Silver bar & round calculator
Price anything by weight and purity — a bar, a generic round, a piece of sterling. No catalog entry needed.
The piece
How this works
Melt value is the weight of a piece multiplied by its purity, and then by the silver spot price. A 10 oz bar at .999 holds 9.99 troy oz of silver; a sterling item holds 0.925 oz for every ounce it weighs.
Purity is usually stamped on the piece. Common marks are .999 and .9999 on modern bullion, 925 or “sterling” on silverware and jewellery, and 800 or 835 on older continental European silver. If a piece carries no mark, treat the figure here as an upper bound until it has been tested.
This prices the metal and nothing else. A collectible bar, a recognised mint’s round or a hallmarked antique can be worth well above its silver, and a dealer buying scrap will pay under melt to cover refining.