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Junk silver calculator

Every U.S. silver coin type, priced by count at live spot.

Count your coins, and this page prices the silver in them. The spot price is prefilled with $68.58 per troy ounce (as of August 27, 2026) and can be overridden with any price you like.

Total silver
0.000 ozt
Melt value
$0.00
Face value
$0.00

A worked example

One roll each of silver dimes (50), quarters (40) and 1964 halves (20):

CoinsSilver Melt value
50 × Roosevelt Silver Dime3.617 ozt$248.04
40 × Washington Silver Quarter7.234 ozt$496.08
20 × 1964 Kennedy Half Dollar7.234 ozt$496.08
Total ($25 face value)18.085 ozt $1,240.20

Mint weight or the 0.715 convention?

This calculator uses mint weights: each coin's exact silver content as struck. Dealers pricing circulated 90% coin by the bag instead use a convention of 0.715 troy ounces per $1 of face value (about 1.2% under the minted 0.7234 ozt) to allow for wear. Both figures are shown in the face-value table; for lightly circulated coins the truth sits between them.

What "times face" means

At $68.58 silver, circulated 90% coin is worth about 49.0 times face value - a $1 face value in silver dimes is $49.03 of metal. The times-face page tracks this multiplier.

Melt value is the floor, not an appraisal. Coins with collector value trade above their metal content, and dealers buy below melt and sell above it to earn a margin. This site publishes the metal arithmetic only - never buy or sell quotes, and never price predictions.