CUSTOM COIN OPTIONS
Unleash your creativity with traditional handcrafted techniques, premium materials and modern tools.
ENAMEL OPTIONS
Unlimited Enamel Colors for Custom Coins
We offer unlimited enamel color options for your custom coins—at no extra cost. Each shade is hand-mixed and precisely matched to the Pantone chart, ensuring your design is accurate, vibrant, and unforgettable.
Premium Enamel Finishes
Choose from a full range of enamel effects to elevate your coin design:
Glossy enamel – classic brilliance and shine
Matte enamel – modern, understated elegance
Translucent enamel – luminous depth with metallic details beneath
Special effects – glitter, pearl powder, or even real desert sand for a rare, distinctive finish
Hard Enamel vs. Soft Enamel Coins
Hard enamel: Smooth, polished surface for a refined, jewelry-like look.
Soft enamel: Textured depth with raised and recessed details for a classic, tactile finish.
Dye options: Color the raised areas with dyes as a unique alternative to plating.
Design Without Limits
Think of your coin as a canvas—bright, bold, and full of possibilities. Whether you’re after playful pops, dazzling effects, or sophisticated schemes, we make it easy to turn your ideas into something unforgettable!
UV PRINT
Turn Your Coins into a Masterpiece!
The traditional method of coloring a challenge coin relies on enamel paints. Because enamel takes time to cure and harden, it can only be applied to the recessed areas of the coin. To keep each color crisp and precise, every section of enamel must be separated by a raised metal border, which limits the complexity and detail of the design. While this method produces a classic look, it cannot easily accommodate intricate artwork or modern design elements.
When the design involves colors on raised or 3D areas of the coin, gradients, or photo-quality imagery, this is where the UV printer comes in. UV printing allows full-color designs to be applied directly to the surface of the coin, including curved or elevated areas. Unlike enamel, UV printing dries instantly under ultraviolet light, ensuring sharp, vibrant colors without the need for separating borders. This technology opens up new possibilities for intricate patterns, realistic textures, and complex artwork that traditional methods cannot achieve.
UV-printed coins also offer remarkable durability. The printed layer resists fading, scratching, and wear. Additionally, the precision of UV printing allows for extremely fine details, enabling logos, photographs, and even miniature text to be rendered with stunning clarity. By combining traditional craftsmanship with modern UV printing technology, you can transform a standard coin into a fully customized work of art.
What is the Difference Between Enamel Paint and UV Print?
Enamel Paint
- Base: Enamel paints are pigment-based, mixed with resin and hardeners. Once baked, the pigments bond into the recessed metal areas, creating a durable, glass-like surface.
Process: Applied into recessed areas of the coin (hard or soft enamel), then baked to harden.
Look and Feel: Extremely tough and scratch-resistant but limited to solid colors separated by metal lines.
Best For: Traditional challenge coins, solid-color designs, illustrations, and background colors.
UV Print Ink
- Base: UV printing uses liquid ink suspended in a polymer base. When exposed to ultraviolet light, the polymers cure instantly, hardening the ink on the surface of the coin.
Process: Digitally printed directly onto raised or recessed areas of the coin, layer by layer, then cured with UV light.
Look & Feel: Thick and vibrant, just like enamel paint. Resembles a painting on the coins.
Best For: Complex artwork, full-color photos, gradients, shades, and tiny details. Allows for photo-quality imagery.
METAL OPTIONS
Every Coin Tells a Story — Ours Begins with Metal
When you hold a challenge coin, you’re not just holding metal — you’re holding history, pride, and craftsmanship. At Boss Coins, we believe that story deserves the very best materials from the very first step.
It all begins with the base metal. Brass, zinc alloys, and iron give each coin its foundation, defining its weight, balance, and strength. From there, the plating metal transforms the coin into something extraordinary — the finish that gives it its shine, its durability, and its timeless character.
And here’s our promise: we use only pure metals.
Gold means real 24k gold.
Silver means .999 fine silver.
Copper means authentic copper, not an imitation.
But true quality doesn’t stop at materials. It’s also in the craftsmanship. The steel molds and the precision needles that carve every detail are just as important as the metals themselves. With the right tools — and the right hands — we can capture the fine lines and intricate details that make Boss Coins stand apart.
From the raw metal to the final polish, we’re obsessed with perfection. Every coin we create carries the Boss Coins promise: quality you can see, feel, and trust.
Boss Coins: Your Story, Our Craft!
"The right choice of metal separates a throwaway coin from one that's built to last."
PLATING OPTIONS
MOLD OPTIONS
3D Die-Casting Molds
A 3D die casting mold for challenge coins is the tool that shapes and defines custom coins with three-dimensional detail, used when clients want more sculpted and realistic designs than a stamped coin.
Design style: Has multiple levels of depth and contour, allowing shading effects and curved surfaces.
Depth: Variable; can create smooth gradients instead of just flat steps.
- Best for: Sculpted, rounded, and realistic lifelike imagery, portraits, landscapes, animals, or highly detailed emblems.
- Complexity: Requires advanced 3D sculpting, longer carving time, molten metal, and more advanced machinery.
2D Die-Striking Molds
Also referred to as stamping, the 2D mold die-striking technique for challenge coins creates designs with only two levels:
Raised areas → stand out (like outlines, text, or logos).
Recessed areas → sit lower (background or spaces between details).
- Depth: There’s no rounded or sculpted depth — just flat steps between high and low areas.
- Best for: Simple, clean artwork such as logos, text, illustrations, and cartoon-style landscapes or images.
- Complexity: Lower carving time than the 3D molds but allows for special techniques such as currency coin style finishes.
BASE METALS
Brass
Brass is mainly used for 2D coins, but it also allows for some discrete 3D details. It is die-struck cold using steel molds and takes its shape well under pressure. It’s heavy, durable, malleable, and holds the plating well, making it a perfect base metal for challenge coins.
Zinc-Alloy
A mixture of zinc and copper is melted and cast inside the 3D steel molds. Due to the higher zinc content, it is around 10% lighter than brass. It is mainly used for 3D coins or coins with complex custom edges or cut-outs that need to be cast and cannot be die-struck.
Iron
A harder metal that is prone to cracking and breaking steel molds under pressure, but has the advantage of being magnetic, so we reserve it for pieces that need to be attached to a magnet. Heavier but not as malleable as brass, so fine details don’t come out as clearly.
EDGE OPTIONS
Standard 2D Edges
Blade-Cut Edges
Custom 3D Edges
SPECIAL FEATURES
OTHER PRODUCTS
PACKAGING OPTIONS
PRICE LIST*
*Prices may vary according the design complexity and order quantity. Please contact us for a custom quote.
Enamel Options
Soft Enamel: check our Custom Coin Pricing page
Hard Enamel: 20 – 30% higher unit price than soft enamel
Glitter: $0.15 – $0.25 per coin
Glow in the Dark: $0.15 – $0.25 per coin
Pearl: $0.15 – $0.25 per coin
Matte: $0.15 – $0.25 per coin
Sand: $0.25 – $0.50 per coin
Translucent Soft Enamel: $0.15 per coin
Translucent Hard Enamel: 20% – 30% higher unit price
Plating Options
Single-Plating: included
24k gold and .999 silver: included
Antique Finishes: $0.30 per coin
Distressed Effect: $0.35 per coin
Dual-Plating: $0.70 – $1 per coin
Currency Style: $0.70 – $1 per coin
Black Dye or any other color: free
Black Dye + Other Metals: consult us for prices
Rainbow Plating: $50 set-up fee + $0.50 per coin
Edge Options
2D Edges: free
Blade Cut Edges: $0.35 – $0.50 per coin
3D Edges: the price of a 3D mold. No additional cost if the design already includes other 3D details.
Molds
For standard coin sizes ranging from 1.5″ to 3″:
2D molds: $100 – $250, depending on the size.
3D molds: $150 – $375, depending on the size.
Please get in touch with us for a custom quote.