Free Tool · Live Spot
Silver Price per Gram Today
The live silver spot price, turned into a price per gram for fine silver, sterling and coin silver, and a calculator for what your piece holds in metal. Run it before you sell anywhere, including to us.
The Calculator
Silver Melt Value Calculator
Pick the purity from the stamp, enter the weight, and the spot price fills itself in from the live market.
Melt value
$154.64
100 g at 92.5% ≈ 92.50 g of pure silver
Melt value is not an offer. Every buyer, us included, pays below melt; the gap covers refining, risk and margin. What matters is how big that gap is and whether the buyer shows you the math.
By Purity
Silver Value per Gram and per Ounce
The same spot price is worth a different amount per gram depending on how much of the piece is actually silver.
| Silver | Stamp | Purity | Per gram | Per troy ounce |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fine silver | 999, FINE | 99.9% | $1.67 | $51.95 |
| Britannia | 958 | 95.8% | $1.60 | $49.82 |
| Sterling | 925, STER, STERLING | 92.5% | $1.55 | $48.10 |
| Coin silver | 900, COIN | 90% | $1.50 | $46.80 |
| Continental | 800 | 80% | $1.34 | $41.60 |
Figures at $52.00 per troy ounce spot. They update with the calculator.
The Formula
How the Per-Gram Price Is Built
Silver is quoted per troy ounce. To get a price per gram, divide spot by 31.1035, then multiply by the purity and the weight in grams.
At $52.00 an ounce, pure silver is about $1.67 a gram and sterling is about $1.55. A 100-gram sterling bracelet holds 92.5 grams of silver, roughly $154.64 in melt value at that spot.
Spot moves every trading day, so no page can print a permanent number. The calculator does the arithmetic with today’s.
Before You Weigh
What Throws the Number Off
- Plated pieces
- EPNS, silverplate, “quadruple plate” and most pieces marked Sheffield carry a thin skin of silver over base metal. Their melt value is close to nothing. Nickel silver and German silver contain no silver at all.
- Weighted pieces
- Candlesticks, knife handles and some trophies are filled with pitch, resin or cement. That weight isn’t silver, so the scale overstates them. More on the flatware page.
- Troy vs. kitchen ounces
- A troy ounce is 31.1 grams. The ounce on a kitchen scale is 28.35. Weigh in grams to avoid mixing them up.
- Stones and other parts
- Stones, steel springs and cord aren’t silver and don’t belong in the weight.