Burnished American Eagle Coins

Most people have never heard of the Burnished American Eagle MS70 coins and don't know how incredibly rare and undervalued they are! 

Introduced in 2006, investors may know them by their other name, "Uncirculated," but there is a lot of confusion about what that means. Many people see the MS70 grade and believe burnished coins are just bullion coins with a mint mark, but this is not correct. 

The U.S. Mint makes three versions of the American Eagles. The Mint makes a bullion version, a proof version, and the uncirculated "burnished" version. The burnished version is the smallest mintage of the three versions. 

The Burnished American Eagles are nearly fifty times rarer than the bullion version and about twice as rare as the famous and investor-friendly proof version. 

Compare the Silver American Eagle mintages of the last couple of years. Indeed, burnished coins are the rarest mintages. Like the Proof coins, only a fraction of the total mintage will become a perfect 70 condition.

With gold, the burnished numbers are even lower. The following chart shows the total one-ounce Gold American Eagle Bullion coins sold instead of minted. The burnished number represents the total mintage. Looking at the numbers this way is as generous as possible to the bullion mintage and as stringent to the burnished mintage. Despite the two different measures, the difference in population is still vast.

**U.S. Mint bullion sales by month
*U.S. Mint cummulative sales figures

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