2009 Gold and Silver Proof Eagles Suspended

October 19, 2009 · Posted in Gold Bullion News · Comment

If you are an informed coin collector or bullion investor then you may already know that just a short time ago, the United States Mint released an official press statement with a bit of news that was both surprising and upsetting to many. The 2009 Uncirculated and Proof Gold and Eagles will not be put into production again for the rest of this year. As a tiny consolation, the press release did announce plans to tender the 2009 Proof Gold Buffalo, Proof Platinum Eagle, and fractional weight versions of their popular Gold and Silver Eagle coins. The cause that was blamed for the disregarded products will be familiar to those that are avid coin enthusiasts, as the Mint says that there has been an extraordinary demand for gold, silver and platinum bullion products this past year. This rationale has been referred to on various instances through the last couple of years, to give a variety of reasons for the rationing of these collectible silver and gold and collectible coins.

By law, the U.S. Mint is obligated to deliver Silver and Gold Eagle coins in numbers adequate to reach the demand of collectors and bullion investors. In view of that, the Mint has been utilizing all of their bullion coin blanks to turn out gold and silver coins, as a replacement for collector coins as they are not necessarily required to mint these coins.

The standing of this year's collectible Gold, Platinum and Silver Eagles, in addition to their popular Gold Buffalo Coins releases has been a topic of almost continuous talk and conjecture. Earlier in the year many experts had begun to talk about the prospect that these coins might not be released this year at all. The reasoning was confirmed just a couple of months later on, as the Mint finally announced that the items were temporarily suspended. By the middle of the summer there was a momentary revival of hope for the collector coins once the Government had at last put an end to the allocation of silver and gold proof and uncirculated eagles, but it seems that the outcome has not gone the way that many of us who collect would have liked.