90% Silver dimes have a melt value of$2.3534this price is live and prices are updated every 15 minutes when the silver market is open. The current spot price of silver is$32.55per troy ounce. Q: What year are silver dimes? A: Coins minted before 1964 in the United States cointain (9...
As an example, when the silver dimes were last issued in 1964, the average price of an ounce of silver was $1.29. This gave each dime an intrinsic value of $.09 — less than their face value. More recently, however, silver had been performing well with the 2009 average coming in at...
The intrinsic value of the silver Mercury Dimes can be just as variable. Simply stated, the term "intrinsic" means the current value of the metals contained within a coin if it was melted down. As each of these coins is struck from a composition of 90% silver, their melt values will fl...
The U.S. Department of the Treasury has a regulation in prohibiting the melting of silver coins. Lately, there are also new regulations on the melting of presently circulating nickels and dimes. Such laws are meant to safeguard the US coinage and to buffer possible coin shortages. There are ...
By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com (Early Sunday Release) Financial writer and precious metals expert Bill Holter says forget about the relatively small sell-off in the gold and silver markets. The big worry shaking the markets is an enormous global credi