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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Sorry for asking such a basic question but how many 90% silver quarters, dimes, half dollars and dollars does it take to equal one ounce? For example...5 quarters = 1 ounce? 10 dimes = ? and so on. I want to try to figure up how many ounces of silver I have and I don't know how many of each it takes to equal one ounce. Thanks for your help.
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The easiest way is to work out the total face value of your coins. $1 face value of .900 fine silver coins, whether they be dimes, quarters, halves or whole silver dollars, contains .7736 troy ounces. Inverting that figure, you'd theoretically need $1.2926 face value to make an ounce.
To break it down into whole numbers for the smaller denominations:
- 13 dimes is slightly over an ounce.
- 5 quarters is slightly under an ounce.
Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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Canada
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Ok, correct me if I'm wrong Silver dimes are .07234 oz. pure silver Silver quarters .18084 oz. pure silver Silver halves .36169 oz. pure silver Silver dollars .77344 oz. pure silver So maybe 4 quarters and 4 dimes gets you a little over an ounce 1.01272 This is just for the 90% silver coins Hope this helps  |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Don't forget wear. Unless you saying Uncirculated coins, almost any coin that was circulated has lost wieght due to wear. I've seen some old Silver coins worn so thin you would think you could read a paper through them. Slight exageration. I would think it possible for a ocin to have lost as much as 30% of it's weight in some instances due to wear.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Using the face value multiplier for bags, $1 dollar of dimes, quarters, and half dollars will contain roughly 0.715 oz of silver which accounts for a bit of wear loss. Silver dollars contain a bit more silver than the equivalent dollar amount of lesser coins.
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biokemist: Maybe that's why back then every dollar counted. I look at the Canadian equivalent and every dime, quarter, and half-dollar is always equal to a silver dollar. The American way may have made more trade, even though the Canadian model was more sensical. The American way encouraged, via this incentive, for everybody to make money from their money. Thinking deeper on this, perhaps this was the origin of weird prices like $.95, $.99.....etc.......then again the American is 90% and the Canadian is 80% so the American is worth more.
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01/19/2011 12:47 pm
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Sap, not sure about your math. 13 silver dimes comes to just under a full ounce, not over (.94042 oz). Actually 5 sliver quarters has less silver (.9042) than 13 silver dimes.
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United States
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My 2 cents worth ? are you talking oz to oz. or troy oz. New to forum and still learning
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
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So...just to make sure I am on the right page...Lets say I have $100 face value of 90% silver. How many ounces would that be? I guess it may depend on if I have $100 worth of Morgans or $100 in silver dimes? I promise I am usually not this slow...this is just hard for me to comprehend for some reason...
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United States
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There is a website called (124) Not Allowed - Auto-Removed which tells silver content of each US and Canadian coin and also has content for gold and clad. Very convenient since it also updates with pricing and says the melt value.
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United States
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Would someone mind explaining the reason that an informational website with metal content of coins is blocked from being able to be posted? Thanks.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Lets say I have $100 face value of 90% silver. How many ounces would that be? For circulated dimes, quarters, and half dollars, you can expect to have 715 troy ounces of silver in $100 face. That is the standard amount used for calculating the price of face value bags. Quote:
Would someone mind explaining the reason that an informational website with metal content of coins is blocked from being able to be posted? The person running that site is an obnoxious spammer and persona non grata around here. Edited by biokemist6
01/20/2011 02:09 am
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United States
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I usally use the silver calculator at coin melt, it has US and Canadian coins by denomanation on it. You just click what coin and how many it will show the value to pretty close up to date spot price. I will post a link to it but dont want to get in to troubel about it. I had no problems with it so far in regards to spam or anything else.
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Bedrock of the Community
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My 2 cents worth ? are you talking oz to oz. or troy oz. New to forum and still learning
Precious metals such as silver should always be weighed in troy ounces (that's how spot price is denominated). A troy ounce is 31.1 grams (actually a hair over that but it's very close). With U.S. coinage, silver dollars do contain a bit more silver than fractional coinage (dimes, quarters, halves). As minted the following applies: Dimes: 0.0723 troy ounces. Quarters: 0.1808 troy ounces Halves: 0.3617 troy ounces Dollars: 0.7734 troy ounces These weights apply to U.S. coinage from the 1870's to 1964. Older coins had slightly different weights. |
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At time of minting, US 90% silver dimes, quarters, and half dollars contain 0.7234 Toz of silver per $1 face and 90% silver dollars (since the Morgans) contain 0.7734 Toz of silver, including modern commemorative dollars. As several have said, bags of dimes, quarters, and half dollars are usually sold as containing 0.715 Toz per $1 face, presumably to account for wear (of about 1.2%). While Troy ounces should always be assumed when dealing with precious metals one must be alert to less than honest advertisers selling products that contain silver or gold and mixing their weights. One avoirdupois ounce ~ 28.35 grams and one Troy ounce ~ 31.10 grams. There is also confusion about pounds, there are 16 avdp ounces in an avdp pound but only 12 Troy ounces in a Troy pound, so there are about 13.16 Troy ounces in an avdp pound. Often large medals are specified in avdp pounds to make the buyer think they are getting more ounces than they really are because people might think that they are getting 8 Troy ounces when they are only getting 6.58. Half a Troy pound would only be 6 Troy ounces. The ounce thing can and is often misunderstood and misused so I always try to get gram numbers as well to cross check.
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