This is a great looking US NAVY - USS Essex (LHD-2) challenge coin. Coin has reeded edges and is about 1 9/16" in diameter. Front side of coin is printed and colorized while the rear side is raised lettering and gold plated. Coin is contained in an acrylic air tight holder.

USS Essex (LHD-2) is a United States Navy Wasp-class amphibious assault ship built at what is now Huntington Ingalls Industries in Pascagoula, Mississippi, and commissioned on 17 October 1992 while moored at North Island NAS beside USS Kitty Hawk. It is the fifth ship named for Essex County, Massachusetts. Dick Cheney, then the Secretary of Defense in the first Bush Administration, spoke at the commissioning ceremony. Essex served as the command ship for Expeditionary Strike Group until replaced by USS Bonhomme Richard on 23 April 2012. Essex collided with USNS Yukon in May 2012.

Name:


USS Essex 
Namesake:Essex County, Massachusetts
Ordered:10 September 1986
Builder:Ingalls Shipbuilding
Laid down:20 March 1989
Launched:23 February 1991
Commissioned:17 October 1992
Homeport:Naval Base San Diego
Motto: Take Notice
Nickname(s):"The Iron Gator"
Status:in active service

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