Mint Sells 1 Million Ounces of Gold in 2011
Posted on January 6, 2012 by Jaime Hernandez
The Mint managed to sell 65,500 ounces of gold in December of 2011.
For the whole year U.S. Mint customer managed to buy exactly 1 million ounces of gold eagles. The majority of the gold eagle coins sold were the 1 ounce coins, as the Mint sold 910,000 of them. The remanider of the coins were half ounce, quarter ounce and tenth ounce gold eagles.
The second most popular gold eagles were the tenth ounce reaching 370,000 in sales. Third most popular were the quarter ounce coins reaching 82,000. And the least popular was the half ounce coin with sales reaching 65,000.
The best year for Gold Eagle Bullion Sales was in 1999 when the Mint sold over 2 million.
Here are the Top Ten Years of Bullion Gold Eagle Sales for the U.S. Mint
1999 2,055,500
1998 1,839,500
1986 1,787,750
2009 1,425,000
1987 1,253,000
2010 1,220,500
2011 1,000,000
2008 860,500
1997 771,250
1988 560,000
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