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Mintage 47,000,000
Minted at West Point and San Francisco without mintmark
Like others American Silver Eagles in MS-70, this Eagle exhibits sharp details on the obverse and reverse prime focal spots, and superbly smooth and satiny fine textured fields. With excellent original mint luster and superb eye appeal, as well as no spots, hairlines, hits, scuff marks, abrasions or other defects, it is another great example of American Silver Eagle in MS-70 grade.
Numismatic News: For the first time, bullion strikes were produced not only at the San Francisco and West Point Mints, but the Philadelphia Mint as well. Collectors, however, had no way of knowing which coins were struck at the Philadelphia Mint and which at the West Point Mint since the Philadelphia strikes were comingled with the West Point strikes before final shipment to authorized purchasers for market distribution.
Grading services consequently confirmed that they would not be encapsulating 2015 American Silver Eagles as Philadelphia strikes without concrete evidence that the coins were struck there. Since the Philadelphia Mint strikes were shipped to authorized purchasers in boxes with West Point strap labels, the Philadelphia strikes are likely to be forever commingled with the West Point strikes.
On July 7 the Mint suspended sales of the 2015 American Silver Eagle bullion coins to replenish inventory as sales exceeded the Mint's ability to strike coins to meet the public' demand. However, sales resumed 3 weeks later. With a sales figure of 38,759,000 through mid October 2015, the Mint may have beat its yearly American Silver Eagle bullion coin record set in 2014.
2015 average silver price: $15.96/ounce (through October 20, 2015)