AboutMyCoinJunk Silver Coins and What They Are Worth
Junk silver means common-date circulated silver coins with no collector premium, valued purely on metal content -- for United States 90% silver coinage that is about 0.715 troy ounces of silver per dollar of face value.
Junk silver coins are struck 1960–1964 and reach quarters.
Junk silver is a category collectors and dealers use in conversation rather than a fact stamped on a coin.
The name is unkind and the coins are not junk; the word only means they carry no premium above the metal. That is what makes them the simplest coins to value, because the sum is one multiplication with no judgement in it.
The standard shorthand: one dollar of face value in United States 90% silver dimes, quarters or half dollars contains 0.715 troy ounces of silver in practice. That is below the theoretical 0.7234 because circulated coins have lost metal to wear, and the trade prices them accordingly.
Junk silver coins
1960 Washington Quarter (No Mint Mark)
A 1960 Washington quarter with no mint mark was struck at Philadelphia, is 90% silver, and contains 0.1808 troy ounces of silver.
1960-D Washington Quarter
A 1960-D Washington quarter was struck at Denver, is 90% silver, and contains 0.1808 troy ounces of silver — the same metal, and the same value, as a 1960 quarter with no mint mark.
1961 Washington Quarter (No Mint Mark)
A 1961 Washington quarter with no mint mark was struck at Philadelphia, is 90% silver, and contains 0.1808 troy ounces of silver.
1961-D Washington Quarter
A 1961-D Washington quarter was struck at Denver, is 90% silver, and contains 0.1808 troy ounces of silver — the same metal, and the same value, as a 1961 quarter with no mint mark.
1962 Washington Quarter (No Mint Mark)
A 1962 Washington quarter with no mint mark was struck at Philadelphia, is 90% silver, and contains 0.1808 troy ounces of silver.
1962-D Washington Quarter
A 1962-D Washington quarter was struck at Denver, is 90% silver, and contains 0.1808 troy ounces of silver — the same metal, and the same value, as a 1962 quarter with no mint mark.
1963 Washington Quarter (No Mint Mark)
A 1963 Washington quarter with no mint mark was struck at Philadelphia, is 90% silver, and contains 0.1808 troy ounces of silver.
1963-D Washington Quarter
A 1963-D Washington quarter was struck at Denver, is 90% silver, and contains 0.1808 troy ounces of silver — the same metal, and the same value, as a 1963 quarter with no mint mark.
1964 Washington Quarter (No Mint Mark)
A 1964 Washington quarter with no mint mark was struck at Philadelphia, is 90% silver, and contains 0.1808 troy ounces of silver.
1964-D Washington Quarter
A 1964-D Washington quarter was struck at Denver, is 90% silver, and contains 0.1808 troy ounces of silver — the same metal, and the same value, as a 1964 quarter with no mint mark.
What the metal in these adds up to, with the weights and the arithmetic and none of the above, is melt value of Junk silver coins.