1996 Half Pound Kennedy Half Dollar .999 Pure Silver

d is the abreviation for the old english penny. Which was supposed to weigh 1.56g or one pennyweight.

I have been saying it for years. Humans are NOT happy unless they are making things more confusing then they need to be, or wrapping things up in red tape....

There is a standard measuring system, Troy ounces are universal for bullion while pennyweight is typically used for small bits of scrap jewelry that tend to weigh much less than 1oz. Both units are linked to the Grain, with 24 grains/pennyweight and 480 grains/troy ounce. The problem is getting everyone to use the proper standards already in place.

Please don't cornfuzz things. It's not 75% silver, it's 75% of an ounce. The silver % is still 90.


This is why people have problems with metric. There is no "convert". If you want to know the metric weight, press the gram button and weigh it.


Once all the errors cancel out, maybe, but for the wrong reason.
0.715 troy oz of silver (which is the content of two silver halves) x spot = value of silver in those halves. I have no clue why you'd divide by 20.

If you divide the spot by 20, you'd get the silver value per dwt.


There is 0.2958 oz of silver in two clad Kennedies or four 40% quarters. There is 0.3162 troy ounces of silver in one 40% silver Ike dollar.

This nonsense is complicated enuf, don't make it worse.

There is one standard measuring system for weighing precious metals and it's been around for millennia. It's troy ounces. One troy oz is 20 dwt or 480 grains. Twelve tr oz or 240 dwt or 5760 grains = one tr #.


LSD stands for pounds (£), shillings, and pence (d). If you go to the hardware store and ask for four penny or ten penny nails, you'll see 4d or 10d on the box.

You've heard of the British £, or pound sterling. Originally, one troy pound of sterling silver = a pound of money. A £ was 20 shillings containing 12 pence each, or 240 pence per £. Each penny weighed 1/240 of a #, and that was a "pennyweight (dwt).


By regular , it simply means the avoirdupois weights that are used for everything but PM. When you talk about weighing PM, forget about everything but troy weights, and leave your regular scales at the door.


See above.


Grams, mg, kg, etc, are the metric system, used by scientists to make math simpler. When you enter the chem lab, use grams. They have nothing to do with PM unless you're doing chem work.

Grams didn't even exist until a couple centuries ago.

Don't take my word for it, find a Bible online and search for gram or grams. Ain't there.

Technical. There is no "supposed". A dwt is a dwt. You can weigh a dwt on a gram scale, just like you can measure a square yard of carpet in meters, but that only changes the weight system, not the weight.


If we're going to use one system, it would be the metric system, used almost everywhere but the US, which has fought it repeatedly.


No need.

Dwt and troy oz and grains are all part of the same system, like mills, cents, dimes and dollars.

Carats are metric.

Hundredweight (cwt) is a hundred av #.