US Mint Sales: Eagle Gold Coins Robust, Grand Canyon 5 Oz Maxed, Hayes $1 Debut

The latest United States Mint sales figures provide several interesting revelations. Despite suspensions of gold coins and resulting higher prices, several marked improved gains. Other coins also rallied. 68 numismatic products outperformed their previous weekly gains during the third week of August. That compares to 48 in the second week and 26 in the first week.

In additional highlights, orders for the Grand Canyon National Park 5 Ounce Silver Uncirculated Coin are apparently maxed and the debuting sales results for rolls of Rutherford B. Hayes dollars are available.

United States Mint commemorative gold coins remain unavailable after having been suspended on August 12. Their latest sales totals were expectedly trimmed, but only modestly.

Gold soared 6.3 percent last week. Its gain impacted other products in the form of suspensions and higher prices. All of the Mint’s numismatic gold coins were unavailable for about 24 hours, and then their prices were raised to the highest in history. Still, all but one proof American Gold Eagle posted better weekly sales. And most of the remaining gold coins scored better tallies than during July before the major run-up in gold prices began. The following table highlights:

*The United States Mint did not publish updated sales for the proof American Gold Buffalo coin.

Grand Canyon 5 Ounce Orders Maxed

Household order limits were removed for the Grand Canyon National Park 5 Ounce Silver Uncirculated Coin on August 9. Sales jumped the following week by 2,045, leaving 738 left. Those and more, are now gone. The United States Mint has indicated 27,154 have been ordered, or 154 more than their maximum 27,000 mintage. The Mint is still offering them online as of this writing, which is likely to end soon. With cancellations added into the mix, the Grand Canyon sales level should return to 27,000.

The other five ounce issue available, the 2010 Mount Hood National Forest 5 Ounce Silver Uncirculated Coin, increased 640. That lifts its total to 19,342.

Rutherford B. Hayes $1 Debut

Rutherford B. Hayes $1 coin rolls went on sale Thursday, August 18. Buyers ordered 19,574 of the Philadelphia rolls and 19,170 of the Denver rolls, bringing the total to 38,981. The pace is a touch slower than the previous Ulysses S. Grant $1 coin rolls which debuted with a total of 40,199. The Rutherford B. Hayes $1 coins did make the Mint’s top numismatic seller list.

Top five United States Mint selling products:

1. 2011 Proof American Silver Eagles (+36,981)
2. Rutherford B. Hayes $1 Coin Rolls – P (+19,574)
3. Rutherford B. Hayes $1 Coin Rolls – D (+19,170)
4. 2011-W 9/11 Medals (+10,377)
5. 2011-P 9/11 Medals (+7,131)

The latest US Mint sales figures for bullion and collector coins and sets are available in the following tables:

US Mint Sales: Bullion Coins

*The as of date for US Mint sales of 1-ounce and under bullion coins is Wednesday, August 24, 2011. For reference, 53,000 of the 2010-dated 1-ounce Gold Eagles remained for sale earlier this year and are included in the overall totals. The bullion sales figures also include 469,500 of the 2010-dated Silver Eagle bullion coins sold in January.

**The US Mint does not offer weekly per coin sales totals for the Olympic, Vicksburg and Chickasaw America the Beautiful 5-ounce Silver Bullion Coins. The individual totals listed above are as of Tuesday, August 2.

The following are the latest tallies for US Mint collector products:

US Mint Sales: Numismatic Products

*NLA – No Longer Available.

The collector coin sales figures above have an "as of date" of August 22, 2011. Visit the United States Mint website at http://www.usmint.gov/ for more information on any of the above products, or this site’s United States coins page.