U.S. Marine Corps 250th Anniversary Commemorative Coins for 2025

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In 2025, the U.S. Mint will strike coins in commemoration of the 250th anniversary of the United States Marine Corps.

CoinNews photo U.S. Marine Corps 2.5 Ounce Silver Medal - Reverse
In the past, the U.S. Mint has produced products celebrating the Marine Corps, like this 2.5-ounce silver medal issued as a part of the Mint’s Armed Forces Silver Medals Program. In 2025 and as directed by law, the Mint will strike gold, silver and clad coins in commemoration of the Corps 250th anniversary.

The 250th Anniversary of the United States Marine Corps Commemorative Coin Act (Public Law No: 118-10), which was signed into law Wednesday by President Biden, directs the Department of the Treasury, and thereby the U.S. Mint, to produce and sell up to 50,000 gold $5 coins, 400,000 silver dollars, and 750,000 clad half dollars.

Coin Designs

Other than the coin-mandated inscriptions of words like "Liberty," "In God We Trust," "United States of America," and "E Pluribus Unum," the designs of the coins are left open, as long as they are "emblematic of the 250th anniversary of the United States Marine Corps."

The final designs will be selected by the Treasury Secretary after consultations and reviews by the Commission of Fine Arts (CFA), the Citizens Coinage Advisory Committee (CCAC), the Commandant of the Marine Corps, and the Marine Corps Heritage Foundation.

Different Types of Coins

The U.S. Mint will produce 6 coins in total as a part of the commemorative program, offering them in varying mintages, collector finishes, denominations, and compositions.

Six Marine Corps 250th Anniversary Commemorative Coins

  $5 Gold Silver Dollar 50c
Finish Proof and Uncirculated Proof and Uncirculated Proof and Uncirculated
Mintage Maximums 50,000 400,000 750,000
Composition Not Less Than 90% Gold Not Less Than 90% Silver 8.33% Nickel, Balance Copper
Weight 8.359 Grams 26.73 Grams 11.34 Grams
Diameter 0.850 Inches 1.500 Inches 1.205 Inches

 

Coin Surcharges

Coin sales prices will include surcharges of $35 per gold coin, $10 per silver dollar, and $5 per half-dollar. Provided the commemoratives turn a profit, the collected funds will be paid to the Marine Corps Heritage Foundation and used exclusively to support the mission of the Marine Corps Heritage Center.

Background

Separate legislation seeking commemorative coins to honor the 250th anniversary of the U.S. Marine Corps had been passed by both the House of Representatives [H.R. 1096] and the Senate [S. 305].

The House version was originally introduced on Feb. 17 by Rep. Seth Moulton (D-MA), while the Senate bill was introduced on Feb. 7 by Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT).

Eventually, H.R. 1096 moved forward and was passed in the House on July 11, received Senate approval on July 20, and was signed into law by the President on July 26.

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East Coast Guru

Love the Marines, but enough is enough.

Dazed and Coinfused

Surcharge

Private Doofy reporting to your charge, Sir.

Dazed and Coinfused

However no military discounts for mint customers ever. That’s how you thank us for our service.

So not full ounce. Much higher production than the current coins. And copying a 250 year old insignia, so not hard to design the coin. Semper fi marines.

And to the mint.

The few, the proud, the mo rons

Frankie Fontaine

Wow a Marines commemorative- what has it been 2 years?
And look, would you just look @ those mintage limits. There must be bags of come in Congress as well, the #s are nuts, ignore reality and shows how out of touch on everything is Washington

Frankie Fontaine

BAgs of cocaine, spell check is CRAZY

Seth Riesling

Kaiser,

Maybe “Frankie Fontaine” was a centerfold model in the pages of a Blue Boy magazine…

NumisdudeTX

Seth Riesling

Kaiser,

I wish I had that first issue (circa 1974) in my collection. I bought a few copies in the early 80s while in college for the articles! Lol.
And singer Cyndi Lauper mentioned it in her hit song “She Bop” – “…in the pages of a Blue Boy magazine…” Good times!

NumisdudeTX

Tom

I see the Proof silver dollars for subscription shot back up above 7000. Guess some big times buyers cancelled or something. They had been down to only a bit over 1000 available.

Craig

Kaiser, I got an email from The Coin Vault and they are offering the Proof Morgan/Peace Dollar set slabbed 70 for $350.00 or $175/coin. These guys are as bad as Magic Mike when it comes to pricing new coin releases. I wonder how cheap these slabbed coins will be in a month or so.
But I also must say they sure do look nice. I don’t think anyone is going to be disappointed with the appearance of the coins!

Last edited 1 year ago by Craig
Dazed and Coinfused

I doubt they drop in price. Maybe a few bucks. $100 over asking. Plus what $25 to grade. $5 return shipping. And $5 to ship to buyer. So $65 markup. Takes up space. People like round numbers so $50 profit all in, might drop to $160 each, maybe $149.99 just to hit the psychological number, but I can’t imagine them selling less than $40 profit at that rate. And that just ms70. Fdoi or other special labels add to grading cost. After reading about all the marred uncirculated, guess the flippers sense the mint is destroying the hobby. Several stated… Read more »

Craig

D & C, Coin Vault is selling FDI 70’s Morgan/Peace Dollars for $349.95 for the 2 coins. I was thinking they’ll probable drop to $139 or $149, only because they are minting so many and these are by no means to be considered rare. I have also cut way back on the amount of dollars spent on Mint products and am basically picking up a couple each of the Morgan/Peace offerings. I hope you didn’t sell out of the stock market completely because you missed a lot of action this past year if you did. As they say, timing the… Read more »

Roger

It’s Blumie’s way of making amends for lying about his Vietnam service while in the USMC reserve.

chuck reed

how about both sides of coin