90% silver · 1948–1963
Franklin half dollar melt value
The Franklin half ran for sixteen years and holds the standard 11.25 grams of silver. It is common enough that most trade close to melt, and short enough a series that collectors complete sets.
Melt value, one coin
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0.3617 ozt silver · 90% silver
- 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
Count only franklin half dollars from 1948–1963. 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
| Lot | Franklin half dollars | Silver | Melt value |
|---|---|---|---|
| $1 faceFour quarters | 2 | 0.72 ozt | — |
| $5 faceA half roll of quarters | 10 | 3.62 ozt | — |
| $10 faceA common small lot | 20 | 7.23 ozt | — |
| $50 faceA half bag | 100 | 36.17 ozt | — |
| $100 faceThe standard trading unit | 200 | 72.34 ozt | — |
Before you sell
Uncirculated Franklins with fully struck lines across the Liberty Bell carry a substantial collector premium. Anything that looks like it never circulated is worth a second opinion.
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
- Barber dime0.0723 ozt—
- Mercury dime0.0723 ozt—
- Roosevelt dime0.0723 ozt—
- Barber quarter0.1808 ozt—
- Standing Liberty quarter0.1808 ozt—
- Washington quarter0.1808 ozt—
- Barber half dollar0.3617 ozt—
- Walking Liberty half dollar0.3617 ozt—
- 1964 Kennedy half dollar0.3617 ozt—
- Morgan dollar0.7735 ozt—
- Peace dollar0.7735 ozt—
- 1965–1970 Kennedy half dollar0.1479 ozt—
- Eisenhower silver dollar0.3162 ozt—
- Jefferson war nickel0.0563 ozt—
All 15 silver coin series we value, including the face-value calculator for pricing a mixed lot.