The United States Mint indicated that new products would be released in 2012 in association with the commemorative coins planned for the year. In addition, the price points of those products as well as the individual coins are now known.
Special commemorative coin packaging or multi-coin sets associated with commemorative strikes have not been issued by the US Mint since 2009 such as the 2009 Lincoln Coin and Chronicles Set. However, that is going to change with the pending 2012 Commemorative Coin releases. [click to continue…]
The United States Mint has indicated that the 2011 American Eagle Gold Uncirculated Coin has attained a sell-out. Effective January 17, 2012, the coins were moved to the "No Longer Available" section of the Mint's online store.
2011 American Eagle Gold Uncirculated Coins are a collector version of the highly popular American Eagle Gold Bullion Coins. However, unlike its 2011 bullion counterpart which sold a total of 1,000.000 ounces worth, the Uncirculated Gold Eagle may go down in the record books as the Gold Eagle with the lowest mintage in the history of the program. [click to continue…]
While the United States Mint has yet to offer a complete Product Schedule for 2012 letting the public know when to expect certain products, it has released a list of issue prices for some of those products. Collectors will be happy to learn that many of those 2012 issue prices are lower than their 2011 versions were sold for.
Among the prices announced by the Mint, the 2012 Proof Silver Eagle will see a 9.5% decrease from the highest price point the 2011 Eagle sold at. Other affected products include the United States Mint Uncirculated Coin Set®, several America the Beautiful Quarters® products and some Presidential $1 Coin products. [click to continue…]
The United States Mint yesterday, Thursday, January 12, 2012, released the 2011 Vicksburg Silver Uncirculated Coin. These strikes feature a reverse design emblematic of Vicksburg National Military Park located in the state of Mississippi and are available now for $204.95, plus the US Mint's standard shipping and handling charge.
The 2011 Vicksburg Silver Uncirculated Coin is the fourth 2011-dated strike in the America the Beautiful Five Ounce Silver Uncirculated Coin series. This coin also marks the ninth in the program overall which debuted with five 2010-dated releases. [click to continue…]
The United States Mint will begin accepting orders for the 2012 bullion Gold and Silver Eagles tomorrow, January 3rd, 2012 from its network of authorized purchasers (APs). The announcement of the debut of the 2012-dated coins was made in a memo last week to the APs and also included additional details as well as alluded to anticipated sufficient supplies of the bullion Eagles.
Bullion Gold Eagles and Silver Eagles are not sold directly to the public. Instead, they are offered in bulk to a network of authorized purchasers who pay a small premium above the current spot price of the precious metals contained within the coins. The APs then resell them to coin and precious metal dealers and the public for an additional premium above spot. [click to continue…]
On Tuesday, December 27, 2011, the United States Mint lowered the price on five of its numismatic silver products. The five products affected by the new price points include the uncirculated American Silver Eagles and the four currently available America the Beautiful Five Ounce Silver Uncirculated Coins.
These price drops were lead by a continued soft silver market. The precious metal has been down over $18 an ounce from its 2011 high set in late April.
The table below shows the five affected silver numismatic products, their previous price and the price they are now available for: [click to continue…]
The United States Mint stopped selling the 2011 Commemorative Coins at 5PM on Friday, December 16, 2011 in order to allow it time to insure all orders for the strikes were completed before the end of the year. As required by law, the coins could no longer be sold after 2011.
Now that the coins are no longer being sold, we have an idea of what the mintages will be on the ten different varieties of commemorative coins struck during the year by the US Mint. These numbers are not final and may be adjusted based on returns, and accounting corrections, but they are taken from the US Mint's sales figures released early last week (with sales shown through December 19, 2011).
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Sales of the 2012 American Eagle Gold Bullion Coin and the 2012 American Eagle Silver Bullion Coin will begin on Tuesday, January 3, 2012 according to the United States Mint. On that date, the Mint will begin accepting orders for the bullion Eagles from its network of Authorized Purchasers.
The Authorized Purchasers (APs) are responsible for the distribution of US Mint bullion products. They place bulk orders for the coins from the US Mint based on the market prices of the precious metals they contain plus a small premium to cover the Mint's production costs. Following receipt of the coins, they then resell them to coin and precious metal dealers as well as the public for a slightly larger premium over current market values. [click to continue…]
Line-art imagery of the upcoming 2012 America the Beautiful Quarters and Silver Coins has been released by the United States Mint. These images include the reverse designs for 2012 strikes that will honor El Yunque National Forest of Puerto Rico, Chaco Culture National Historical Park of New Mexico, Acadia National Park of Maine, Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park of Hawaii and Denali National Park of Alaska.
The designs will be used on the circulating America the Beautiful Quarters® Program as well as the America the Beautiful Silver Bullion™ Program and the America the Beautiful Five Ounce Uncirculated Coin™ series. All three series contain similar obverse and reverse imagery including the same obverse portrait of George Washington by John Flanagan seen in one form or another on quarter dollars since 1932. [click to continue…]
The United States Mint this week introduced the designs for the upcoming 2012 Star-Spangled Banner Commemorative Coins. Released as part of the program will be $5 gold coins and silver dollars, both struck to proof and uncirculated conditions.
Congress authorized the series as part of the Star-Spangled Banner Commemorative Coin Act (Public Law No: 111-232) that was signed into law by President Obama on August 16, 2010. Each strike was to feature designs "emblematic of the War of 1812 and particularly the Battle for Baltimore that formed the basis for the Star-Spangled Banner" according to the authorizing law. [click to continue…]
The United States Mint indicated that new products would be released in 2012 in association with the commemorative coins planned for the year. In addition, the price points of those products as well as the individual coins are now known.
