Top Official Coin Sales: Market Overwhelmingly Chooses Silver
Unfortunately, the Austrian Mint’s 2013 Annual Report will not be released until July, however, their Director of Marketing and Sales providing me the figures on the total gold and silver sales for 2013. I received the figure for the silver Philharmonics but only a total amount of gold sold by the mint… including other coins and bars. So, I estimated their 2013 gold Philharmonic sales. According to all the data released by the Official Mints, here are the top 5 gold coin sales:
The Gold Maple Leaf sales took first place at 1,140,000 oz while the Gold Eagle came in second at 856,500 oz, followed by an estimated 750,000 oz of South African Krugerrands, 544,000 oz of Gold Philharmonics, and 460,082 Gold Pandas.
The total top 5 Official Gold coins sales were 3,750,582 oz. Of course this was not the only gold sold by these official mints as other gold bullion, bars and numismatics were purchased as well.