Challenge Coins

We are proud to be able to offer to you for sale for the first time in the history of Baen: challenge coins. (Note: About Challenge Coins)
Each coin is $15. Buy all 13 author coins, and the “I Read Baen’d Books” coin comes free. Shipping and handling is a flat rate of $15, $45 international, for up to 13 coins. Write to info@baen.com for rates on bulk orders.
These coins were designed by Jack Wylder with the active participation of the authors.
We are taking orders for the first pressing now. Delivery will be in approximately 4-6 weeks.
Each coin is $15. Buy all 13 author coins, the “I Read Baen’d Books” coin comes free.
Challenge Coin
Challenge Coin
Special Warfare Combat Leopard Division Challenge Coin
Challenge Coin
Challenge Coin
Warp Speed & The Quantum Connection Challenge Coin
Challenge Coin
I Read Baen’d Books Challenge Coin
Challenge Coin
Challenge Coin
Challenge Coin
Inauguration of President Moore Challenge Coin
Challenge Coin
A Desert Called Peace Challenge Coin
Challenge Coin
555th Mobile Infantry Unit Coin
Challenge Coin
Military Forces Freehold of Grainne Challenge Coin
Challenge Coin
Challenge Coin
Challenge Coin
SKU: CCB1
$195.00
Ebook/Print Books
Front: I Read Baen’d Books
Reverse: RIP Joe Buckley
All profits from this coin will go to support two charities founded, supported, and run by Baen readers: Operation Baen Bulk, which provides care packages for deployed service members, and Read Assist, a 501c3 company that serves our disabled readers. http://www.readassist.org/ Each coin is $15. Buy all 13 author coins, and the “I Read Baen’d Books” coin comes free. “I read Baened Books” was first used by Chris French. “Joe Buckley” used courtesy of Joe Buckley. Don’t forget to duck. See also The Many Deaths of Joe Buckley
$15.00
Front: Rabun Gap, Bun Bun
Reverse: Bite Me, Lizard Boy
This is the commemorative coin for the Battle of Rabun Gap, to be found in John Ringo's Legacy of the Aldenata series. (“Bun Bun” likeness used by permission of his creator, Pete Abrams, from the webcomic Sluggy Freelance)
$15.00
Front: Disce Pati.
Reverse: 555th Mobile Infantry: The Real Black Panthers
A unit coin from John Ringo’s Legacy of the Aldenata series
$15.00
Front: USS Des Moines, "Daisy Mae"
Reverse: Nail to the mast her holy flag, Set every threadbare sail, And give her to the god of storms, The lightning and the gale! — Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Ship’s coin from the Posleen Wars sequence of John Ringo’s Legacy of the Aldenata, from Yellow Eyes and The Tuloriad, by John Ringo & Tom Kratman.
$15.00
Front: USS Salem, "Sally"
Reverse: "Asphra'ang ochKessen ahi, olt phranga'ai"—Sarah Flowers Adams, "Nearer, My God, to Thee" (High Posleen version)
Ship's coin from the Posleen Wars sequence of John Ringo’s Legacy of the Aldenata, from Yellow Eyes and The Tuloriad, by John Ringo & Tom Kratman.
$15.00
Front: MOLON LABE: come & take them
Reverse: I’ll make my own goddamned lever. — Patricio Carrera
A personal coin from Tom Kratman's Carreraverse
$15.00
Front: Profile from a statue in Patricio and Linda Carrera's home garden, caption: Vindicta Somnum Malum Tranquilia
Reverse: I loved you, so I drew these tides of Men into my hands/And wrote my will across the Sky in stars. — T.E. Lawrence
From Tom Kratman's Carreraverse
$15.00
Front: Legionary Standard, Leg. IV
Reverse: The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious.—Marcus Aurelius
Legio IV unit coin from Timocratic Republic of Balboa’s armed forces, Tom Kratman's Carreraverse
$15.00
Front: Ripple Creek Security: Executive Protection Division
Reverse: Nothing Personal, It’s Just Business.
The coin of a mercenary company in Michael Z. Williamson’s Freehold universe, the sequence that begins with Better to Beg Forgiveness…
$15.00
Front: Inauguration of President Alexander Moore
Reverse: A.I. For Peace Now
The president’s personal event coin on his inauguration, from Travis S. Taylor's One Day on Mars series
$15.00
Front: President Alexander Moore 2384-2396
Reverse: There’s no such thing as a former Marine. SEMPER FIDELIS
A personal coin for a future president of the United States, as chronicled by Travis S. Taylor in the Tau Ceti Agenda series.
$15.00
Front: Warp Speed
Reverse: In Quantum We Are Connected
From Travis S. Taylor's Warp Speed and Quantum Connection.
$15.00