Silver melt value is the worth of the metal itself, which for most flatware, holloware and coins is the great majority of what a buyer will pay.
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Sterling silver is 92.5% pure and marked 925 or STERLING. Coin silver is usually 90%, and older American coins minted before 1965 are 90% silver by weight, which is why they trade well above face value.
Weight is where silver differs from gold in practice. A canteen of flatware can run to several kilograms, so a small error in the per-gram price becomes a large error in the total. Weigh the pieces, not the box.
Watch for weighted bases. Candlesticks and some trophies are sterling shells filled with pitch or plaster, and only the shell is silver. Selling one by total weight is how people lose money on them, and buying one that way is how people make it.
Silver moves proportionally more than gold, which cuts both ways. A five per cent day is unremarkable, so a quote taken on Monday can be meaningfully wrong by Thursday. If you hold silver in any quantity, the value of what you own is worth checking against the current price rather than the price you last remember.
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Get MyGoldWorthOnly if the pieces have no value as objects. A complete flatware service or a maker-marked piece is usually worth more sold whole than as scrap.
92.5% of the current pure silver price per gram, multiplied by the weight. The calculator above does it against the live spot price.
Almost nothing as metal. The plating is measured in microns, and recovering it costs more than it yields. EPNS marks electro-plated nickel silver, which contains no silver at all beyond the plate.