how much silver in a roll of dimes

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The amount of silver in a roll of dimes depends on the year the coins were minted. Dimes minted for circulation in the United States from 1965 to the present contain no silver. Dimes minted in 1964 and earlier, however, are composed of 90% silver.

A standard roll of dimes contains 50 coins. As the provided sources indicate, rolls of 90% silver Roosevelt or Mercury dimes are commonly sold. These rolls consist of 50 dimes from the pre-1965 era.

For a roll of these 90% silver dimes, each coin contains 0.0723 troy ounces of pure silver. Therefore, a complete roll of 50 silver dimes contains approximately 3.617 troy ounces of pure silver. This is the total silver weight investors and collectors use to determine the intrinsic metal value of the roll.