U.S. Mint Sells More Silver Eagles In A Week Than Gold Eagles Over Past Three Years
We can see that May, with more than half of the month remaining, is only 300,000+ oz away from surpassing April’s total.
At this rate, May could turn out to be the highest sales month, beating the record set in March at 5,354,000 oz.
At first, I thought the U.S. Mint sold 1.8 million Silver Eagles over the weekend, including Monday. However, I received a response from Michael White, Public Affairs at the U.S. Mint letting me know that there was a glitch in the figures.
Even though the U.S. Mint updated their end of the week tally of Silver Eagles at 19.7 million, the total for May remained at 1,322,500 on Friday. By adding up the monthly figures, the total amount should have been 18.7 million, not 19.7 million. All the sales figures are now up to date. That being said, the U.S. Mint sold 1,939,500 Silver Eagles as of Monday-Tuesday last week. Again, this is a huge amount when we compare it to Gold Eagle sales.