The United States Mint has updated its daily bullion sales report for American Eagle and American Buffalo bullion coins. This summary report provides sales details through Sunday, January 30, 2022. The bullion sales report reflects bullion coins that the Mint sold to Authorized Purchasers for the previous week and is different than the weekly numismatic product report. During the previous week, the Mint reported sales of 1,074,500 bullion coins, with all products except the one-ounce American Eagle Platinum coin registering sales to Authorized Purchasers. This is nearly double the total sales from the previous report from January 16th.
As is normally the case, the one ounce silver American Eagle was the top bullion selling product for the Mint last week. 1 Million of the coins were sold to Authorized purchasers, putting total sales at 4.501 million for the month of January. That is just slightly behind the 4.775 million that were reported sold in January 2021. As for the gold American Eagle bullion coins, the one ounce coin and all fractional coins had sales last week according to the Mint’s report. The one ounce gold American Eagle had 22,500 coins sold for the week, putting its total sales for the year at 110,000. Meanwhile, the 1/2-ounce gold Eagle had 1,000 coins reported sold last week, put its total sales at 45,00 for the month and year. The 1/25th-ounce had 10,000 coins reported sold last week while the smallest fractional coin, the 1/10th-ounce, had 30,000 coins sold.
The American Eagle platinum one-ounce coin had no reported sales.
Turning to the one-ounce American Buffalo gold coin, another 11,000 of these were reported sold in the last week. That puts its total sales at 53,000 for the month.
| Product | 1/23/2022 | 1/30/2022 | Coins Sold |
| American Eagle – Silver | 3,501,000 | 4,501,000 | 1,000,000 |
| American Eagle – Gold 1-Ounce | 87,500 | 110,000 | 22,500 |
| American Eagle – Gold 1/2 Ounce | 44,000 | 45,000 | 1,000 |
| American Eagle – Gold 1/25 Ounce | 52,000 | 62,000 | 10,000 |
| American Eagle – Gold – 1/10 Ounce | 150,000 | 180,000 | 30,000 |
| American Eagle – Platinum | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| American Buffalo | 42,000 | 53,000 | 11,000 |
| Total Bullion Coins Sold | 3,876,500 | 4,951,000 | 1,074,500 |
As a reminder to collectors new and old, United States Mint bullion coins are sold to Authorized Purchasers and cannot be directly purchased from the Mint itself. The United States Mint updates is bullion sales report each day at 5:00 PM Eastern. USCoinNews.com publishes a weekly summary of the previous week each Monday. You can find the report on the Mint’s site here as it is available to the public.
The United States Mint updates is American Buffalo bullion sales report each day at 5:00 PM Eastern. USCoinNews.com publishes a weekly summary of the previous week each Monday. You can find the report on the Mint’s site here as it is available to the public.