Quarters and halves
Silver quarter value: what is a 90% silver quarter worth?
Type how many silver quarters you have: the tool gives the pure silver they hold and its value at the live price, which you can replace with your own.
How much are my silver quarters worth?
Melt value of 4 coins
$39.06
| One coin | $9.76 |
| Face value | $1 |
| Pure silver | 0.723 troy oz |
At silver $53.94 per troy oz (last price read).
A quarter dated 1964 or earlier weighs 6.25 grams and is 90% silver, so it holds 0.1808 troy ounce of pure silver. At $53.94 an ounce, the price read on October 27, 2026, that is about $9.76 of metal in one coin. Four of them, one dollar of face value, contain 0.7234 ounce. Quarters dated 1965 and later are copper-nickel clad, weigh 5.67 grams and hold about 8.3¢ of metal, which is why a single date line separates a coin worth twenty-five cents from one worth many times more. The test takes a second: read the date, then look at the edge, where a clad quarter shows a copper stripe and a silver one does not. Most silver quarters found today are Washington quarters of 1932 to 1964, struck by the hundreds of millions, so their value is the silver; the few scarce dates are listed on the rare quarters page.
Washington quarter: year, mint and metal
Metal value of one 1932 coin
$9.76
| Struck at this mint | 436,800 |
| Mintage band | Very low mintage (under 1 million) |
| Metal | 90% silver quarter |
| Mint mark on the coin | D |
Pieces made in the calendar year; for most years this is also the date on the coin. At silver $53.94 per troy oz (last price read).
Mintages, metals and prices read by Radif Partners · Editorial policy · Method
The date line of 1964
Every quarter struck for circulation up to the 1964 date is 90% silver and 10% copper, 6.25 grams, as the Bureau of the Mint tables record. From 1965 the quarter became a clad coin: two outer layers of 75% copper and 25% nickel bonded to a pure copper core, 5.67 grams in all according to the Mint’s coin specifications. Coins dated 1964 kept being struck in silver into 1966, which is why the 1964 figures are so high: 544,470,762 at Philadelphia and 704,135,528 at Denver.
| Quarter | Metal | Weight | Silver | Metal value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1964 and earlier | 90% silver | 6.25 g | 0.1808 oz | $9.76 |
| 1776-1976 S, collector | 40% silver | 5.75 g | 0.0739 oz | $4.04 |
| 1965 and later | copper-nickel clad | 5.67 g | none | 8.3¢ |
Three ways to spot a silver quarter
- The date. 1964 or earlier means silver, with the single exception of collector coins struck later in silver, which carry an S.
- The edge. Silver quarters have a uniform silver edge. Clad quarters show a reddish copper band between two white layers.
- The weight. 6.25 grams for silver, 5.67 grams for clad. A scale that reads to a hundredth of a gram separates them, even when the date is worn.
The weight test is the one to trust when the date is worn smooth or the edge is dirty. Weigh several coins together and divide, which evens out the small scale errors of kitchen scales.
Is any silver quarter worth more than its silver?
A few. Among Washington quarters, the 1932 coins from Denver and San Francisco were struck in numbers under half a million each. Older Standing Liberty and Barber quarters include more small issues. The tool below reads the figure for any Washington quarter by year and mint, and the rare quarters page ranks the lowest of all.
Washington quarter: year, mint and metal
Metal value of one 1932 coin
$9.76
| Struck at this mint | 436,800 |
| Mintage band | Very low mintage (under 1 million) |
| Metal | 90% silver quarter |
| Mint mark on the coin | D |
Pieces made in the calendar year; for most years this is also the date on the coin. At silver $53.94 per troy oz (last price read).
For everything else, the silver is the value. Prices come from gold-api.com as the page loads, and the World Bank’s monthly average for September 2026, $64.60 an ounce, gives a check on how much the price has moved.
Counting a mixed lot of silver coins
When dimes, quarters and halves of 1964 or earlier come mixed, count them by face value: each dollar of face holds 0.7234 troy ounce of silver, because the Mint kept weight proportional to value. The junk silver page does that in one step. Kennedy halves of 1965 to 1970 and the 1776-1976 S quarters are 40% silver and must be counted apart, as the melt value calculator allows. This site gives the metal value, not a buying price: anyone who buys silver coins works with a margin, and this site recommends no buyer.
Keep a written note of the count, the face value and the price you used, with its date. Silver can move several dollars an ounce within a month, as the World Bank averages show, and a dated note lets you compare any later offer with the market of the day rather than with a figure you remember.