2017 American Silver Eagle San Francisco

Since 2001 the american silver eagle has been typically minted at the west point mint with occasional assistance from san francisco.

2017 american silver eagle san francisco. Ngc and coinworld the us mint has revealed production of 3 000 000 2017 silver eagle coins struck at the san francisco mint. The two sides of this coin are actually taken from two different artists. Thanks to freedom of information act lawsuits filed by numismatic guarantee corp. This new 2017 silver eagle will be certified by pcgs in pr69 condition in their brand new pcgs premier label.

For 2017 a special series of standard issue 2017 proof american silver eagle coins are being struck at the san francisco mint and feature the s mint mark. Meanwhile ngc had started to notice a difference in the quality of 2017 american silver eagles that suggested the coins were made at different facilities. The very first silver eagle was struck in san francisco in 1986 and after a stint at the west point mint the 2017 version some 30 years later is struck in san francisco again with an exclusive proof minting. This special label is the first of its kind to ever be produced by the graders over at pcgs and it will only be obtainable through us making it one of the most exclusive labels ever created in modern grading.

They believed the coins with the highest quality came from west point which uses robots to place coins in tubes while the philadelphia and san francisco mints manually tube their coins providing more opportunity for damage. As it turns out they were newly minted silver eagles straight out of the san francisco mint. Currently 2016 s and 2017 s mint silver eagles are beginning to appear but in much smaller numbers than before. Item 5 anacs ms69 san francisco mint 1 2017 american silver eagle coin 4 anacs ms69 san francisco mint 1 2017 american silver eagle coin 20 50 8 bids 6 00 shipping.

These coins are available from the united states mint as part of the congratulations set. The design of the 2017 silver eagle s proof 70. Nearly 17 million american eagle silver bullion coins were struck dated 2014 through 2017 at the philadelphia and san francisco mints augmenting the west point mint s output of nearly 108. Sd bullion has been able to obtain a very limited supply of mint sealed 2017 silver eagle coin monster boxes identified by serial number as being struck at the san francisco mint.

Posted on june 4 2017 by numismatic news staff the mint has poured a little cold water on recent efforts to determine mintages of recent silver american eagle bullion coins struck in san francisco and philadelphia.