The answer is yes to both. The outer layers of the coin are 80% silver / 20% copper and the core has essentially the reverse percentages, for an overall content of 40% silver / 60% copper.
In average condition they sell for $2.50 - $3.00 based on the price of silver as of 11/2009
No silver dollars were minted in 1969 in the United States. The only coins still minted in silver at time were Kennedy half dollars with 40% silver content.
No silver dollars were minted in 1969 in the United States. The only coins still minted in silver at time were Kennedy half dollars with 40% silver content.
Eisenhower Dollars were first minted in 1971.Perhaps you are thinking of a 1969 half dollar. 1969 was the last year that the Kennedy Half Dollars had silver. 1965-1969 Kennedy Half Dollars contain 40% silver.
Yes, it is 40% silver. It has a silver value of around 4 dollars.
There is no such thing as a 1969 silver dollar. The last true silver dollars were the Peace Dollars minted last in 1935, and then the Eisenhower Dollar was struck in copper-nickel using the same dimensions as the previous silver dollars but wasn't struck till 1971.
No, only Kennedy Half dollars from 1965-1969 had any silver in them, but that's 40% not 90%.
Check that coin again. There were no US silver dollars minted that year.
The US never issued 50% silver halves. JFK halves dated 1965-1969 are made of 40% silver - 80% on the outside, bonded to 20% in the core. In average condition they sell for about $2.50 to $3.00 based on the price of silver.
1965-1970 Kennedy half dollars are 40% silver with a value of about $2.00 for the silver.
1964 and before, dimes were made out of 90 percent silver. The same went for quarters and half dollars. And then the us mint made half dollars from 1965-1969 40 percent silver.
1964 was the last year for circulating 90% silver half dollars, from 1965 to 1969 the coins were struck in 40% silver and again in 1970 but that year was not released for circulation
So many 1969 Kennedy half dollars were made and saved the value of most coins is just for the silver (only 40%), about $6.00