US Mint Sales: Rail Splitter Cents Jump, Braille Silver Dollars Surge
Lincoln Rail Splitter cents are still in demand, Braille Silver Dollar sales surge, Puerto Rico quarters are expired and UHR $20 gold coins continue mostly at their regular pace.
Repeating what most coin collectors already know, the Lincoln Rail Splitter cent went on sale Thursday, May 14. By Sunday, 200,055 of the two-roll sets were sold, equating to more than 20 million pennies. Flash forward more than a week to the lastest US Mint sales data... 22,771 more sets have sold for a total of 222,826. For background, read the CoinNews article from earlier this week entitled Lincoln Rail Splitter Sales "Normalizing".
Two Braille Silver Dollars returned from their flight aboard space shuttle Atlantis on Sunday. During their orbital trip, sales of the coins experienced their own mini launch here on earth --although not to the 50,000 level the NFB wanted from the public. Still, 10,000 more Braille dollars were sold, which pushed the gas pedal down some. The proof jumped the most, rising a healthy 8.0 percent over the prior numbers. To date, 165,741 of the allotted 400,000 silver coins have been sold.
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US Mint Ends Puerto Rico Quarter Sales in Bags and Rolls
US Mint sales of Puerto Rico quarters in bags and rolls ended Tuesday with the release of the Guam quarters.
Impressive tallies from the latest US Mint sales report show that 37,295 of the 100-coin bags, 2,000 of the 1,000-coin bags and 41,699 of the two-roll sets were sold.
Puerto Rico quarter sales surged when news spread of their relative scarcity compared to other modern quarters. Registering lows that have not been seen in over 40 years, the 2009-P has a mintage of just 53.2 million and the 2009-D has a mintage of 86 million.
The Mint's quarter-dollar products were launched on March 30. In a week's time, the 1,000-coin bags sold out. Then the 100-coin (P) bag sold out late last week with 20,000 purchased by collectors.
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Lincoln Penny Rail Splitter Sales "Normalizing"
2009 Lincoln Penny Rail Splitter coins sizzled at launch, with more than 20 million cents sold in the first four days. On a sister site dedicated to the Lincoln bicentennial coins, we humorously (but aptly) named an article on the subject: "Lincoln Rail Splitter Penny Sales Steaming Like a Locomotive."
The most recent US Mint sales figures show a punctured engine with escaping steam. Well, at least from a self comparative standpoint. While 200,055 of the two-roll Lincoln sets had been sold up through Sunday, May 17, the US Mint now reports a total of 222,826 sets have been sold up to Monday, May 25.
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