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"Sterling silver" refers to the purity of a particular silver object - specifically, sterling silver is 92.5% silver.
silver because sterling silver is 92.5% silver and the purer it is, the more it is worth.
Is English silver worth the same as sterling silver
Yes, sterling silver is worth lots of money. "Sterling" refers to a high degree of purity. The value of sterling silver is quite literally the market price for silver, which as the time of this writing is about USD $31.67 per troy ounce.
Sterling Silver is 92.5% pure. Therefore, 1 gram of Sterling Silver contains 0.925g of pure silver. 1 gram of sterling silver is worth: 0.5714 x 0.925 = £0.5285 Rounded up, a gram of sterling silver is worth 53p / gram. As of 20/01/2011, fine silver is priced at £17.7729 / Troy Ounce (source: lbma.org.uk). There are 31.103 grams in a Troy Ounce. Therefore, 1 gram of fine silver is worth: 17.7729 / 31.103 = £0.5714
Pre-1965 U.S. dimes are made of coin silver (900 fine), not sterling silver. In any case your coin is worth about $1 for its silver content.
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An ounce of Sterling silver is worth $19.98 in US dollars as of 2/11/14 at 9:37 a.m. This is 12.14 British Pound Sterling.
US dimes before 1965 were 90% silver. Sterling is 92.5%. 1934 is a common date, only worth about $2.
Sterling silver contains 92.5% of mass silver and 7.5% by mass of other metals, often Copper. Sterling Silver is often mistaken for pure Silver, when it is actually a Silver alloy.
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