Set report · United States · Bullion
$50 Platinum Eagles: Who Owns What
How often each $50 Platinum Eagles coin actually turns up in a collection, measured by how many of the 63 collectors of this set have one. Coins are graded from Common to Extremely scarce against the set's most-owned coin — a measure of collecting frequency, not of how many survive.
Hardest to find in real collections
The five least-owned coins of the set — ownership counts are collector-reported.
…and the ones everybody has
Full set: ownership & rarity, coin by coin
Values by grade for each of these live on the $50 Platinum Eagles catalog pages and the full price guide.
| Coin | Mintage | Collectors | % of set collectors | How often collected |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | 20,500 | 60 | 95.2% | Common |
| 1997-W (Proof) | 15,431 | 7 | 11.1% | Very scarce |
| 1998 | 32,415 | 47 | 74.6% | Common |
| 1998-W (Proof) | 13,836 | 5 | 7.9% | Extremely scarce |
| 1999 | 32,309 | 45 | 71.4% | Uncommon |
| 1999-W (Proof) | 11,103 | 5 | 7.9% | Extremely scarce |
| 2000 | 18,892 | 49 | 77.8% | Common |
| 2000-W (Proof) | 11,049 | 6 | 9.5% | Extremely scarce |
| 2001 | 12,815 | 45 | 71.4% | Uncommon |
| 2001-W (Proof) | 8,254 | 6 | 9.5% | Extremely scarce |
| 2002 | 24,005 | 47 | 74.6% | Common |
| 2002-W (Proof) | 8,772 | 5 | 7.9% | Extremely scarce |
| 2003 | 17,409 | 46 | 73% | Common |
| 2003-W (Proof) | 7,131 | 5 | 7.9% | Extremely scarce |
| 2004 | 13,236 | 47 | 74.6% | Common |
| 2004-W (Proof) | 5,063 | 5 | 7.9% | Extremely scarce |
| 2005 | 9,013 | 46 | 73% | Common |
| 2005-W (Proof) | 5,942 | 5 | 7.9% | Extremely scarce |
| 2006 | 9,602 | 46 | 73% | Common |
| 2006-W (Proof) | 2,577 | 6 | 9.5% | Extremely scarce |
| 2007 | 7,001 | 48 | 76.2% | Common |
| 2007-W (Proof) | 21 | 6 | 9.5% | Extremely scarce |
| 2007-W Reversed (Proof) | — | 7 | 11.1% | Very scarce |
| 2007-W Frosted FREEDOM (Proof Variety) | — | 2 | 3.2% | Extremely scarce |
| 2007-W Burnished (Specimen) | — | 4 | 6.3% | Extremely scarce |
| 2008 | 14,000 | 50 | 79.4% | Common |
| 2008-W (Proof) | 4,020 | 5 | 7.9% | Extremely scarce |
| 2008-W Burnished (Specimen) | — | 2 | 3.2% | Extremely scarce |
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Based on the share of this set's collectors who own each coin — how often it turns up in a collection, not how many survive. Not the Sheldon rarity scale.
About these numbers
Ownership counts come from the same live per-coin counters shown across the LuckyCoin catalog; set-level collector counts come from the annual full-collection scan behind The State of Coin Collecting 2026. Counts are collector-reported and aggregate-only. Scarcity tiers come from 100 × (1 − owners ÷ owners of the set's most-owned coin): Common under 25, Uncommon 25–49, Scarce 50–74, Very scarce 75–89, Extremely scarce 90+. This reflects how often a coin is collected, not its surviving population — it is not the Sheldon rarity scale. CC BY 4.0 with attribution.