The United States Mint announced official sellouts of five collector products. The 2015 John F. Kennedy Coin & Chronicles Set wasn’t on the list but you’d expect it to get there with more than 96% ordered through a week ago Sunday. (See photos of the set.)
Another Kennedy product was, the dual-dated 1964-2014 50th Anniversary Kennedy Half-Dollar Gold Proof Coin.
Last year we stopped by the U.S. Mint at West Point to watch these coins getting made. I was impressed, and thought they’d sellout earlier and at a higher number. It was a lesson learned in trying to make such predictions. The latest weekly U.S. Mint sales report has its total at 73,772 coins. It’s not a low total by any means. It’s just not as high as many collectors expected.
Sold Out Products
The five U.S. Mint-announced sellouts and their sales through Sept. 27 include:
- 2014-W 50th Anniversary Kennedy Half-Dollar Gold Proof Coin – 73,772
- 2014-W American Eagle Platinum Proof Coin – 4,596
- 2014-P Everglades National Park Five Ounce Uncirculated Coin – 22,732
- 2014-W Florence Harding Gold Proof Coin – 2,372
- 2014-W Grace Coolidge Gold Proof Coin – 2,315
2014-W Proof Platinum Eagle Logs Mintage Low
Mintages continue to fall for the pricier proof American Platinum Eagles. Sales of last year’s coin at 4,596 marks the lowest for the size in collector proof quality. Two other proof Platinum Eagles in smaller sizes rank lower.
The .9995 fine platinum series was introduced in 1997. In addition to the 1 oz coin, fractional 1/2 oz, 1/4 oz and 1/10 oz coins were minted from 1997 to 2008. The 2008 proofs in the middle sizes of 1/2 oz and 1/4 oz are the scarcest with their mintages of 4,020 and 4,153.
1997 – 2014 Mintages of Proof American Platinum Eagle Coins
| 1 oz | 1/2 oz | 1/4 oz | 1/10 oz | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | 20,851 | 15,431 | 18,628 | 36,993 |
| 1998 | 14,912 | 13,836 | 14,873 | 19,847 |
| 1999 | 12,363 | 11,103 | 13,507 | 19,133 |
| 2000 | 12,453 | 11,049 | 11,995 | 15,651 |
| 2001 | 8,969 | 8,254 | 8,847 | 12,174 |
| 2002 | 9,834 | 8,772 | 9,282 | 12,365 |
| 2003 | 8,246 | 7,131 | 7,044 | 9,534 |
| 2004 | 6,007 | 5,063 | 5,193 | 7,161 |
| 2005 | 6,602 | 5,942 | 6,592 | 8,104 |
| 2006 | 9,152 | 7,649 | 7,813 | 10,205 |
| 2007 | 8,363 | 25,519 | 6,017 | 8,176 |
| 2008 | 4,769 | 4,020 | 4,153 | 5,138 |
| 2009 | 7,945 | N/A | ||
| 2010 | 9,871 | |||
| 2011 | 14,790 | |||
| 2012 | 9,081 | |||
| 2013 | 5,745 | |||
| 2014 | 4,596 | |||
At least for now, the lowest mintage Platinum Eagles are the collector uncirculated versions. They were produced from 2006 to 2008 and in four sizes each year. All but the 1/10 oz size from 2007 have lower mintages than last year’s proof Platinum Eagle.
| 1 oz | 1/2 oz | 1/4 oz | 1/10 oz | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 3,068 | 2,577 | 2,676 | 3,544 |
| 2007 | 4,177 | 3,635 | 3,690 | 5,556 |
| 2008 | 2,876 | 2,253 | 2,481 | 3,706 |
The 2014-W Proof Platinum Eagle features the last of the annually changing designs celebrating the core principles in the preamble of the U.S. Constitution. This design series kicked off in 2009. The U.S. Mint has not published on sale dates for the bullion or proof 2015 American Platinum Eagles. 2015 and 2016 proof designs are emblematic of the Mint’s two-year Torches of Freedom program.
This article was updated to include the latest sales figures through Sept. 27, 2015.
