Mint Statistics: Sales numbers sometimes seem a bit odd
If you are watching 2017 America the Beautiful five-coin silver proof sets, you will notice something odd. This week’s total of 50,024 is 3,535 fewer than last week’s figure. In…
If you are watching 2017 America the Beautiful five-coin silver proof sets, you will notice something odd. This week’s total of 50,024 is 3,535 fewer than last week’s figure. In percentage terms, that’s quite a large adjustment. Could there have been that many returns?
Another oddity is the sales numbers for the Boys Town $5 gold commemorative coins. The uncirculated continues to outsell the proof. Normally, the proof outsells uncirculateds by 2 to 1 or 3 to 1. However, the likely cause is the availability of the proof gold $5 in the three-coin set. That could be depressing individual proof gold $5 sales.
If you are watching the Mint’s website, you might have seen the message that the Lions $1 proof coin is on backorder. That seems a bit strange when only 53,666 have been sold so far.
Sales of individual proof 2016 silver American Eagle coins finally passed 550,000. Next week I will begin reporting sales numbers for the 2017 coin.
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