Silver Eagle collection - what is rare?

The widow of a my FIL's best friend showed me a glimpse of some of the coin collections he had amassed over the years. Among them was a collection of Silver Eagles. It looked like he had at least one from every year, but I just got a quick glance at the collection, so I'm not sure exactly what was in it. My question to the numatists here is, what ASE year/privy might be rare and more valuable than the rest?

She plans to take the coin collections to a coin shop eventually. I just want to help her be a little bit informed so she is treated fairly.

'94's and '96's were the lowest mintage years, iirc.

'96 was like 3 million or so

Key Dates

1986 Silver Eagle - The inaugural year
1994 Silver Eagle - The lowest mintage
1996 Silver Eagle - one of the rarest in the series

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Bottom Feeder said:

Key Dates

1986 Silver Eagle - The inaugural year
1994 Silver Eagle - The lowest mintage
1996 Silver Eagle - one of the rarest in the series

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'96 was the lowest mintage year. '94 is #2

3,603,386 in '96 vs. 4,227,319 in '94 with '97 being a close third with 4,295,004 and '95 being a close fourth with 4,672,051

Downside on the '94's and '96's are that those years were the worst for milk spots. So if there are any of those that she has that are in good shape and have no milk spots, they should be worth a bit more. MS70's in those years are rare.


Edited to add: on APMEX, '94's are goin' for $130.03 and '96's for $157.03