Bilbee, thanks.

It is looking more like $5 a coin if I go for 100 coins. $2.50 to $3.00 per coin plus about $200 setup on the first order, which works out to another $2 or so per coin. Add say $4 postage to get it to you, and you've got $5 a coin handed to you, add postage and it's $10 if it's a single coin mailed. I could mail 10 coins for the same price as one. Plus, everybody pays at least a buck over the final nuts cost to help cover the cost of the freebies we're gonna give to the right people. (Like Joe Galloway, who just gave me permission to use "God's Own Lunatics.") Not bad.

Here's what I'm thinking now:

BRONZE COIN. Raised edge with the text down into it and filled.

OBVERSE (FRONT)

119TH ASSAULT HELICOPTER CO. (in the raised edge, big, centered around the top)
GATOR SLICKS (smaller, inside a center ring)
with the "Gator" shield in color in the center
CAMP HOLLOWAY (also small, inside the ring)
GOD’S OWN LUNATICS (in the raised edge, big, centered at the bottom)

REVERSE

(Center “VIETNAM” at top, “PLEIKU” at bottom..)

LAOS - VIETNAM - CAMBODIA (in the raised edge, centered at the top)
CROC GUNS (again, smaller and inside the ring)
with the "CROC" shield in color in the center
1962 – 1970 (inside the ring)
AN KHE - PLEIKU - DAK TO (in the raised edge, centered at the bottom)

Need more ideas, this is working. C'mon, send 'em in. We've at least got slicks and guns covered, which is progress. No more screwing around. As soon as this looks like it might work, I'm pulling the trigger, or we'll never get it done.

As for any former Crocs who want the front of the coin, just turn yours over and call it the front.

Seriously, I need a good scan of a Croc patch in good condition against a white background or, even better, line art of a Croc patch. If anybody can get me a .jpg image, it would make things much easier.

Bob