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American Silver Eagle

THE US ONE-OUNCE SILVER BULLION COIN, 1986 TO 2024

40 issues ◆ 1986–2024
Melt, per coin: $54.09 Live · updated 04:00 UTC
American Silver Eagle obverse: Walking Liberty, date 2022
American Silver Eagle Type 1 reverse: heraldic eagle behind a shield
Plate. 2022 American Silver Eagle obverse (United States Mint image), obverse and reverse. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. The design is the same on every date.
Key dates
  1. 1996$90⁠–⁠$120

Prices are MS-63 estimates, Oct 2026. A photograph appears below where we hold a public-domain photo of that exact date and mint; other issues show a medallion here, and their page shows the nearest type coin, labelled.

Silver Eagle40 issues

1980s

4 issues
1986 Silver Eagle 5.39M struck from $65
1987 Silver Eagle 11.44M struck from $65
1988 Silver Eagle 5M struck from $65
1989 Silver Eagle 5.2M struck from $65

1990s

10 issues
1990 Silver Eagle 5.84M struck from $65
1991 Silver Eagle 7.19M struck from $65
1992 Silver Eagle 5.54M struck from $65
1993 Silver Eagle 6.76M struck from $65
1994 Silver Eagle 4.23M struck from $65
1995 Silver Eagle 4.67M struck from $65
Key date
1996 Silver Eagle 3.6M struck from $65
1997 Silver Eagle 4.3M struck from $65
1998 Silver Eagle 4.85M struck from $65
1999 Silver Eagle 7.41M struck from $65

2000s

10 issues
2000 Silver Eagle 9.24M struck from $65
2001 Silver Eagle 9M struck from $65
2002 Silver Eagle 10.54M struck from $65
2003 Silver Eagle 8.5M struck from $65
2004 Silver Eagle 8.88M struck from $65
2005 Silver Eagle 8.89M struck from $65
2006 Silver Eagle 10.68M struck from $65
2007 Silver Eagle 9.03M struck from $65
2008 Silver Eagle 20.58M struck from $65
2009 Silver Eagle 30.46M struck from $65

2010s

10 issues
2010 Silver Eagle 34.76M struck from $65
2011 Silver Eagle 39.86M struck from $65
2012 Silver Eagle 33.74M struck from $65
2013 Silver Eagle 42.67M struck from $65
2014 Silver Eagle 44.01M struck from $65
2015 Silver Eagle 47M struck from $65
2016 Silver Eagle 37.7M struck from $65
2017 Silver Eagle 18.07M struck from $65
2018 Silver Eagle 15.7M struck from $65
2019 Silver Eagle 14.86M struck from $65

2020s

6 issues
2020 Silver Eagle 31.33M struck from $65
2021 (Type 1) Type 1 13.31M struck from $65
2021 (Type 2) Type 2 14.97M struck from $65
2022 Silver Eagle 15.96M struck from $65
2023 Silver Eagle 24.75M struck from $65
2024 Silver Eagle 22.86M struck from $65

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Values are Lustre editorial estimate, Oct 2026, not market data. Medallions stand in for issues without a photograph of that exact date; each value page shows a labelled type coin. How we estimate.

About the series

The American Silver Eagle, in brief

The American Silver Eagle is the official silver bullion coin of the United States. It has been struck every year since 1986 in one troy ounce of .999 silver with a face value of one dollar. The obverse is Adolph A. Weinman's Walking Liberty from the 1916 half dollar. The reverse, a heraldic eagle by John Mercanti, was replaced in 2021 by Emily Damstra's eagle landing on a branch, known as Type 2. Lustre lists the bullion strikes only, one issue per year, from 1986 to 2024. Proof and burnished uncirculated versions are separate coins and are not included.

A Silver Eagle is worth its silver plus a premium, so its price moves with the silver price. Condition rarely matters for bullion coins. The exceptions are the low-mintage years 1994, 1995 and 1996, and to a lesser degree the first year, 1986, which carry a premium in high Mint State grades.

Designer
Adolph A. Weinman (obverse); John Mercanti, then Emily Damstra (reverse)
Composition
99.9% silver
Mint marks
None (bullion coin)
Key dates
1996

American Silver Eagle, Wikipedia: composition, weight, diameter, edge, designers, mint history.

American Silver Eagle mintage figures, Wikipedia: bullion mintage by year.

American Silver Eagle mintages, SilverEagleGuide.com: cross-check of bullion mintage by year.

Lustre editorial grade-value estimates, Lustre: grade value ranges (estimates, not market data).

gold-api.com spot prices (reference level for estimates), gold-api.com: reference spot prices behind the estimates.