A $100 face value bag of pre-1965 dimes holds 1,000 coins containing roughly 71.5 troy ounces of silver after normal circulation wear. Bulk lots price closer to melt than small fractional purchases, and dimes give you the most divisible junk silver available: a thousand separate pieces you can sell off ten at a time or all at once. These coins carry no numismatic premium and trade purely on metal content.
Key Features:
- Purity and Weight: 90% silver, 10% copper; approximately 71.5 troy oz per $100 face
- Metal Type: Circulated U.S. 90% silver dimes struck before 1965
- Obverse Design: Roosevelt or Mercury, depending on the coins you receive
- Reverse Design: Torch with olive and oak branches, or a fasces
Most bags run heavily to Roosevelt dimes, struck in silver from 1946 through 1964. The obverse carries John R. Sinnock’s left-facing portrait of Franklin D. Roosevelt, with LIBERTY along the left rim, IN GOD WE TRUST at the base of the bust, and the date to the right. The reverse shows a torch flanked by an olive branch and an oak branch, symbols of liberty, peace, and strength, with UNITED STATES OF AMERICA curving above and ONE DIME below.
Bags may also include Mercury dimes from 1916 to 1945, showing Weinman’s Winged Liberty Head and a fasces with olive branch on the reverse. Series, dates, and mint marks cannot be requested.
Each dime measures 17.9 mm across and weighed 2.5 grams as struck. These circulated for decades, so expect worn detail, scratches, rim nicks, and gray or mottled toning. Bags ship in a canvas sack, sealed and weighed, exactly as junk silver has traded for generations.
At this volume you are buying silver at close to spot in a form every dealer in the country recognizes and no one needs to assay. Order today and we will ship it fully insured in discreet packaging.



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