Junk Silver

Junk Silver



Junk Silver is the term used to describe US quarters, dimes, and half dollars

produced up to 1964. These Junk Silver coins are composed of 90 percent silver,

with the remaining 10 percent of the Junk Silver coins being composed of copper.

Most Junk Silver coins are merely worth their weight in silver, though that

does make a junk silver coin many times more valuable than a non-silver US coin.



The most common Junk Silver coins are as follows: the Barber, or Liberty Head

Junk Silver dime, produced from 1892 to 1916, the Winged Liberty Head or Mercury

Dime, produced from 1916 to 1945 is a popular Junk Silver Coin, the Roosevelt

Junk Silver Dime, produced from 1946 to 1964, the Barber, or Liberty Head Junk

Silver Quarter, produced from 1892 to 1916, the Standing Liberty Junk Silver

Quarter, produced from 1916 to 1930, the Washington Junk Silver Quarter, produced

from 1932 to 1964, the Barber or Liberty Head Half Dollar Junk Silver coin,

produced from 1892 to 1915, the Walking Liberty Half Dollar Junk Silver coin

produced from 1916 to 1947, the Franklin Half Dollar Junk Silver coin produced

from 1948 to 1963, and the Kennedy Half Dollar Junk Silver Coin, produced in

1964.



Dime Junk Silver coins contain .07234 of a troy ounce of pure silver. Quarter

Junk Silver coins contain .18084 of a troy ounce of pure silver. Half Dollar

Junk Silver coins contain .36169 of a troy ounce of pure silver. This means

that 5 Junk Silver dimes contain the same amount of pure silver as a Junk Silver

half dollar or the silver content 2 Junk Silver quarters. There are some key

dates in these Junk Silver coins that can make them much more valuable than

a standard Junk Silver coin. These include the 1916 Mercury Head Junk Silver

Dime with a D mint mark, but not the 1916 Mercury Head Junk Silver dime with

no mint mark or an S mint mark, as those are both very common coins. Both the

1932 S mint and D mint Washington Junk Silver quarters are key dates, while

the 1932 Junk Silver Washington quarter without the mint mark is a very common

quarter. Either way, with a key date or not, Junk Silver quarters, dimes and

half dollars are worth looking out for, because their silver content gives than

an intrinsic value well beyond their mere face values.



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