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Demand for silver bullion coins remained strong, surging late in the year. Almost 44 million ounces of gold, silver, and platinum bullion were sold in FY 2016, a slight decrease from the record-setting 49 million ounces sold in FY 2015.
In FY 2016, the Mint sold 45,163,000 ounces of bullion, down 4,585,000 ounces (9.2%) from the previous, record-breaking year. Revenue from the bullion program dropped from FY 2015’s $2,126.1 million to $2,085.3 million—a decrease of 1.9%. Net income for FY 2016 was $55.3 million, down 9.3% from $61 million.
Gold Bullion—Gold-bullion sales stayed flat compared to FY 2015, coming in at 1,018 thousand ounces. This includes a 1.1% increase in American Gold Eagle ounces and a 4.3% drop in gold Buffalo ounces. Revenue from gold bullion increased overall by 3.7%, to $1,277.9 million, thanks to a 5.5% increase in AGE revenue. Gold Buffalo revenue, however, dropped by 3.2%. From a net-income perspective, gold bullion decreased $1.2 million (4.6%), thanks to a $0.9 million (4.1%) drop in AGE earnings. Gold Buffalo earnings fell by $0.3 million (6.7%).
Silver Bullion—Silver-bullion sales dropped by 9.4%, to 44,125,000 ounces. American Silver Eagle sales, in particular, fell by 11.3% compared to 2015. Net income from silver bullion decreased by 10.8%, thanks to a $4.1 million drop in ASE earnings—this despite a $0.3 million (37.5%) increase in earnings for America the Beautiful 5-ounce silver bullion coins. The better part of ATB sales came from the year’s first issue, the Shawnee National Forest coin. Shawnee’s sales (525,000 ounces) were the highest for any single ATB 5-ounce coin since the 2011 Glacier National Park and Gettysburg Military Park issues (at 633,500 ounces each). ASE revenue was down by $120.2 million (13.7%) in FY 2016, while ATB revenue was up by $14.1 million (91%). The overall effect was an 11.9% decrease in silver revenue for the year.
Platinum Bullion—According to the annual report, the Mint was able to resume production of platinum bullion in FY 2016 because it finally found a supplier of platinum that could meet the Mint’s delivery requirements. (Prior to 2016, the Mint had not produced an American Eagle Platinum coin since the spring of FY 2014.) The resulting APE coins sold out entirely, with more than 17,000 units being sold within the first 24 hours of their release. The 20,000 ounces of platinum bullion sold generated $22.6 million in revenue, but a net loss of $1.1 million.
http://mintnewsblog.com/u-s-mint-releases-annual-report-for-fy-2016/
Told you guys 1.5 yrs ago that no lie will stand now that Neptune is home in the house of truth…Pisces.
This is why the news is so repulsive now, the ugly truth is emerging along with Pluto Capricorn, soon Saturn joins in Capricorn (winter solstice 2017) and hot damn its going to be the end of the powers that be, due to the truth.
Pluto our soul mate who loves us so much he will put on elbow length latex gloves and stick his arm up our ass to pull out that which is diseased. He loves us so much he will kill us if it is for our own good. We can see 6000 yrs, 3000 back and 3000 forward and their is no other time like this time. I guess you are seeing daily the amazing events, almost like a horror show/love story all in one at one time.
No more revolutions Pluto/Uranus out of orb.
Now it is cleaning the nasty crap. When you clean the closet at the end you get all the ugly stuff at the bottom, where we are now.
2020 we have a whole new financial system, the wars are done. I suspect no more American Empire, it will be a shared world most likely USA, China, Russia.
Do what you like, but the outcome will be the same.