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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;silvermonger, post: 1334909, member: 12490&quot;]this may or may not be interesting but it does pertain to the subject</p><p>this info would seem to imply the eagles have been produced and packaged and are sitting on the shipping dock in a mountain of pallets laden with big green boxes all ready for the chosen few ($$$$$$$$$) to pick up.</p><p>---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; By <a href="http://blogs.reuters.com/search/journalist.php?edition=us&amp;n=frank.tang&amp;" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://blogs.reuters.com/search/journalist.php?edition=us&amp;n=frank.tang&amp;" rel="nofollow">Frank Tang</a></p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; NEW YORK |&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Wed Dec 28, 2011 3:10pm EST&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; (Reuters) - The United States Mint said on Wednesday it has enough&nbsp; American Eagle gold and silver bullion coins to meet demand and does not&nbsp; expect to allocate them in early 2012.</p><p>&nbsp;Sales of the U.S. gold and&nbsp; silver bullion coins have slowed in the fourth quarter as precious&nbsp; metals prices retreated from record highs, bucking a trend earlier this&nbsp; year when investors flocked to physical gold and silver as safe havens.</p><p>&quot;As&nbsp; we plan on having sufficient quantities of all coins available, we do&nbsp; not anticipate having to allocate the initial release,&quot; U.S. Mint&nbsp; spokesman Michael White said in a note.</p><p>The&nbsp; Mint had allocated its sales of gold and silver Eagle bullion coins to&nbsp; its authorized dealers in the last several years as unprecedented demand&nbsp; and a lack of coin blanks led to depletion of its supplies.</p><p>White said on Wednesday the Mint&#039;s recent supply was adequate to meet demand and allocation to dealers was no longer necessary.</p><p>Silver&nbsp; Eagles December sales were around 2 million ounces, sharply below its&nbsp; record of 6.4 million ounces set in January -- the highest monthly sales&nbsp; since the start of the American Eagle bullion coins in 1986.</p><p>Gold Eagles sales were at 65,000 ounces, about 20 percent below its monthly average this year, the Mint&#039;s data shows.</p><p>Bullion coins are mostly sold to investors, while the Mint also produces proof and uncirculated coins targeting collectors</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>28 December 2011,&nbsp; 1:26 p.m.&nbsp; </p><p>By <b>Kitco N</b><b>ews </b></p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; <a href="http://www.kitco.com/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.kitco.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.kitco.com/</a></p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; <b>(Kitco News)</b> -&nbsp; The US mint says that they&nbsp; will&nbsp; begin accepting orders for 2012 dated one ounce, half-ounce,&nbsp; quarter-ounce&nbsp; and tenth-ounce American Eagle gold and silver coins&nbsp; beginning Jan 3, 2012. All&nbsp; sized gold Eagle inventory left over from&nbsp; 2011 will be sold at discounted&nbsp; premiums to authorized purchasers,&nbsp; except for tenth-ounce coins which will be&nbsp; distributed by a 4:1 ratio&nbsp; when ordering 2012-dated coins, also to authorized&nbsp; purchasers. One&nbsp; ounce silver Eagles will only be distributed by 4:1 ratio, the&nbsp; mint&nbsp; says. Pick-ups for any coins ordered on Jan 3 can only be picked up Jan&nbsp; 6,&nbsp; the mint says. The mint says the American Buffalo one ounce gold&nbsp; coin will only&nbsp; be available in March.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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