Title:
2021 Computer Support Unit
Description:
Friday Find’s - QPS Computer Support Unit coin, 2021
Hello fellow collectors
Since the last Friday find’s post was well received, I thought I would continue with my first coin I designed and made.
This was made to showcase the QPS Desktop Support team in Brisbane Central. There was a call from the team to get a challenge coin made and the team were excited to have something to show their commitment to the QPS.
The actual process to get the design made and created started more than five years earlier, while the ICT teams were still connected to commands in the Brisbane central area. A submission was sent in to request the use of the QPS service logo, but was denied because of the all seeing eye symbol on the back side of the coin. (remember the QPS logo is always considered the front design of a challenge coin) When the design choice was successfully passed by the approval committee showing the all seeing eye was a way to portray the nature of the desktop support team and there ability to see everything on the computer network, a new obstacle emerged. The PSBA.
Since the PSBA were not technically a QPS entity and only a support wing of the QPS, the design was again knocked back by the approvals board. So the design was shelved until the Desktop Support team was again part of the QPS and another submission was sent through and approved.
I know what you are thinking, why not just make the coin without the QPS logo? This was always going to be a symbol of the QPS Desktop support team’s commitment to QPS and all members decided if they couldn’t have the QPS service logo on the front side, it wasn’t going to be made.
There were only a few previous non operational unit coins created before the desktop support team coin, like the pipes and drums coin and various charity fundraising coins and the QPS Rugby league coins, but a coin based in PHQ and not staffed by sworn staff, this was one of the first.
On the coin there is a hidden message written in binary (the most basic computer language used by computer systems) that was used again in the follow up Desktop Support Team coin the next year. The coin is still around and can be found in trade posts on the trading post workplace page.
There you have the backstory of the 2021 Desktop Support Team Challenge Coin.
Until next time
Happy Collecting!
Hello fellow collectors
Since the last Friday find’s post was well received, I thought I would continue with my first coin I designed and made.
This was made to showcase the QPS Desktop Support team in Brisbane Central. There was a call from the team to get a challenge coin made and the team were excited to have something to show their commitment to the QPS.
The actual process to get the design made and created started more than five years earlier, while the ICT teams were still connected to commands in the Brisbane central area. A submission was sent in to request the use of the QPS service logo, but was denied because of the all seeing eye symbol on the back side of the coin. (remember the QPS logo is always considered the front design of a challenge coin) When the design choice was successfully passed by the approval committee showing the all seeing eye was a way to portray the nature of the desktop support team and there ability to see everything on the computer network, a new obstacle emerged. The PSBA.
Since the PSBA were not technically a QPS entity and only a support wing of the QPS, the design was again knocked back by the approvals board. So the design was shelved until the Desktop Support team was again part of the QPS and another submission was sent through and approved.
I know what you are thinking, why not just make the coin without the QPS logo? This was always going to be a symbol of the QPS Desktop support team’s commitment to QPS and all members decided if they couldn’t have the QPS service logo on the front side, it wasn’t going to be made.
There were only a few previous non operational unit coins created before the desktop support team coin, like the pipes and drums coin and various charity fundraising coins and the QPS Rugby league coins, but a coin based in PHQ and not staffed by sworn staff, this was one of the first.
On the coin there is a hidden message written in binary (the most basic computer language used by computer systems) that was used again in the follow up Desktop Support Team coin the next year. The coin is still around and can be found in trade posts on the trading post workplace page.
There you have the backstory of the 2021 Desktop Support Team Challenge Coin.
Until next time
Happy Collecting!
Year:
2021
Date Added:
2025-05-30 07:43:37
Date Added:
2025-05-30 07:43:37
