We can see Terry Stoffel pull out a handful of shiny medals from his desk drawer and start spreading them on the table.

Terry Stowefer tells us that every medal has a story that he calls these coins as a challenge coin
Some of these challenge coins come from other law enforcement agencies, including local, state and federal agencies, a team of couples from political parties. The police K-9, including the HCSPD dog Zeek, has also taken action.

Stoffel said that for the most long time, the most common place to challenge coins is the army. Because the military and police to them as a reward, the holder can take a coin to the cafeteria to buy a drink.

Outside the army, Stofel said it was a body that communicated back and forth, trying to collect things ... I knew a lot of people who collected them.

Ten years ago, coins began to pop, but they were already longer than that.

Steve said that when he served as police chief, he had intermittently seen them, and Steve worked for eight years in the Huntington police chief and worked in the sheriff's department.

Seven years ago, when he became a sergeant, Stoffel began collecting coins. At that time, he accumulated 55 to 60 medals.
He said that when he met people, he just got those that challenged the coins. He first came from the Indiana Security Association. This is the first meeting I have ever been, and each of them has passed a meeting.

He explained that each department or officer had designed a unique coin.

"I decided to put the American flag there," said Stowler.

One side has the shape of the star Huntington County Sheriff Department badge, the other side is the image of Huntington County Court.

"I decided to show our court because I thought it was a very prestigious structure," he said.

A coin of the Grant County agency shows the county court.

Stowler says the coin is designed to have a lot of neatly designed art.

A coin from Pierce Fort, Florida has a pirate image, and a dog's coin-like coin is like a paw.

The shape of the other coin is the police hat, and the Boston police coin is similar to a piece of silver.
Veterans of foreign wars are equipped with opener.

A county on the Upper Peninsula of Michigan has a coin with a lighthouse and water.

Huntington County Sheriff Director Zucker has his own image on his coin.

Stoffel's collection also includes the Democratic coins and another coin of the Republican Party. Indiana Police Coin Memorial 2012 Super Bowl in Indianapolis. Stoffel's additional coins come from Texas and Georgia.

In addition to using coins as promotional items, Stoffel and other officers sometimes use them as an incentive tool to give someone a coin and challenge them to overcome the obstacles in his or her life.

Stofer said he often gave money to the children.

Stofer said he would challenge the children to change their way of life, and if they found themselves slipping, he asked them to seize the coin and call him and he came to them.

While the collection is now in Stoffel's desk drawer, and he plans to show them more formally to show more people.

Stoffel said that in the end he would get a coin that could show, while both sides of the board would leave him so that future sheriffs could join them.