Live silver price
Silver Price Per Gram Today
Silver is $1.95 a gram today at $60.52 spot. Sterling (.925) is $1.80 a gram and coin silver (.900) $1.75 — $1,945.76 a kilo of pure silver.
Silver is priced per troy ounce of pure metal. A gram of pure silver is that price divided by 31.1035, and a gram of anything you actually own — a spoon, a ring, a coin — is that figure times its purity, because almost nothing outside a bullion bar is pure. The tables below do both conversions at the live spot price.
Every figure here is melt value: the silver inside, at spot. Buying bullion costs more than melt (dealers add a premium, largest on small pieces), and selling scrap fetches less (buyers pay a fraction of it). To price a pile of pieces by weight and see what an offer leaves behind, use the scrap silver calculator.
Per gram, pure
$1.95
Per gram, sterling .925
$1.80
Per troy ounce
$60.52
Per kilogram
$1,945.76
Melt value at silver spot of $60.52 from gold-api.com, captured Oct 3, 2026, 10:38 PM UTC. Nothing here is an offer to buy or sell.
Silver price per gram, by purity
Read the number stamped on the piece; that is its purity in parts per thousand.
| Mark | Usually found on | Per gram | Per troy oz | Per kilo |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| .999 fine silver (bullion) | Rounds, bars, modern bullion coins | $1.94 | $60.46 | $1,943.82 |
| .958 Britannia | British Britannia standard | $1.86 | $57.98 | $1,864.04 |
| .925 sterling | Most flatware, holloware and jewellery | $1.80 | $55.98 | $1,799.83 |
| .900 coin silver | US coin silver, much antique American flatware | $1.75 | $54.47 | $1,751.19 |
| .835 continental | Common German, Dutch and Scandinavian mark | $1.62 | $50.53 | $1,624.71 |
| .800 continental | German and Italian standard | $1.56 | $48.42 | $1,556.61 |
| .720 older coin | Older Mexican and European coinage | $1.40 | $43.57 | $1,400.95 |
What pure silver is worth, by size
Melt value of .999 silver at today's spot. Bullion sells above these figures and buys back below them.
| Size | Grams | Melt value |
|---|---|---|
| 1 gram | 1 g | $1.94 |
| 10 grams | 10 g | $19.44 |
| 100 grams | 100 g | $194.38 |
| 1 ounce (kitchen scale) | 28.35 g | $55.11 |
| 1 troy ounce coin or round | 31.1 g | $60.46 |
| 10 troy ounce bar | 311.03 g | $604.59 |
| 1 kilo bar | 1,000 g | $1,943.82 |
| 100 troy ounce bar | 3,110.35 g | $6,045.95 |
Pricing something you own
Flatware, jewellery and old coins are priced by weight times purity. The scrap silver calculator takes the weight in grams or kitchen-scale ounces, applies the purity from the mark, and shows what a buyer's offer leaves behind in dollars. For pre-1965 US coins, the junk silver calculator counts by face value instead.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
What is the price of silver per gram today?
$1.95 a gram for pure silver, at the current spot price of $60.52 a troy ounce — spot divided by 31.1035 grams. That is $1,945.76 a kilogram. Silver items are cheaper per gram than that because they are alloys: sterling is $1.80 a gram.
What is sterling silver worth per gram?
$1.80 a gram in melt value. Sterling is 92.5% silver, so each gram holds 0.925 g of pure silver at $1.95. Ten grams of sterling — a heavy ring or a small spoon — is $18.00 of metal. Pieces marked EPNS, EP or "silver plate" are not sterling: the silver is a thin coating and recovers almost nothing.
How much is a 10 oz or 100 oz silver bar worth?
A 10 troy ounce bar holds $605.20 of silver at today's spot, and a 100 oz bar $6,052.00. Dealers sell bars above that and buy them back below it; the gap is narrower on large bars from recognised refiners than on small or unbranded ones.
Is a troy ounce the same as an ounce?
No. A troy ounce is 31.1035 grams and is the unit silver is priced in. An ordinary ounce on a kitchen scale is 28.3495 grams, about 9% lighter — so one kitchen-scale ounce of pure silver is worth $55.16, not $60.52. Converting to grams first avoids the mistake.
Why do dealers charge more per gram than this?
Spot is the wholesale price of large bars. A retail coin or small bar carries minting, distribution and dealer margin on top, and that premium is proportionally largest on the smallest pieces, where it can exceed the value of the silver itself. Compare a product's price per gram against the pure-silver figure above and the premium becomes a number.
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