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Money Trail: A $32.8 million United States Mint silver order went to StoneX Financial Ltd on October 13
STONEX FINANCIAL LTD received a $32,756,349.15 contract action from the United States Mint on October 13, 2026 for silver raw material, in the Treasury week compiled from USAspending records dated October 9 to 15, 2026.
Key takeaways
- STONEX FINANCIAL LTD received $32,756,349.15 from the Department of the Treasury on October 13, 2026, award 2031JG27F56093.
- The awarding sub agency is the United States Mint, and the record describes the purpose as silver raw material, Mint MAC silver bullion.
- A second Mint order to the same recipient for $32,735,314.45 was recorded the same day, and the Treasury obligated $94,048,343.73 across 54 transactions that week.
What the record says, line by line
One order quietly took the top Treasury spot that week. The line most summaries skipped is the material itself: silver raw material for the Mint MAC silver bullion program. The Mint buys metal before it can strike and sell bullion products, and this delivery order, 2031JG27F56093, is funding placed against an existing Mint contract rather than a stand alone purchase announced on its own.
The Treasury total for the October 9 to 15 window was $94,048,343.73 across 54 contract transactions, per the Ledger contractors file. The two StoneX silver orders together account for most of that Treasury total for the week. That concentration is the story: when the Mint is restocking silver, a small number of metal orders can dominate a department contract week that otherwise contains dozens of smaller actions.
How this compares with the rest of the week
The largest single action overall that week was an $81,138,891.00 Energy Department laboratory action recorded on October 15, followed by a $76,117,128.00 NASA delivery order on October 14. Readers who followed the Money Trail on Monday saw the Energy name in full. Today the trail leads to a metal supplier to the Mint in the Treasury records.
Followers get one named recipient, every day, with the exact figure and the agency attached. Tomorrow the Money Trail picks up the next name the records surface, and the Ledger will name it with the same exact figure standard.
Data vintage: USAspending contract transactions with action dates from October 9 to 15, 2026, compiled in the Ledger contractors file dated October 19, 2026. Figures are net federal action obligation per transaction in that period. Recipient name is shown in the article headline in title case and in the body exactly as STONEX FINANCIAL LTD as listed in the source record.
Sources
1. USAspending.gov award record for STONEX FINANCIAL LTD, award 2031JG27F56093: https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_2031JG27F56093_2044_2031JG21D00023_2044/
2. U.S. Department of the Treasury, Fiscal Data, Debt to the Penny dataset: https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/datasets/debt-to-the-penny/debt-to-the-penny
Source: U.S. Department of the Treasury, Daily Treasury Statement, September 28, 2026; Debt to the Penny.
Sources and methodology
Methodology. Daily cash figures are from the U.S. Treasury’s Daily Treasury Statement (DTS) for September 28, 2026, the government’s official daily cash-flow report. The DTS records money actually moving in and out of Treasury accounts; it is not the same as the budget deficit, which is measured monthly on an accrual-adjusted basis.
- U.S. Department of the Treasury, Daily Treasury Statement – operating cash balance, September 28, 2026 (fiscaldata.treasury.gov)
- U.S. Department of the Treasury, Debt to the Penny – September 28, 2026 (fiscaldata.treasury.gov)
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