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Silver Coins

Silver coins values appreciated rapidly in the last couple of years. More and more people, who are interested in investing in commodities, such as Silver and Gold choose to buy silver coins and gold coins.

Due to extremely high prices of gold and respectively gold coins a lot of coin collectors shifted to silver coins, which are more affordable. You can buy Russian Silver Coins at My Coin Dealer shop.

Silver Coins Value & Silver coin prices

Silver coins of today only issued as commemorative or silver bullion coins, mainly due to increase of the price of silver. But before 1967 both US, Canada and most of the other countries had coins with silver content in circulation.

Silver coins value and silver coins price are affected by several factors, such as:

1) Rarity of the silver coin - rare silver coins are more valuable than more common silver coins, even if they look and grade identical and only differ in 1 year or by mint mark.

2) % Purity / Finesse of silver coin- there are no 100% silver coins, but investors are usually looking for coins with higher percentage of silver content and

3) Silver Coin Grade or quality: Silver coin value depends a lot on the coin grading. Usually, even the difference in 1 grade makes coins 2-3 times more expensive

4) Bullion Market value of silver as commodity : Silver coin value is also affected by price of the silver itself. This does not affect more expensive silver coins, but you can see it more in the price changes of the cheaper once.

Please refer to the Coin Values page for more information about silver coin values and latest silver coins prices.

Old Silver Coins

Old silver coins show very stable growth over the years compare to copper coins.

Please refer to the Old Coins page for more information about old silver coins.

07/23/2019
Oman- CBO issues new silver coin to commemorate 30 years of Sultan's Armed Forces Museum
The Central Bank of Oman (CBO) on Monday announced the issuance of a new silver coin to commemorate the 30th year of Sultan's Armed Forces Museum. 'In conjunction with the Blessed Renaissance Day ... more info

07/21/2019
‘Mughal-era’ silver coins unearthed in Bareilly village
BAREILLY: Labourers engaged by a farmer to plough his agricultural plot in Faizan Nagar village of Bhuta area, on Saturday evening, discovered some antique silver coins inside a vessel. However ... more info

07/20/2019
First person | Coin sale leads to priceless life lesson
She had dropped me off at the local shopping mall to sell my pre-1964 silver coins to a coin dealer, a bounty collected from my paper route during the past year. As I counted out the money in front of ... more info

07/22/2019
Silver closes at 13-month high as gold ekes out a gain
“Silver demand is already making a stealth comeback with the U.S. mint reporting a 43% increase in silver coin sales year-to-date as of June 30 and with ETFs gathering steam. If this investor interest ... more info

07/20/2019
Cash, silver coins seized by SIT in connection with IMA Jewels case
In a search operation conducted in connection with I Monetary Advisory (IMA) Jewels case at Adoni Infrastructures, Rs 4,62,70,000 was seized, said Girish, Head of the Special Investigation Team (SIT) ... more info

07/21/2019
Silver Rallied But Has NOT Broken Out
Demand for silver coins has been rather soft so far this year. We expect it will pick up as the public sees prices back on the move. For more analysis on the potential price moves for silver be ... more info