Good intel! Thanks you two

KW, I spoke with the designer of the obverse of this medal and he concurs with your observation. The image of the medal must have been inadvertently rotated when the page was created on the Mint’s online catalog. Being the only available image of the medal at this time, it stands to reason that CoinNews.net downloaded a copy it for this article.

My guess is the medal’s erroneous position occurred because of a lack of a convenient horizontal or vertical line of reference in the design. However, upon close examination of the designer’s initials – RaM – at eight o’clock, it is evident that the image has indeed been rotated 4-5 degrees clockwise. This assumes, of course, that the designer’s initials are to be positioned horizontally.

You are correct, sir. I can state with a fair amount of certainty that the U.S. Mint will strike these silver medals for only five branches of the U.S. Armed Forces: the Army, the Navy, the Air Force, the Marines, and, of course, the Coast Guard.

Good eye Dick

Thank you for serving

Just got an email from
The Minti verifing my Payment method for 2 ASE’s,. Looks kile The enrollments are good to go.

i cant wait as well. i served in the USMC from 85-89 and Army reserve from 1990-2019 and hope they both look as least as good as the coast guard medal.

I just signed in to my account for the US Mint. I went to my product Enrollment -clicked on the ASE Silver proof (W) and this was added to the item “NEXT: PRES CASE ASE SILVER PROOF 1OZ – NEW DESIGN”. Maybe the enrollment are going to be honored after all. My suggestion is – log into your account and check it out. This looks encouraging!