American Silver Eagle Mintage Numbers

The key date for the series has remained the elusive 1995 w proof silver eagle with a mintage of just 30 125 pieces.

American silver eagle mintage numbers.

Mint produces about 300 000 burnished silver eagles per year. This is about twice as rare as the proof silver eagles at about 650 000 produced per year and 50 times as rare as the bullion. This low mintage beat the record set by the 1995 w proof american eagle that was released only with the 10th anniversary gold eagle proof set. This coin sold out from the us mint website in under 15 minutes.

For proof american silver eagles the previously rarest coin was the 1995 w. Current and accurate silver eagles mintage chart. The american silver eagle has been minted since 1986 but the type of coin has not been consistent from year to year. For numbers marked with an asterisk refer to the mintage notes following the table.

These special silver eagles only had a mintage of 30 000. Mintage figures last updated on 01 28 2020. Starting in 1986 the american silver eagle program has been enormously successful. 1796 1807 capped bust right quarter eagle 1808 1834 capped head left quarter eagle 1834 1839 classic head quarter eagle 1840 1907 liberty head quarter eagle 1908 1929 indian head quarter eagle three dollars 1854 1889 three dollar gold piece four dollars 1879 1880 four dollar gold piece half eagles 1795 1807 turban head half eagle.

Only around 30 000 coins were produced that year with the west point mint mark. The coin was limited to just 30 000 coins making it the lowest mintage of any variety of american silver eagle coin. That coin has recently sold in examples graded ms69 in the 500 600. Quantities are measured in terms of production figures when referring to circulating coins sales figures for numismatic products and mintage figures for bullion.

Below you will find a table that illustrates the different annual mintages of bullion proof and burnished american silver eagles since the coin s. This is followed by the 2011 p reverse proof and 2011 s uncirculated silver eagles which both had final mintages of 99 882. The united states mint produces circulating coins for commerce numismatic coins for collectors and bullion coins for investors. We wanted to develop a handy guide that shows you mintages from year to year.