90% Silver

Fremont Coin Co., Inc. and Fremont Coin & Currency Co. maintains corporate offices in Las Vegas, Nevada for the past 44 years. Fremont Coin Co., Inc. is one of the oldest first-generation bullion dealers in the United States. We specialize in both Gold and Silver American Eagles, silver bars in all denominations, Carson City's and United States Currency. Call us at 702-382-1469 Monday - Friday.

One of the country's oldest first-generation coin-and-currency distributors.
Established 1956. Visit us on-line at: www.fremontcoin.com

90% Silver Bags [0.900 Fine Silver Coin Bags]

Fremont Coin Co., Inc. Bags of U.S. circulating legal tender coins (dimes, quarters, half-dollars) containing 90% silver or 40% silver are traded based on silver weight. All bags contain $1,000 face value of the coins and a “90% bag” may contain 10,000 dimes, 4,000 quarters or 2,000 half-dollars or a mixture of dimes, quarters or halves that total $1,000 face value. All “90% coins” are pre-1965 because prior to 1965, all U.S. dimes, quarters and half-dollars were struck from an alloy containing 90% silver and 10% copper. In 1965, at the direction of Congress, the U.S. Mint removed all silver from dimes and quarters.

Silver content in half-dollars was reduced to 40%.

40% Silver Coin Bags [0.400 Fine Silver Clad Bags]

Fremont Coin Co.,Inc.
3375 Glen Avenue #6
Las Vegas, Nevada 89121-1596
In 1965 the U.S. Mint removed all silver from all dimes and quarters and reduced the silver content in Kennedy half dollars from 90% to 40%. Actually, the mint changed the alloy from which the coins were struck using a base metal alloy for the core and adding a silver coating to the outside of the coins. These Kennedy halves (1965-1969) are known as “clads” because they are clad in silver. After 1969 all circulating U.S. coins were struck without silver.

A “40% Silver Bag” consists of 2000 Kennedy half dollars minted between 1965 and 1969.

90% Silver Bags
Pricing fluctuates with the market price of silver.
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The most popular way to invest in silver bullion is the 90% U.S. silver bags. They weigh 54 pounds and are sometimes called "junk" silver bags which is misleading. This unfortunate name was developed in the 1970s and used to describe a bag of average circulated silver coins, meaning the investor was not to think there were any rare coins included.

The industry estimates each bag which contains a face value of $1000.00 has 715 troy ounces of actual silver. All silver coins struck in 1964, dimes, quarters, or half dollars, or earlier are 90% pure so bags will move up or down with the daily price of silver.

There are several advantages when acquiring bags of silver. First they provide small increments of barter. Secondly, the bag carries a low premium over spot silver. Thirdly, they are legal U.S. tender.

Silver bags are recognized around the world as a trading medium and are therefore very liquid.

All About Silver

Silver is a soft white metal which is denser than copper and has a lower melting point.
It is used in coinage, tableware, and jewelry. In an amalgum with mercury,
it is used for the fillings of teeth. A large amount of silver is used in photography.

Coinage silver in the United States has been typically 90% silver and 10% copper.
British sterling silver is 92.5% silver and 7.5% copper.

The compound silver nitrate (AgNO₃) is used to cauterize sores and wounds. It is easily converted to metallic silver by contact with organic matter, such as skin or cloth, and is used in making indelible ink.

The silver ion makes an excellent antiseptic, so several silver compounds are used medically as germicidal agents.

Fine grains of silver bromide suspended in a thin layer of gelatin forms a photographic emulsion. The emulsion is formed on a sheet of cellulose acetate. The silver bromide is light sensitive, and undergoes photochemical decomposition. The gelatin increases this light sensitivity, perhaps because of the sulfur in it. The decomposed silver bromide registers an image, and development with an alkaline solution of an organic reducing agent like hydroquinone causes the sensitized grains to be reduced to metallic silver, while unexposed grains remain unchanged.

The undeveloped grains of silver bromide are removed by a fixing solution containing the thiosulfate ion, which forms the soluble silver thiosulfate complex. The negative can then be washed, leaving the silver image.