90% Silver Barber Half | $1 Face Value – AG/G

Barber halves stopped leaving the Mint in 1915, which makes every surviving example more than a century old, yet they still trade close to their metal value in circulated grades. This listing delivers $1 in face value, two Barber half dollars, struck between 1892 and 1915 in the classic 90% silver, 10% copper composition. Together the pair carries approximately 0.715 troy oz of actual silver, priced as junk silver but collected as genuine turn-of-the-century coinage.

Key Features:

• Purity and Weight: 90% silver, 12.5 grams gross per coin, approximately 0.715 troy oz of silver per $1 face value
• Metal Type: Silver (10% copper alloy)
• Obverse Design: Charles Barber’s Liberty Head wearing a laurel wreath and cap, with IN GOD WE TRUST and 13 stars
• Reverse Design: Heraldic eagle with shield, arrows, and olive branch beneath a field of stars
• Condition: AG/G (About Good to Good), heavily circulated with full rims and readable dates

The obverse carries Charles E. Barber’s Liberty, facing right in a Phrygian cap wrapped with a laurel wreath, a ribbon knotted at the back of her neck. IN GOD WE TRUST spans the top rim, 13 stars circle the portrait, and the date sits below. The reverse presents a heraldic eagle modeled on the Great Seal, a striped shield at its breast, arrows and an olive branch in its talons, and a scatter of stars overhead, framed by UNITED STATES OF AMERICA and HALF DOLLAR. Dates and mintmarks vary by available stock.

In AG/G condition, expect smooth, even wear with the major devices outlined, dates legible, and the honest look of coins that actually paid for groceries, train fares, and theater tickets across decades of American life. That workhorse history is the appeal, these are not cleaned-up collector examples but true survivors.

Pre-1916 silver at bullion-adjacent pricing rarely stays in stock long. Order $1 face value of Barber halves today and put two pieces of the Gilded Age in your stack.