Melt value, today
Trade Dollar
$52.13
0.7875 oz silver × $66.19/oz silver spot
SPOT $66.19/oz silver · 2026-09-21
A Trade Dollar holds 0.7875 oz of silver, slightly more than a Morgan, and struck for export to Asia rather than US circulation.
Melt is the floor: what the metal alone is worth today. A coin's collector value can be higher (date, mint mark, condition). It is rarely lower.
Melt
$52.13
2026-09-21
Common-date retail
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A dealer's buy price sits under both melt and retail on purpose — that spread is the margin that keeps the doors open. Ours is listed openly instead.
What makes one worth more than melt
- This is a collector series more than a melt one. Worn common dates typically sell well over bare melt, not at it.
- 1878-CC (about 97,000 minted) is a genuine scarce business strike. Proof-only 1884 and 1885 dates are museum-tier rarities.
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