Owner Comments:
1995-P Silver Eagle - Mintage: 438,511
Elsie Viola Kachel and the lawyer/poet Wallace Stevens were married in 1909 and sometime thereafter, they moved into an apartment in a brownstone on New York's lower west side. The building was owned by a German-born sculptor named Adolph Weinman. Weinman had a rooftop studio and asked Elsie to model for him around 1913. She was 27 at the time, and if my calculations are correct, that means she would have been born in 1886. It seems quite fitting then that Weinman's beautiful half dollar design was resurrected exactly 100 years later for the American Silver Eagle.
From NGC Coin Explorer:
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The Silver Eagle series celebrated it's tenth issue in 1995. Interest in the series was up due to the anniversary, and sales increased by about 30,000 over the previous year to just over 400,000.
The 1995 proof silver eagle issue is of a noticeably better quality than most other dates of the 1990's.
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I purchased this coin directly from the mint, and finally decided to submit it to NGC. I was hoping for better, but the grade was no big surprise considering that only 11 out of 100 receives the coveted PF70UC. On the positive side, it has no milk spots. So it goes.
Date acquired: 1995 (Directly from the U.S. Mint)
Date graded: 6/4/2021 (self submitted to NGC)
Rev. 6/4/2021