US Mint Silver Eagle sales near 4 million in first week 2012, down 35% YoY

The US Mint’s Silver Eagle coins continued its bumper sales with January first week sales totalling 3,957,000 coins or simply put – close to 4 million coins.

This includes the record breaking 3.2 million sales on the very first working day of the week, putting the last 4 day sales close to 800,000 coins.

But even with 4 million in sales, it still is over 35% lower than January 2011′s first week sales of a mammoth 6.4 million coins.

2011 total sales had hit an all time high of 39.8 million with many months setting individual sales records. – CommodityOnline

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Posted by Silver Guru on Jan 11 2012. Filed under Silver prices. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry