US Mint Silver Coin Sales Climb, Bullion Eagles Pass 15.8 Million

Last week figures had silver coin demand declining across all US Mint offerings with the exception of red-hot silver eagle bullion coins. Not so for recent sales.

Silver eagles continued to dominate, yes, but newly released 2009 Silver Proof Sets soared. And remaining Mint silver products climbed at least modestly.

In coming back to American Eagle Silver Bullion Coins, the US Mint sold 400,000 more from Wednesday to Wednesday. 2,025,000 were purchased in July, bringing the 2009 tally to a record-breaking pace of 15,849,500.

On the collectible side of the picture, 2009 Silver Proof Sets led in the sales board. The sets went on sale last Friday at noon. By Sunday, 271,372 had flown out of the Mint’s inventory and into collector’s hands.

Finally, in a bit of a surprise, 2008 Silver Proof Set figures remained unchanged from the Mint’s last report which had an effective "as of" date of Sunday, July 12. The set went off sale immediately prior to the launch of the 2009 set on Friday, July 17. It would seem logical to see some increase during those few days.

The following two table have the latest US Mint stats for collector silver coins and sets and bullion silver eagles.

U.S. Mint Silver Collector Coin Sales Stats

(Sales compare previous to current Mint figures)

	Previous Sales	New Sales	Unit Increase	% Increase	Mintage Limit
2008 American Eagle Silver Dollar Proof*	713,353	713,353	0	0.00%	none
2008 American Eagle Silver Dollar Uncirculated*	444,558	444,558	0	0.00%	none
2009 Lincoln Silver Proof*	325,000	325,000	0	0.00%	500,000
2009 Lincoln Silver Uncirculated*	125,000	125,000	0	0.00%
2009 Braille Silver Proof	113,922	114,734	812	0.71%	400,000
2009 Braille Silver Uncirculated	42,832	43,134	302	0.71%
Braille Uncirculated in Easy-Open Capsule	18,301	18,464	163	0.89%
2009 Silver Proof Set	–	271,372	271,372	–	none
2009 Quarters Silver Proof Set	210,436	214,977	4,541	2.16%	none
2008 Annual Uncirculated Dollar Coin Set	69,593	70,362	769	1.10%	none
2008 U.S. Mint Silver Proof Set*	774,874	774,874	0	0.0%	none

 

*Coin products with an asterisk are no longer available. Sunday, July 19, is the "as of date" for the most recent US Mint collector coin figures shown above.

American Silver Eagle Bullion Coin Sales in July

July 6	July 8	July 15	July 22
275,000	650,000	1,625,000	2,025,000

 

The previous reported sales figures are located at US Mint Silver Coin Sales Lower, Silver Eagles Flying. The Silver Coins Today tool page Mint Prices & Sales has been updated with the latest Mint sales figures.