US Mint Sales: Quarters Coin Set, Olympic 5 Oz Silver and Lucretia Gold Debut

Debut sales are in for three newly released United States products, including the 2011 America the Beautiful Quarters Circulating Coin Set, 2011 Lucretia Garfield First Spouse Gold Coins and the 2011-P Olympic National Park Five Ounce Silver Uncirculated Coin.

While none of the products were tip-top-sellers for the Mint, two of them did show up in the bureau’s top-ten weekly sales list.

2011 ATB Quarters Circulating Coin Set Debut Sales

Appearing in the third spot was the 2011 Quarters Circulating Coin Set. Released Tuesday, November 29, collectors scooped up 10,098 by Monday. The debut nearly doubles last year’s set of 5,684, but the comparison is uneven given the 2010 set’s opening sales were for a 3-day period and it was competing against the popular 2010-W Proof Silver Eagle which had launched on the same day (November 19).

Still available from the Mint and at the same price as the 2011 set ($9.95), the 2010 Quarters Circulating Coin Set improved by 726 with a new sales total of 23,089.

2011-P Olympic Five Ounce Silver Uncirculated Coin Debut Sales

Showing up as the fifth best seller for the Mint was the new 2011-P five-ouncer featuring Olympic National Park. Also released on Tuesday, its debut sales were 8,662. That made it the slowest starter in the five-ounce uncirculated coin series.

Seven others have been released thus far — all this year, with the first four selling out and the fifth nearing the point.

Debut Sales for 2011 Lucretia Garfield First Spouse Gold Coins

Honoring Lucretia Garfield, the 21st issues in the First Spouse Gold Coin series and the fourth of the year registered debut sales of 2,352, with 1,478 for the proof and 874 for the uncirculated.

Here is a quick snapshot of how those sales stack up against the opening figures of several other recent releases:

And now, as alluded to before, here is the list of the United States Mint’s top ten weekly sellers:

US Mint Top Ten Numismatic Products of the Week

1. 2011 Proof Sets (+24,348 to 998,226)
2. 2011 Mint Set (+10,376 to 486,153)
3. 2011 ATB Quarters Circulating Coin Set (+10,098)
4. 2011 Silver Proof Sets (+9,608 to 517,309)
5. 2011-P Olympic Five Ounce Silver Uncirculated Coin (+8,662)
6. 2011-W Uncirculated Silver Eagle (+8,552 to 208,400)
7. 2011 Presidential $1 Proof Set (+7,640 to 264,659)
8. 2011 ATB Quarters Proof Set (+3,294 to 130,218)
9. 2011 ATB Quarters Silver Proof Set (+2,236 to 129,250)
10. 2011 Presidential $1 Uncirculated Set (+1,586 to 56,740)

Overall, 72 United States Mint products were more popular than the previous week. In contrast, 39 products had outperformed their previous weekly sales in the prior report.

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

US Mint Sales: Bullion Coin Products

*The as of date for US Mint sales of 1-ounce and under bullion coins is Tuesday, December 6, 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 as of date for the 5-ounce bullion coins is Monday, December 5, 2011.

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

US Mint Sales: Collector Products

*NLA – No Longer Available.

The collector coin sales figures above have an "as of date" of December 5, 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 American coinage page.