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90% silver · 1964 only

1964 Kennedy half dollar melt value

Only the 1964 Kennedy half is 90% silver. Struck in enormous numbers in the year of the assassination, it was hoarded immediately and rarely circulated.

Melt value, one coin

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0.3617 ozt silver · 90% silver

0.3617 ozt silver12.5 g at 90%

Silver content
0.3617 ozt
Struck weight
12.5 g
Silver spot
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Per $1 face
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The silver price shown was recorded when this page was published. Figures calculated from it appear once the live price loads, so nothing here is worked out from a number the market may have left behind.

Value a lot

Metal content only — not a dealer offer
coins

Count only 1964 kennedy half dollars from 1964 only. Coins outside those years look similar and hold different silver, or none.

Melt value of the lot

7.234 ozt of silver

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Face value of the lot

What the coins say they are worth

$10.00

Common lots

By face value, as the trade quotes it
Lot1964 Kennedy half dollarsSilverMelt value
$1 faceFour quarters20.72 ozt—
$5 faceA half roll of quarters103.62 ozt—
$10 faceA common small lot207.23 ozt—
$50 faceA half bag10036.17 ozt—
$100 faceThe standard trading unit20072.34 ozt—

Before you sell

The date does all the work here. 1964 is 90% silver, 1965–1970 is 40%, and 1971 onward is clad with no silver at all. Three coins that look nearly identical are worth three very different amounts.

Melt is a ceiling on the metal, not an offer. A buyer pays a share of it, and the spread between two buyers on the same lot is routinely wider than the entire premium difference this site tracks between bullion dealers.

How this is calculated

12.5 g × 90% ÷ 31.1035 = 0.3617 troy ounces of silver, multiplied by the live silver spot price.

The silver weight is derived from how the coin was struck rather than copied from a reference table, and a test pins it to the published figure of 0.36169 ozt.

Other US silver coin series

Same calculation, different weight

All 15 silver coin series we value, including the face-value calculator for pricing a mixed lot.