Gold Eagle Makes March Third Best

April 12, 2010 - The American Gold Eagle soared to a 102,000 sales record to make the month of March the third March ever since the Gold Eagle was launched in 1986. The March 2010 sales of the Gold Eagle surpassed the previous third best March record of 88,001 by 13,999 coins.

Last January the Gold Eagle registered sales of 85,000 coins to make January the seventh best January ever for the Gold Eagle. February sales were slightly lower than the January sales at 84,000 coins. About mid-March, when sales of the Gold Eagle reached 39,500 expectations ran high for the possibility of sales surpassing the previous third best March sales record.

Total sales for 2010 ending in March reached 270,000 Gold Eagle coins.

January 85,000 coins

February 84,000

March 102,000

TOTAL 270,000

The US Mint also reported that when the one ounce Gold Eagle coins were released on January 19, some 35,000 coins were sold within the first 24 hours. By About mid-February some 150,000 coins had been sold.

There was a slight delay in the introduction of the 2010 Gold Eagle. The US Mint normally schedules every December the striking of new coins for release into the following year. But in 2009, it had not been able to do that because of some inventory problem. The US Mint decided to strike the 2009-dated Gold Eagle instead to be released in 2010 while the 2010-dated coins are not yet available.

Some 367,500 2009-dated Gold Eagles were sold before they ran out on January 12. After a gap of about a week, the 2010-dated Gold Eagle was launched.

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Joshua Harris

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