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90% silver · 1892–1916

Barber dime melt value

The Barber dime ran from 1892 to 1916 and holds the same 2.25 grams of silver as every 90% dime struck after it. Its dates and mintmarks, not its metal, are what separate a $3 coin from a $300 one.

Melt value, one coin

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0.0723 ozt silver · 90% silver

0.0723 ozt silver2.5 g at 90%

Silver content
0.0723 ozt
Struck weight
2.5 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.

Do not sell this coin by weight without checking it. Barber dimes are old enough that condition dominates. A worn one is bullion; a sharp one, and anything from 1894-S, is a collector coin first. Have the good ones looked at before they go in the melt pile.

Value a lot

Metal content only — not a dealer offer
coins

Count only barber dimes from 1892–1916. Coins outside those years look similar and hold different silver, or none.

Melt value of the lot

1.447 ozt of silver

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Face value of the lot

What the coins say they are worth

$2.00

Common lots

By face value, as the trade quotes it
LotBarber dimesSilverMelt value
$1 faceFour quarters100.72 ozt—
$5 faceA half roll of quarters503.62 ozt—
$10 faceA common small lot1007.23 ozt—
$50 faceA half bag50036.17 ozt—
$100 faceThe standard trading unit1,00072.34 ozt—

Before you sell

Barber dimes are old enough that condition dominates. A worn one is bullion; a sharp one, and anything from 1894-S, is a collector coin first. Have the good ones looked at before they go in the melt pile.

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

2.5 g × 90% ÷ 31.1035 = 0.0723 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 0.07234 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.