Basics of the american silver eagle series starting in 1986 the american silver eagle program has been enormously successful.
Silver eagle dollar mintage.
Mintage figures last updated on 01 28 2020.
There are several silver eagle dollar coins that have continued to rise in price due to their rarity and demand from investors and collectors.
The key date for the series has remained the elusive 1995 w proof silver eagle with a mintage of just 30 125 pieces.
The us mint introduced american silver eagle bullion coins minted with 999 fine silver in 1986.
The american silver eagle is the official silver bullion coin of the united states.
It is struck only in the one troy ounce size which has a nominal face value of one dollar and is guaranteed to contain one troy ounce of 99 9 pure silver it is authorized by title ii of public law 99 61 liberty coin act approved july 9.
The 1996 silver eagle bullion coin was the lowest mintage to date with only 3 6 million coins produced.
The west point mint will be striking the uncirculated 2020 w american eagle silver dollar which will be offered later in the year for 54 per coin.
Quantities are measured in terms of production figures when referring to circulating coins sales figures for numismatic products and mintage figures for bullion.
There will be no mintage limit nor household.
Today they are the most popular silver bullion coin in the world.
A secondary key date is the 1889 cc morgan dollar which had a mintage of 350 000.
The highest mintage morgan dollars came in 1921 when coins were produced in large quantities at the philadelphia denver and san francisco mints.
This is followed by the 2011 p reverse proof and 2011 s uncirculated silver eagles which both had final mintages of 99 882.
That coin has recently sold in examples.
The highest mintage proof issue was the inaugural year of 1986 with 1 446 778 pieces distributed.
When the program started the mintage of the bullion coins was typically below 10 million now with growth of the demand for these coins the mintages are four times the original rate.
Current and accurate silver eagles mintage chart.
Unlike other low mintage carson city issues virtually none of this date was dispersed in the gsa sales.
Even coins in poor condition can fetch high premiums.
2015 p silver eagle the rarest american silver eagle is the 2015 p struck at the philadelphia mint silver eagle which has a mintage of 79 640.