suggest you watch silver prices on the exchange as they change constantly.
As with any country there is real and then fake. I have been lucky I guess in buying Mexican Silver and it has all been real
As with any country there is real and then fake. I have been lucky I guess in buying Mexican Silver and it has all been real
One Cent is the value. The US has never made a silver penny. It may look like silver or have been silver plated but it has no collectible value.
Silver currently retails for about $20/oz. That amount may or may not have been true at the time of its posting. The complete story is that pure silver (.999 fine) is traded daily and its value changes just like any other commodity. Today, 8-20-2009, silver is at $13.88 a troy ounce, making the value of a 1 troy ounce Engelhard silver bar today worth about $14. That value was most assuredly change in the future. There are also sometimes premiums paid for a silver bar or round because of the design or mintage. This site shows a list of all the different types and numbers made of Engelhard one ounce bars: http://freesilverguide.com/engelhard-bars/
1oz silver bars can be invested with many big companies who hold silver shares on the market. One could also try local banks where they could invest the bars at the current trading price of the silver.
The coin is Zinc coated steel not silver, no US one cent coins have been made of silver. Average value is 5 cents.
This is a American Silver Eagle bullion coin. The fact it has been colorized destroys the numismatic collectible value of the coin. The piece still has a value of about $30.00 for the silver it contains.
The Halfpenny has never been minted in silver. If you have a "silver" Halfpenny, it is possibly because somebody has silver plated it. Modified coins have no collector value. For future reference, please provide a year.
Silver prices have been dipping over the last few weeks, so the current melt value of a US silver quarter (minted before 1965) is a little under $6.
Washington has never been on a silver dollar. An 1865 U.S. silver dollar is one of the Liberty Seated series of coins.
No U.S. one cent coin has been made from silver. It may have been plated for jewelery but it does not have any collectible value.
The US never made silver cents. Your coin has been plated for use in jewelry or something similar. Unfortunately, that destroys whatever collector's value it might have had.