Design Ideas

Looking for some design ideas for your personalized item? Perhaps you are wondering just what we have engraved for other customers. 

Well look no further! This page will help give you an idea of many of the designs we have engraved for customers, shared here, with their consent.

The item people usually have most interest in and questions about is the specialty case also known as a coin "slab"

  

Space for each face of the case is limited. Sometimes less is more and it depends on your preference and the context of your particular situation.

Typically 2-3 insignia will fit well. Many choose to have their branch insignia and then a secondary insignia below it and then have it dressed with an insignia for the SM receiving the coin. For instance this could be their stripes for Army, Air Force, USMC or their rate insignia for USN or USCG personnel.

As you are probably aware, in the military community there are probably many thousands of potential combinations and insignia to use. They do not all play nice together, for instance, two long insignia to not fit well beside each other but may fit better stacked. I try to balance the text to not exceed the upper or lower boundaries of the particular insignia used.

Chief Anchors and Rate insignia can usually be placed near

the SMs rank and name.

Army insignia can be aligned in a variety of ways

Black to gold engraving with black leatherette 

Black to Silver Engraving with black leatherette

Clever mixing and matching of color options and orientation for a

truly stunning presentation.

These are very troublesome to get lined up but the result speaks for its self

This is a great place for a personal message and if there is room I can sometimes include a variety of insignia. The more text you want, the smaller it will be so please be reasonable and judicious when making a decision here when it comes to the amount of characters. 100 or more is probably overdoing it.

You can pick between an engraving on wood or an engraving on leatherette of a variety of colors for the rear. Wood engraving will in general offer more detail. The engraved leatherette is great for small amounts of text and insignia.

 

We can also do most Branch Insignia as well, like these Army branch Insignia

Here are some USN examples 

Rank, Insignia, Crests and Badges