After reading the US Mint Final Figures....

Greetings again everyone!

So I had some spare moments the other day and I decided to look up the US Mint's "FINAL FIGURES FOR AMERICAN EAGLE BULLION (in pieces) 1986-Current"

And I found some amazing figures for gold for the 2007 production. There were only 140,016 pieces of 1 oz. gold produced. 47,002 pcs. of 1/2 oz, 34,004 pcs. of 1/4 oz. and, this is my personal favorite as I own this one. 190,010 pcs. of 1/10 oz gold.

Now, this is bullion figures only, no W's or any other special collectibles. But, I do own a 2007 1/10 MS 70 Early Release gold piece, I bought it for $99 pre-graded and I felt kinda bad about it at first. I mean it is so SMALL and I had a bit of buyers remorse at first.

But, the piece did grow on me. I really started liking it, and I would stare at it often and feel proud to own it. Numis Media priced it at $156 soon after i bought it, I thought " hmmm that's kinda weird" not knowing the figures of production.

In 2006, the Mint produced 285,006 pieces. In 2005 there were 300,043 pieces produced. The last time there were so few pieces produced was in 1988 when there was 159,500 pieces produced.

So, I was definately lucky to get my $5 gold piece..in an MS 70 Early Release even, for such a small amount of money. At 190,000 pieces, this is definately a very small mintage and i am sure this is a mintage that will be sought after for years to come.

This is the part about modern coin collecting I love, the not knowing part, and the , in my case rather DELAYED, adrenalin rush that comes with owning a superior coin.

If you want to see the final figures, you can find the mint's figures at usmint.gov and go to the American Eagles in the side bar. Very interesting figures in there.

Good luck, have a great day!!