250th Anniversary US Marine Corps American Eagle One Ounce Silver Proof Coin Available On 11/10/25

Sounds Odd,


I am imagining,

the returns and Quality may have the effect seen, ...

Mine was sweet, Just a Tad tiny privy marked.

Hello Gary,

Very glad to hear that, Please thank your Son in Law for His service, ...

I am Not saying the Bay is bad, I am saying once We take the Bay's route, One more thing has to be considered, Seconds, returns etc.

I am surprised @ The U S Marine ASE having been so anticipated, It is available Again.....@ $91.00

Good thoughts GLB49.

Also, with the relatively unusual P mint mark for this series, I'm surprised that this one didn't take.

The Army and Navy ASEs probably sold out because there are tons of Vets from those services.

As far as Marine vets go I have heard that they are few but proud



The few days it was available it wasn't $91, it was $175

Look at it this way.
The Army and Navy privy releases went off pretty much without a hitch. Except the Army was a presale and ERRbody hates a presale. Not enough people pay attention to what they are signing up for. It's not that much different than a subscription, in a way. You don't PAY, they don't take the MONEY, until it ships! But everyone is "where's my coin?, where's my coin?, I just ordered a coin, I should have my coin!". But I digress.
The Marine privy, because the APs got all whiney faced about not getting enough 70s, whined and cried enough until the Mint said "wait a minute wait a minute, let's get them back so we can LAUNCH an investigation! Release zee kraken, let's get to zee bottom of zis stain on zee face of zee Mint!".
What exactly they did at that point is beyond me. Did they trash some and remake them? How can the Mint even look at them and say this one's a 69, this one's a 70? WE can't even determine it on one or two coins in our possession, yet the Mint can look at hundreds of them and make a quality determination? They should have told the AP/ graders to pound sand.
My suspicion is that possibly some were swapped out and sent to the public, like us, trying to get the graders happier with the 70s they got.
My question would be if the production numbers are really significantly less than the Marine privy ASEs vs the other 2? If so, maybe the mintage is just less because they rejected a bunch and did melt some, and that's all there is going to be.

Well I usually jump into the Mint que-room about 5-7minutes before it is suppose to open. It has been great so far, havent missed a coin I wanted with this system, as long as I remember to login when I'm suppose too! Well I was busy at work and missed out on the Marine Privy ASE. I placed myself on the waiting list, and last friday, Feb 13th I got an email that they would go back on-sale at 12noon. I made sure to get in the que, and had mine by 12:06pm. Only thing was it was now $175!! It came in the mail yesterday, looks fantastic.
I had heard rumors that the mint recalled the entire run of 100k, destroyed them and re-mint them. Dont know why that happened,
but I heard it from a very reliable source.
Oh well, now to get ready for the new congratulations set ASE,
this year Philadelphia minted!

I received mine yesterday as well, and it looks fantastic. I think at this point I'll just eat the $21 (vs sending it back and re-buying at $160 shipped from ebay) since I already have a perfect (to me) coin in-hand. No sense spending the time to take it to the post office and send it back and hope I don't get a fingerprinty or someone's seconds from the bay.

Since I missed getting in line for the original release, I'll just chalk this up as an idiot fee.