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"The Token Shop has saved our group, "Happy Hour" $200.00 in one year alone. We now guide these funds into literature purchases because every now and then we give away books. So indirectly The Token Shop has blessed some less financially disposed members of AA." -Mark

"I've gotten a few orders from the Token Shop, and I've always been impressed by the great prices and incredibly fast shipping. I don't know how he does it, but I'm incredibly thankful." -Greg

"The Token Shop has saved our group, "I have been buying coins from The Token Shop for years.. and quite honestly they are the best company I have used on the net.. What I really appreciate is the promptness,, I can be a forgetful person and just with normal shipment have not disappointed yet.. Thank you for the good service, selection, and variety." -Dave

"The Token Shop has saved our group, "I presented my sponsee with her 5 year token and she was dazzled. Her favorite color is purple so she loved the purple sparkle. It is a beautiful token, well made, and arrived in a timely fashion. I will be ordering from you in the future." -Susan

"I LOVE my medallion and so do my friends. It is beautiful and so affordable. In 22 years of sobriety, I never found a medallion I loved enough to buy for myself partially due to affordability. I am so happy! Thank you The Token Shop!!!" -Linda

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8/3/2022

What to Expect When Joining an AA Group

Alcoholics Anonymous is a worldwide organization, running groups in over 180 countries that help more than two million members. However, the prospect can seem daunting for those considering joining an AA group.

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7/27/2022

The Ultimate Guide to Milestone AA Tokens

Did you know that there have been over 96,000 deaths from drug abuse every year?

Drug and alcohol addiction is a serious cause of illness and death in today's world. But going to Alcoholics Anonymous meetings has changed the lives of many people.

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7/20/2022

5 Ways to Store Your Beloved AA Coins

Reaching a milestone in a substance abuse recovery is worth celebrating. That's why 12-step programs like Alcoholics Anonymous often give out AA coins at many of their 123,000 groups worldwide.

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7/13/2022

7 Tips for Dealing with Temptation While Staying Sober

So you’ve made the decision to get sober. But now you have to battle temptation left, right, and center, every day, and sometimes it feels relentless. Staying sober can be challenging, but it’s worthwhile and you will be a much stronger and more resilient person on the other side of it.

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7/6/2022

A Closer Look at AA Medallions From Around the World

Alcoholics Anonymous has been running since 1935 when it started with two men in Ohio who were seeking sobriety. Today, there are more than 2 million members across 180 countries.

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6/29/2022

Admitting There's a Problem: When Do You Need to Stop Drinking?

Did you know that there are 3 million deaths annually from alcohol misuse? Many people enjoy a few drinks from time to time, but some people struggle to know when to stop and develop a dangerous drinking problem that could ruin their life and the lives of those around them.

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AA Coins, AA Chips, AA Tokens

At The Token Shop we want to be your one stop shop for 12-Step AA Coins, AA Medallions, and 24 Hour AA Chips to mark the beginning of sobriety. You will find a wide selection of Monthly and Yearly Anniversary Medallions, & Fancy AA Tokens. We enjoy interacting with you and we love shipping little pieces of sobriety all over the world! We stock the most popular varieties of AA Medallions. We maintain low overhead to keep our costs reasonable and your prices low. We offer friendly customer service, and fast shipping. We have been in business since 2010 and have great relationships with our vendors to assure you, our customer, that we will have the items you need in stock at the price that makes you happy!

The Token Shop offers the best AA Medallions, we can at the best prices available. The AA Recovery Gifts we sell are minted in the United States using premium quality materials to assure a high class finish for years to come. All of our AA Medallions feature the Alcoholics Anonymous Circle and Triangle motif on the front, they also feature the 3 legacies of AA, Unity, Fellowship, and Recovery, around the outside edge. Also on the front is the popular phrase; "To Thine Own Self Be True". On the back of the AA Anniversary Medallions is the Serenity Prayer.

Our goal is to win your business with honest pricing, great customer service and fast shipping. Check out our Alcoholics Anonymous Meeting Starter Sets, which have free shipping and added savings through bundling of some of our most popular tokens into one large kit, and our always on sale Bronze AA Coins. We have the best price on 24 Hour AA Chips you can find! We check our competitors prices regularly to make certain that we are offering the best prices we can, our aim is to provide you with value for your purchase! Whatever the needs of your recovery group, Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, or treatment facility are, our team at The Token Shop is available to help! So please, take a few minutes to look around, enjoy your shopping experience and if there is anything we can do to help, don't hesitate to ask. At the top of the page you will find a contact form you can use to reach out to us, fill it out and we will get back to you as quickly as we can. We hope that you find everything that you need, and perhaps we shall meet as we trudge this road of happy destiny, may God bless you and keep you - until then!

What Are AA Chips?

What Are AA Chips, What Are They Used For, and How Do You Get One?

If you or someone you know begins a personal journey of recovery, chances are AA Chips or AA Coins will become an important part of that journey. In this article we will introduce you to AA Chips, what they are, where did they originate, and most importantly, how you can use them on your path to recovery. Untold numbers of people, in recovery, go through their daily lives with this small token of sobriety in their pockets. These AA Coins serve was a constant outward reminder of an internal commitment to a life of recovery, abstinence, and spiritual progress. AA Chips are often given as gifts from one person in recovery, or family member of a person in recovery, to someone who has achieved a certain recovery milestone. Those significant moments in a sober person's life begin with their first day, or 24 hours sober, and go on from month to month for their first year!

AA Chips, What Are They?

AA Chips, sometimes call AA Coins, AA Tokens, or AA Medallions, are small, 34mm by 2mm, round pieces of metal or plastic which are distributed to members of 12 Step groups, such as Alcoholics Anonymous or Narcotics anonymous to mark significant periods of continuous sobriety. AA Chips typically begin as aluminum coins, which start at 24 Hours of sobriety. After the 24 AA Chip, they go up in monthly intervals starting with one month, and eventually reaching 1 Year. Yearly anniversary coins are historically brass coins which have been treated with a special antique finish, they are stamped with roman numerals to designate the number of years which the recipient is celebrating. Bronze AA Chips come in 24 Hours, Months 1 - 11, as well as years 1 - 65.

Most AA Chips have similar features which help to identify them as recovery medallions. The common features of an AA Coin are as follows:

AA Circle & Triangle on the front of the AA Coin
The 3 Legacies of AA (Unity, Recovery, & Service)
"To Thine Own Self Be True"
The Serenity Prayer on the back of the coin

AA Chips, Where Did They Come From?

While there's a lot of information available about the history of the AA program and early AA meetings, there isn't a lot of information about the little traditions that certain groups started to adopt. Because of that, there's not a lot of information about how the tradition of handing out AA coins started. However, AA history buffs have pieced together some information about the history of this tradition. Before groups started hanging out sobriety chips, many individual members of AA chose to carry around tokens of their sobriety as a reminder of how important their sobriety was and the hard work they were doing in their programs.

Letters between early AA members indicate that this individual tradition was adopted by a group in Indianapolis in 1942. Back then it was common for AA members to travel great distances to attend meetings, so people from all over visited that Indianapolis meeting and took the AA chip system they developed back to their groups. Another theory traces the origin of this tradition to Sister Ignatia at St. Thomas Hospital in Akron, Ohio. Sister Ignatia frequently worked with Dr. Bob to get people sober through the hospital's program, and when patients left the hospital she would give them a Sacred Heart Medallion as a reminder of their commitment to their sobriety. It's possible that people who got sober by working with Sister Ignatia and Dr. Bob took the tradition of giving coins to represent a commitment to sobriety back to their AA meetings, resulting in the AA chip system.

AA Chips, How Do You Get One?

AA Chips are distributed in 12 Step Meetings such as Alcoholics Anonymous, or Narcotics Anonymous to celebrate different lengths of sobriety or clean time. AA Chips are generally given to members during a celebration ceremony at the beginning or the end of an AA Meeting. Most AA Meetings maintain a small collection of these recovery coins which they use to give out to individuals who have successfully completed a milestone in their recovery journey.