Most valuable modern silver commemorative?

Was looking in the 2022 Red Book and question occurred to me. Paged through looking at values. Was surprised by the answer. Take a guess without peeking. Single coins of 1 ounce or less only … no sets, medals, errors or 5-oz pucks!

Cal

 

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Proof Apollo half.... Just a guess.

 

If you've got an Apollo half struck in silver, yeah, it's going to be valuable.

 

I'll venture a guess that it's my favorite modern......

 

The Missouri is pretty hard to find at a good price.

 

The proofs weren’t silver? Dang now I got to go dig out my safe and see!

 

I'll guess it's one of the many Olympic coins. Low mintage, low interest at the time combined with too many designs.

 

I would agree with this one.

 

The only silver 50 cent pieces from the 'modern' era commems are the 1982 George Washington and the 1993 Bill of Rights half dollars. Wish there were more.

 

Yep… I dug mine out of the safe. I had to eat a little crow on that one!

 

Don’t beat yourself up, Randy. It looks silver, right? We’ll give you a pass on this one.

 

Are you asking in terms of just the generic raw ones or graded as well?

 

I'm thinking the 1995 W ASE.

 

Just re-read the title, I'll change my guess to Yellowstone

 

The 2001 Buffalo is usually up there but it's not the highest from what I recall.
Some of the 1996 Olympics used to hold the record and that would be my guess (don't recall which one though).

If we include silver eagles, then I would think the 1995-W Proof followed by the 2019-S Enhanced Reverse Proof.

 

Yup, 1996D high jump silver dollar. ASEs are bullion coins, not commems. 1995/6 was the time that a lot of folks gave up on modern commems because there were so many issued in a short time.

Cal

 

Yup, 1996D high jump silver dollar.

 

While not commemoratives only some are bullion coins. Plenty of them are anything but bullion.

 

Wow, there's a few of those Olympiad commems that are up there. I never paid any attention to this series!

 

1995 W Silver Eagle Proof is my guess. Oops, not a commemorative, never mind.

New guess is 1983 Olympics proof dollar.