Guide to American Silver Eagle Coins
The United States Mint’s silver bullion coin series entered its sixth year with the 1991 Silver Eagle (Buy on eBay). The annual mintage increased for the third consecutive time to 7,191,066 coins. This number represented a temporary peak, which would not be exceeded until the pre-Y2K demand drove the mintage for the 1999 bullion coin […]
The 1990 Silver Eagle (Buy on eBay) showed another incremental increase for bullion coin mintage as the price of silver declined. This represented the second annual sales increase following the sharp decline experienced after the first full year of sales. For 1990, the United States Mint produced and sold a total of 5,840,000 bullion Silver […]
The 1989 Silver Eagle (Buy on eBay) showed a slight up tick for mintage of bullion coins during a down year for the price of silver. The United States Mint sold a total of 5,203,327 silver bullion coins dated 1989. This was just above the mintage level for 1988. Since the start of the program, […]
The series entered its third year with the 1988 Silver Eagle (Buy on eBay). The number of bullion coins produced fell by more than half from the prior year, as some of the pent up demand for precious metals had dissipated. Mintages for Silver Eagles would remain in similar range for the remainder 1980’s and […]
The 1987 Silver Eagle (Buy on eBay) marked the second year of release for the series. It was also the first year that bullion coins were available for sale for the entire year. In the prior year, bullion coins were only sold for the final two months. Sales of the bullion coins were extremely high […]
As the inaugural year of the series, the 1986 Silver Eagle (Buy on eBay) remains popular with collectors. However, mintages were high enough to keep premiums at a minimum. Even though the bullion coin was only sold for the final two months of the year, more than five million coins were purchased. The Silver Eagle […]