Movement On the first Sunday of November, more than 50,000 runners will cross the finish line of the TCS New York City Marathon. Every one of them will receive the same thing: a large, glittering medal on a ribbon. But scroll through

Table of Contents   Semper Fi at 251: The USMC Birthday Coin Tradition Explained for New Buyers Every year on November 10th, something remarkable happens. In banquet halls in San Diego and Okinawa, at forward operating bases where the celebration is a cake ration under fluorescent lights, at Marine Corps League detachments in small towns

Table of Contents   The Honor Guard Coin: Restoring Pride in Funeral & Ceremonial Detail Picture the scene. A cold morning at a cemetery. Rows of graves, a tent set up over the family, chairs filled with people in dark coats. And standing at the back, perfectly still, six people in dress uniforms and white