if a silver dollar is 90% silver it would take 1 and 1/10th silver dollars to make an ounce of silver
A standard U.S. silver half dollar, minted before 1965, contains 0.3617 ounces of silver. To make 1 ounce of silver, you would need approximately 2.76 silver halves. Since you can't have a fraction of a coin, you would need to use 3 silver half dollars to exceed one ounce of silver.
To determine how many quarters make an ounce of silver, we first need to know the silver content of a quarter. A standard U.S. quarter (post-1964) contains no silver, while pre-1965 quarters are 90% silver, weighing approximately 6.25 grams. Since an ounce is about 28.35 grams, it would take roughly 4 pre-1965 quarters to equal one ounce of silver.
A quarter weighs 5.67 grams. So five clad quarters would equal one standard ounce.
One 1964 or earlier silver quarter= 0.1808 of an ounce of silver. So, it takes about 6 90% silver quarters to make one ounce of silver. 6 silver quarters= 1.0851 ounces.
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silver dollars should all be 1 ounce give or take a few grams
One American Silver eagle dollar will make an ounce of silver. Only silver dollars dated 1935 and older contain silver. They contain about .77 troy ounces of silver. So about 1.3 Silver dollars 1935 and older would make an ounce of silver.
One ounce of silver is equivalent to approximately 28.35 grams.
Silver half dollars have about 0.362 Troy oz. of silver in them, so 3 of them would be 1.086 Troy oz.
A standard U.S. silver half dollar, minted before 1965, contains 0.3617 ounces of silver. To make 1 ounce of silver, you would need approximately 2.76 silver halves. Since you can't have a fraction of a coin, you would need to use 3 silver half dollars to exceed one ounce of silver.
One ounce is equivalent to approximately 28.35 grams of silver.
One gram is equal to .035274 ounces. After conversion then, in one ounce of silver there are 28.3495 grams of silver.
1 grain is 64.799 milligrams avoirdupois ounce is equal to 437.5 grains troy ounce is equal to 480 grains 1000 gr of silver (or anything) is 2.286 avoirdupois ounce or 2.0833 troy ounce
14 silver dimes equal just little more than 1 troy oz. Each coin has .07234 oz of pure silver.
Each Kennedy half that was minted in '64 or earlier had .36 troy oz of silver meaning a little less than three would equal an ounce of silver which is running for 29.30 an ounce last i checked. <><><><> Half dollars made 1965-1970 contained only 40% silver, instead of the 90% of earlier coins, so it would take more coins. Half dollars made after 1970 contain no silver.
4-23-11>> The spot price of silver is $46.61 per ounce, Morgan dollars each contain .77344oz of pure silver. $46.61 X .77344= $36.05 so the answer is one.
A quarter weighs 5.67 grams. So five clad quarters would equal one standard ounce.