News — Medallion

You may have heard the term AA Chips or AA Medallions and wonder what the heck a person is referring to?  While not a direct part of the AA Program AA Chips or Medallions are coins given as a gift to commemorate or recognize various lengths of sobriety.  Other recovery programs like NA or CA also give sobriety chips to their members.  Being more of a cultural norm you'll find the use of AA Chips will vary from meeting to meeting.  Some give plastic poker chip type chips, some give colorful aluminum medallions and some stick with traditional bronze medallions.  ...

When you hear someone speak of a 1 Year Chip they are probably talking about a Sobriety Medallion in a recovery program like AA or NA.  A 1 year Chip celebrates a full year of sobriety.  Some programs make sobriety coins a direct part of their program producing their own (Narcotics Anonymous).  Other programs like AA (Alcoholics Anonymous) do not actually make chips or put their name or logo on a chip.  In programs like AA chips are handed out to mark various points in sobriety but are more of a cultural norm than a direct part of the program. ...

To many in recovery programs like AA the 1 Year sobriety medallion is a crucial milestone.  Some AA meetings hand out nice bronze chips for months 1 3 6 9 and some do plastic poker chips.  This makes the 1 year chip the first non-plastic that some members of Alcoholics Anonymous receive.  The options available today for medallions celebrating one year are many and this post explores a few options available.  Common manufacturers are Wendells , Bright Star Press and Recoverychip.com - Nearly all of these have the Serenity Prayer on the back. The most common 1 year AA medallion...

Looking for a butterfly themed medallion to keep or give to friends in recovery?  The ones we offer are very popular with folks in a 12 step program like AA or NA.  We have several types of butterfly medallions in color and plain bronze options.  Most have the Serenity Prayer on back however we did come out with an alternative that says "Be Willing To Surrender What You Are For What You Might Become."  We call it the Butterfly Surrender Medallion.  It's in full color or bronze your choice.  The size is 34mm and we have them in 2mm and...

If you want to carry your AA Medallion on a necklace we have a great sobriety chip holder for you to check out.  It's a gold tone necklace coin holder that can fit a 34mm x 2mm coin.     What does it fit? This means it fits the Wendells bronze medallions you usually receive in AA Meetings as well as their higher end gold and silver plated and colored chips.   How It Works: The way it works is that the top of the metal hoop unscrews allowing you to separate the top of the hoop.  You insert your...