Coin Collecting Tools
Everything for putting a number on your coins: live melt calculators, per-coin melt values, spot prices, and grading references. Each calculator pulls the current spot price for its metal — refreshed every two hours — multiplies by the published per-coin pure-metal content, and shows you a running total in troy ounces and dollars. Manual spot override lets you model future prices.
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Melt value calculators
Silver Melt Value Calculator
90% junk silver dimes, quarters, halves, and dollars; 40% Kennedy halves; war nickels; American Silver Eagles and modern .999 silver dollars; trade dollars and half dimes.
Open calculator →Gold Melt Value Calculator
US classic gold (Gold Dollars through Saint-Gaudens Double Eagles); American Gold Eagles in every fractional; American Gold Buffalos; Krugerrands, Maple Leafs, Sovereigns, and Mexican 50 Pesos.
Open calculator →Platinum Melt Value Calculator
American Platinum Eagles in every fractional size; Canadian Platinum Maple Leafs; the Isle of Man Platinum Noble. Live platinum spot with manual override.
Open calculator →Palladium Melt Value Calculator
American Palladium Eagles (2017–present) and Canadian Palladium Maple Leafs (2005–2007, 2009). Live palladium spot.
Open calculator →Copper Penny Melt Value Calculator
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Pre-1982 Lincoln cents (the famous copper penny), Indian Head cents, two-cent pieces, large cents, half cents, and pre-1997 Canadian pennies.
Open calculator →Live numbers
Today's values & prices
Coin Melt Values
What every US coin is worth as pure metal — live per-coin, per-roll, and per-dollar-of-face figures for silver, gold, and copper coinage.
See live values →Live Metal Prices
Gold, silver, platinum, palladium, copper, and zinc spot prices with 30-day history — the numbers behind every melt value on the site.
See spot prices →Sharpen your eye
Grading & practice
Coin Grading Scale Explained
The full Sheldon 1–70 ladder with PCGS and NGC tier names, what each grade means in practice, and the modifier codes (CAM, DMPL, +, ★) you'll see on slabs.
Read the scale →LuckyGrade
Two coins, one question: which grades higher? A free game that trains your eye on real reference images.
Play a round →What is melt value?
Melt value is the intrinsic worth of the metal a coin contains — its weight times its fineness times the current spot price of that metal. For modern bullion (Silver Eagles, Gold Eagles, Platinum Eagles, etc.), melt value is essentially what the coin is worth: most modern bullion trades close to spot plus a small dealer premium. For historical 90% silver and pre-1982 copper coinage, melt value sets a floor — common-date worn examples trade close to it, while key dates and high-grade examples carry collector premiums above.
How fresh are the spot prices?
The spot prices these calculators use are pulled from public metals market feeds and refreshed in our backend every two hours, 24/7. The "as of" line on each calculator's spot card shows the last refresh time. Markets close on weekends, so weekend reloads will show Friday-evening spot until Sunday-evening futures open. You can override the spot price in any calculator to model future scenarios.
What about collector value?
These tools strictly compute melt value. For collector (numismatic) value — what a coin is actually worth as a collectible above its raw metal — see the per-series catalog pages on /coins/usa, the value charts in our guides, or the year-by-year values at /value.