2025 Marine Commemorative Dollar - 80th and 250th Anniversary
coinhack
Posts: 1,164 ✭✭✭✭
I believe the Mint is only releasing one commemorative set this year. It honors the 250th Anniversary of the U.S. Marine Corps. There are six coins in the set, Half Dollar, Silver Dollar and $5 Gold. Each coin is available in proof or uncirculated.
I don't collect the modern clad 50 cent commemoratives and I quit collecting the gold because of the price. I did have a set of both the proof and uncirculated silver dollars, but I sold the proofs. I do have a full date and mint set of the uncirculated silver dollars beginning with the 1983 Los Angeles Olympic coins to the 2024 WW II coin. A total of 96 coins with the newest addition. So, I placed and order with the mint a few weeks ago for the current 2025 Marine coin. It has been on back order, and I finally received it this week.
It is a beautiful coin with heavy frost and masterful engraving. The obverse depicts the famous flag raising on Iwo Jima with the dates 1775 and 2025 for the 250th anniversary of the Marines. The reverse features the Eagle, Globe and Anchor, the official emblem of the marines.
The 250th anniversary is well known but a lot of people aren't aware that today, February 23, 2025, is the 80th anniversary of the flag raising which is depicted on the obverse of the dollar and happened on Feb. 23, 1945. The battle of Iwo Jima began on Feb. 19 and it took the marines 4 days to claim the high ground on mount Suribachi.
Comments
I did not know of the flag raising anniversary on this day..
fka renman95, Sep 2005, 7,000 posts
A momentous day in the history of our United States Marine Corps. It came at a horrible cost yet went on to signal victory in the Second World War a few months later. I collected the proof silver dollar and clad half dollar only since the uncirculated issues are from the same mints as the proofs, and mint pricing is outrageous so gold is off the table. My father was a United States Navy Commander, so one for their anniversary would have been quite fitting for me as well.
It's been a good 30 years since I ordered anything from the mint. However, I recently ordered one of these.
I received confirmation of my order and a tracking number. The tracking says it originated in IRVING, TX.
Question: Aren't these orders coming directly from the Mint?
Disclaimer: I'm not a dealer, trader, grader, investor or professional numismatist. I'm just a hobbyist. (To protect me but mostly you! 🤣 )
The Mint just does the manufacturing. Just about everything else (website, fulfillment, customer care) is done by PFS Web -- https://govtribe.com/vendors/priority-fulfillment-services-inc-dot-pfs-web-3rtq4
The Mint is listed on their Clients page at https://www.pfscommerce.com/about/clients/
So the Mint sends the coins to Texas and then distributed from there?
Disclaimer: I'm not a dealer, trader, grader, investor or professional numismatist. I'm just a hobbyist. (To protect me but mostly you! 🤣 )
That's my understanding, based on some other (now outdated) articles I read while researching this question for another forum:
"Ever wonder what happens to unsold U.S. Mint products?" Those products are not at the Mint, so they had to be delivered from the Mint to a fulfillment center earlier. -- https://www.coinworld.com/news/us-coins/ever-wonder-what-happens-to-unsold-u-s-mint-p.html
"Mint seeking new vendor for ordering and fulfillment?" The current vendor renewed the contract, and it mentions their fulfillment center in Tennessee. They must have more than one, or they moved since this was published. -- https://www.coinworld.com/news/us-coins/mint-seeking-new-vendor-for-ordering-and-fulfillment