Weight of silver coins?
I think the year was 1968, and you can correct me if I am wrong, but the year they the US and Canadian coins were no longer made out of silver.
For the coins that were made of silver, can you please help me with the following question(s)
How many nickels does it take to make an ounce of silver?
How many dimes does it take to make an ounce of silver?
How many quarters does it take to make an ounce of silver?
Thank you
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American silver coins:
* Dimes through Half Dollars, through 1964, 90% silver
* Half Dollars, 1965-70, 40% silver
Canadian silver coins:
* Dimes through Silver Dollars, through 1966, 80% silver. (Very early dimes, quarters, and half dollars, through 1919, are 92.5% Sterling silver.)
* Half Dollars and Silver Dollars, 1967 commemoratives, 80% silver.
* Dimes and Quarters, 1967 commemoratives, either 80% or 50% silver (changed in mid-year to the lower percentage, and extremely difficult to tell apart from one another).
* Dimes and Quarters, 1968, 50% silver. (To add to the possibility of confusion, some Canadian dimes and quarters in this year were also minted in nickel; the silver coins have a "softer" patina and are non-magnetic, while the nickel coins look "shinier" and are attracted to a magnet.)
There were a few coins minted in 40% or 50% silver a short time later, such as some US Eisenhower Silver Dollars and Canadian Silver Dollars minted in the early 1970s, respectively, but those were specimen or proof coins not intended for circulation; the circulated coins, from dimes to dollars, were all made of copper-nickel or nickel during that period.
Today, both nations still issue some silver coins, but these are also not intended for circulation - they’re either bullion coins or coins issued for collectors, and they’re sold at a considerable premium to face value.
As noted in another answer, the only time that *Nickels* were silver was in the US, during World War II (1942-45). Those coins have large reverse mintmarks, P, D, or S, above the Monticello dome. They are also often darker - due to their metal composition and particularly from subsequent tarnish - than other nickels.
As-minted silver nickels contain 35% silver, 0.563 Troy ounces of actual silver weight per coin. You’d need just under 18 silver nickels to have 1 Troy ounce of pure silver.
Other than those "silver nickels," other US 5 cent coins are made from copper-nickel, not silver, even though they may at a first glance look somewhat "silver-colored."
As for dimes and quarters, the *as minted* silver contents are:
* US 90% silver dimes (1964 and earlier), .0724 Troy ounces per coin (you’d need approximately 14 coins to have about 1 Troy ounce of pure silver).
* US 90% silver quarters (1964 and earlier), .1809 Troy ounces per coin (5.5 coins for 1 Troy ounce).
* Canadian 80% silver dimes (1966 and earlier, plus some 1967s), .06 Troy ounces per coin (about 16-17 coins per Troy ounce)
* Canadian 50% silver dimes (some 1967s and all non-magnetic 1968s), .0372 Troy ounces per coin (about 27 coins per Troy ounce)
* Canadian 80% silver quarters (1966 and earlier, plus some 1967s), .15 Troy ounces per coin (just under 7 coins per Troy ounce)
* Canadian 50% silver quarters (some 1967s and all non-magnetic 1968s), .0937 Troy ounces per coin (about 11 coins per Troy ounce)
Note that these values are for "as minted" uncirculated coins. In circulation, silver coins can often lose anywhere from 1-5% of their weight, simply from wear over time. That means that, if you’re trying to accurately determine the silver content of a large number of circulated silver coins, you’ll need to weigh them on an accurate scale - probably one that can measure to the nearest gram or 2 gram weight - convert the gram weight to Troy ounces (you can do this by searching on "xx grams in troy ounces" in Google, where "xx" is the weight in grams) - and multiply by the silver content (e.g. by 50% or 0.5, 80% or 0.8, or 90% or 0.9) to get the actual silver content in Troy ounces.
A great site to find current silver metal values of both US and Canadian silver coins:
http://www.coinflation.com
The only time US nickels had silver in them was during WWII. Nickels minted from 1942 thru 1945 were composed of 56% copper, 35% silver and 9% magnese. It would make 18 nickels to make an ounce of silver.
The key year in the US was 1964 that was the last year quarters and dimes were made of 90% silver. It would take 6 quarters and 14 dimes to get an ounce of silver.