It means the object is plated with pure silver.
It depends on the weight of your .999 pure silver coin. Currenrtly silver is $24.13 per ounce.
About $32 per troy ounce at the time of writing. .999 refers to silver that is 99.9% pure.
If you're referring to the silver American Eagle bullion rounds, then no. They're all .999 silver.
They *are* clad in 0.999 silver, but the real question is how thick is the cladding. Part of the problem is that "100 Mills" has absolutely no legal or engineering meaning - they may as well be stamped "100 Rhubarbs". 'Mil' (with one letter 'l') is a term used in engineering (in the UK at least) to mean 1/1000 of an inch - but if the cladding were actually 100 *mils* thick, that would be 1/10 inch (about 2.5mm); seeing as a 1oz bar of REAL silver is only about 2.5mm thick, that would mean that one of these '100 Mills' bars would have to be clad in TWO ounces of silver. Obviously they're not, or the producers would go bust very quickly. If we assume that 'Mill' is actually short for 'Millionth' (of an inch), it makes far more sense. The thickness of cladding would then be 0.0001 inches (0.0025mm) - which is about normal for electro-plated items. Each side of the bar would require 1/1000 of an ounce to plate, so the whole bar would take 1/500 oz. At current prices ($30/oz) that means that each bar contains about 6 cents worth of silver.
A Kennedy Half Dollar that was minted in 2007 and carries a mint mark of "S," was produced in clad and silver. The clad in a proof state is worth: $4; in silver, the value is: $7.00.
.999 pure silver means the item is made of 99.9% silver, while 1 troy oz refers to the weight of the silver. A silver clad item may have a thin layer or plating of silver over another base metal, whereas 1 troy oz specifically denotes the weight of silver in the item.
Plata is silver, 999 refers to the fineness. It means pure silver.
Plata is silver, 999 refers to the fineness. It means pure silver.
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It means the object is plated with pure silver.
silver and clad(clad is a mix of silver and copper).
The difference between 99.99 and 999 silver is in their purity levels. 99.99 silver is considered pure silver, while 999 silver is even higher purity, with a fineness of 99.9%. This means that 999 silver is slightly purer than 99.99 silver.
It depends on the type. There were two types: silver-clad and a copper-nickel-clad. Silver-clad contains 0.14792 ounces of pure silver. All have an S mint mark. Copper-nickel-clad does not contain any silver. They can have a D, S, or no mint mark.
No, clad is used in the coin collecting community talking about the Copper and Nickel "sandwich" current, non-silver, coins have. So a clad quarter by definition would not have any silver because a clad quarter is a quarter with no silver. However, quarters were made of silver before 1965 so any quarter dated 1964 and earlier contains 90% silver, but those coins would not be considered "clad".
"999" stamped inside a diamond ring typically refers to the purity of the metal used. In this case, "999" indicates that the metal is pure silver, which is 99.9% silver content.
that tells how pure something is, usually silver. that means it is .999 percent pure.
Only the U.S. bullion Silver Eagle coins contain .999% silver.