90 Percent Silver Coins

The United States Mint has produced many 90 percent silver coins over the years. A coin composed of the metal used to be a standard minting process until new laws were passed and it become too costly for use in standard circulating coins. Today, a 90 percent silver composition is only used in commemorative coins or silver proof sets intended for coin collectors. This section of CoinNews focuses on the older coins minted for circulation with dates between 1878 and 1965. Collectors like the better condition examples while investors like to own bags and rolls of them that contain poorer grades and are valuable mostly for their silver content.