A Morgan silver dollar has .77344 ounces of pure silver. That is a little over 3/4 of an ounce of silver per coin.
58.78144 or 58.8 troy ounces of silver. Maybe less depending on physical wear
of these coins. Don't ever sell them for silver content alone, unless dates, mint marks and, or face is not visable. Go on eBay to see all of your coins dates for sale and see what kind of valuable coins you may be holding.
Silver right now is at $17.01 per troy ounce.
Your 76 coins @ $17.01 pto is worth $1292.76
I pay between $18 and 26 for decent specimens and more common dates.
Your coins at $26 each would be $1976
When I multiply 58.8x 17.01 I come up with 1000.19 rather than the 1292. It's been a long time since I took math in school.
8-21-11>>> No true silver dollar (1794-1935) has a full ounce of silver. The Actual Silver Weight is .77344oz of pure silver.
There are other countries besides the USA (notably Canada) that mint silver dollars
that are above 98% pure silver. These are generally commemorative mintings and are not normally circulated.
There are .7736 troy ounces in United States silver dollars (Morgan, Peace silver dollars). That worked out to the price of silver being fixed at $1.29/ounce. Troy ounces are heavier than avoirdupois ounces (31.1g vs. ~28g).
A Morgan dollar has a silver content of .773 of a troy ounce in silver. Keep in mind though that some Morgan Dollars, especially those with a CC mintmark, or Morgan Dollars in mint state, may be worth more to a collector of coins than just their silver content, however, worn or common coins usually sell for only their silver content, especially with how expensive silver is now.
Morgan dollars contain 412.500 Grains of silver.
Morgan dollars weigh about 26.7 grams and they're 90% silver. Grab your calculator and go from there.
With current mintage data, 129,929,633 Morgan dollars were struck at the San Francisco Mint.
4-23-11>> The spot price of silver is $46.61 per ounce, Morgan dollars each contain .77344oz of pure silver. $46.61 X .77344= $36.05 so the answer is one.
Combined with dates and mintmarks there are 18 Morgan dollars struck in the 20Th century.
Exactly one. A Morgan dollar is a specific kind of silver dollar, designed by and named for George T. Morgan and minted from 1878 to 1904 and in 1921.
There were 12,760,000 1881-S Morgan dollars minted.
US silver dollars weigh 26.73 grams and contain 90% silver. Do a little math and that converts to 0.7736 troy ounces of silver per silver dollar.
Any combination of 90-percent silver U.S. coins which have a face value of US$1.00 contains 0.715 troy ounces of 99.9-percent silver (0.7234 troy ounces if uncirculated), except for the silver dollars (Morgan and Peace) which contain .7736 troy ounces of silver. In other words, a full troy ounce of 99.9-percent silver is contained in any combination of 90-percent silver U.S. coins which have a face value of US$1.40.Therefore, a roll of uncirculated 1964 dimes contains 3.617 ounces of pure Silver, while a roll of circulated 1964 dimes contains 3.575 ounces of pure silver.
The current mintage data for the 1879 Morgan including proofs is: 27,550,100 coins.