ATB Five Ounce Silver Coins

18AM 2018-P Cumberland Is. Nat'l Seashore Silver 5-oz. Unc. Coin 16,195 16,204 9 Mintage limit 20,000
18AN 2018-P Block Is. Nat'l Wildlife Refuge Silver 5-oz. Unc. Coin 15,764 15,772 8 Mintage limit 20,000

19AJ 2019-P Lowell Nat'l Historical Park 14,566 14,586 20
19AK 2019-P American Memorial Park 13,777 13,796 19
19AL 2019-P War in the Pacific Nat'l Historical Park 14,096 14,148 52
19AM 2019-P San Antonio Missions Nat'l Historical Park 12,852 13,005 153

I've never cared for these and am not surprised that the annual mintages (or releases, sold coins) is dropping each year. Grossly overpriced and a mere copy of another(real)coin. An invented, price gouging gimmick for those who like big, bright shiny things.

18AM 2018-P Cumberland Is. Nat'l Seashore Silver 5-oz. Unc. Coin 16,211 16,218 7 Mintage limit 20,000
18AN 2018-P Block Is. Nat'l Wildlife Refuge Silver 5-oz. Unc. Coin 15,777 15,781 4 Mintage limit 20,000

19AJ 2019-P Lowell Nat'l Historical Park 14,611 14,631 20
19AK 2019-P American Memorial Park 13,819 13,840 21
19AL 2019-P War in the Pacific Nat'l Historical Park 14,199 14,240 41
19AM 2019-P San Antonio Missions Nat'l Historical Park 13,146 13,229 83

I like how they indicate the offerings are "Limited". Yes, they're limited to how many they have left because they can no longer be minted.

A week ago I won the Apostle Island P mint coin on ebay, and when I got the puck, the outer sleeve was for the Voyageurs puck. I contacted the seller - I noticed he had a Voyageurs puck up for auction, but he said that puck had the correct sleeve. He didn't know what happened to my sleeve - said nobody else had complained about getting the wrong sleeve. I told him not to worry about it, no big deal.

Today I received the Grand Canyon P mint coin that I won on ebay, and again the wrong outer sleeve - it was for the Everglades puck. I contacted the seller (a different seller this time around), and told him. He got back with me, and he does have the right sleeve and will be mailing it out to me in the morning. He said he had 27 ATB pucks to sell on ebay, and he didn't know that there were stickers on the outer sleeves. He said that he had taken all the outer sleeves off to protect them (?), and then as he sold each puck, he would send a sleeve along with the puck. He said that since he has messed up in mailing out different sleeves with the different pucks, that for the remaining pucks, he wasn't going to bother sending the sleeves. He said that since the pictures on ebay only showed the puck, the inner box, and the COA, but not the outer sleeve, then he felt the buyers couldn't complain about not getting the outer sleeve. I told him, that whereas his logic was true that the outer sleeves weren't pictured, that collectors, upon seeing in inner box and the COA papers, would assume they were getting the outer sleeve, too. I told him it would probably be in his best interest to send out the proper sleeves if he had them.

Anyways, I thought I'd see what all of you folks had to say on this.

It really isn't a big deal to me. But I don't know how big a deal this is to other collectors. I don't know if this would be a big deal down the road when I go to sell these pucks.

I really thought it was kind of humorous.

Total, with shipping, was $135. I thought it was a good deal.

I just received my River of No Return P-puck today. It's a nice looking coin (as most are in the 3" format) but kind of nondescript other than the giant boat in the foreground.

And then there were 6...

APMEX has the San Antonio pucks for $3/oz over spot