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90% silver · 1932–1964

Washington quarter melt value

Washington quarters dated 1964 and earlier are 90% silver; 1965 and later are clad and hold none. This is the most common silver coin in American change jars by a wide margin.

Melt value, one coin

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0.1808 ozt silver · 90% silver

0.1808 ozt silver6.25 g at 90%

Silver content
0.1808 ozt
Struck weight
6.25 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 washington quarters from 1932–1964. Coins outside those years look similar and hold different silver, or none.

Melt value of the lot

3.617 ozt of silver

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Face value of the lot

What the coins say they are worth

$5.00

Common lots

By face value, as the trade quotes it
LotWashington quartersSilverMelt value
$1 faceFour quarters40.72 ozt—
$5 faceA half roll of quarters203.62 ozt—
$10 faceA common small lot407.23 ozt—
$50 faceA half bag20036.17 ozt—
$100 faceThe standard trading unit40072.34 ozt—

Before you sell

Silver Washington quarters are the backbone of the junk silver market — plentiful, easily verified, and priced almost purely on metal. Only 1932-D and 1932-S carry a real premium in worn grades.

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

6.25 g × 90% ÷ 31.1035 = 0.1808 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 0.18084 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.