- How much gold is in a Sovereign?Under the Coinage Act 1971 the Sovereign weighs 7.98805 g of eleven-twelfths fine gold (916.66‰): about 7.32 g of fine gold. Live melt value.
- American Eagle melt value: gold and silver31 U.S.C. §5112 sets the Gold Eagle’s fine-gold content by troy ounce and the Silver Eagle at 31.103 g of .999 silver. Live melt values.
- US 90% silver coins: dollars, halves, quarters, dimesMorgan/Peace dollars (412½ grains, .900), pre-1965 halves/quarters/dimes from the Coinage Act of 1873, and the 1965–70 40% Kennedy half.
- How to calculate the melt value of a gold or silver coinFormula: gross weight × fineness = fine weight; fine weight × price per gram = melt value. Live examples from U.S. and U.K. statutes.