1995-W Silver Eagle

Was only available in a set of gold coins, so not many knew about it, and not many could afford to buy the whol set of gold to get the silver.

Not very many of the coins were sold back in 1995, You needed to buy a 5 coin set the four gold eagles and the W Proof Silver eagle. The cost of the set was more than the 4 gold coin set and the 95P Proof Eagle do few bought the set. Later Dealers bought these set for the gold coins and disposed of the silver eagle. Most of the 95W are in the hands of collectors and it takes a high value to pry them loose.

Coinfacts shows 30k+ as the mintage. PCGS has only graded 3,633 95-W's. I wonder if the mintage is overstated by the mint and never corrected?

@bolivarshagnasty said:
Coinfacts shows 30k+ as the mintage. PCGS has only graded 3,633 95-W's. I wonder if the mintage is overstated by the mint and never corrected?

I have seen some crummy raw ones that would have gotten low grades like PR-66. For a coin like that PR-66 is a low grade. They are most all nice.

At any rate I think that this coin is vastly overpriced. The trend has been downward over the years, and I think that the only money that will be made from these coins will be realized by those who bought them at the lower levels years ago.

Yes there are a lot of collectors who keep up with these things, but as we saw on another thread the mint seems to have created a second Proof with a different mint mark that is a quickly sold out "rarity." If I were collecting these things my patience with such games would be running thin. You might same common ones for the silver content, but as collectors' items, fix is in.

@bolivarshagnasty said:
If the mintage truly was 30k, then it would be risky to buy or own one at these levels. ($3600 PF68DCAM) How many moderns have fallen off the cliff when the true demand versus availability is sorted out? In fairness, it has been 20+ years. Are there really 30,000 Collectors out there clamoring for a chance at the 95-W?

By contrast, the Old Spanish Trail, mintage 10k, can be had in MS66 for $1500.

I have not doubt that there are far more collectors working on set of SAEs than the classic commemorative coins.

I bought 3 sets and after the prices stagnated, I sold for a small profit. Should have bought more and held!

Worthless thread w/o a picture!

I have all the '95W gold and silver coins slabbed...assembled the hard way... since at the time of the set offering, I thought $995? No way.... Gold was much cheaper then and when I received the mint flyer, neither the ASE mint mark or mintage registered in my mind.... way to busy with work and other things. It is a regret I revisit frequently. Cheers, RickO

I appropriated my uncle's '95W set, so got it for free!

Yes, you bought the Gold set for a grand and got the 1995W silver for free. Wished I bought a bunch back then.

$999 it was. For less the $400 worth of metal, so yeah, it was a big deal to buy them. Like others here, I knew it would be a low mintage set BECAUSE you had to buy the gold to get the ASE but I actually didn't realize how low it was until a few years later.

Incidentally, melt on that set is about $2100 now.

Several years ago I had the entire set in NGC PF 70 DCAM except the 1995W and 1993. I bought the 1995W for $2800 in 08. I sold the entire se in 2012 for almost the same amount that I purchased them all separately. I also sold the 1995w for around $2800 right before they increased in value to around $4500.