Specifications
- Country
- United States
- Years
- to 1964 (Mercury / Roosevelt)
- Metal
- Silver
- Gross weight
- 2.50 g
- Fineness ‰
- 900 ‰
- Fine metal
- 2.2500 g
Weight
Calculate by weight and fineness
Source & licence
- Official text
- Coinage Act of 1873, 17 Stat. 424 — dime
- Quote
the quarter-dollar and the dime shall be respectively, one-half and on-fifth of the weight of said half-dollar
- Reuse terms
- Public domain: United States Government work (17 U.S.C. §105)
Source: United States Code / Statutes at Large (govinfo.gov, GPO). In case of doubt, the English version of this page prevails.