Silver · Bullion Bars
A .999 fine silver bar is worth the silver spot price multiplied by its weight, with no alloy to discount. This page does it for the common bar sizes.
| Bar weight | Melt value |
|---|---|
| 1 oz | — |
| 10 oz | — |
| 100 oz | — |
| 1 kg | — |
Live spot via gold-api.com. Melt value = spot × 1 troy oz of fine metal.
Open the full calculator →Fine silver bars are .999 or .9999 pure, so — just like gold bars — their metal value is spot price × weight. There is no alloy to adjust for, which makes the arithmetic trivial and the melt value the true floor under the bar's price.
The table above converts the live spot price to the retail-standard weights: 1 troy ounce, 10 ounce, 100 ounce and the 1 kilogram bar (1000 g ≈ 32.15 troy oz). Remember a troy ounce is 31.1035 grams, not 28.35 grams.
As with gold, melt value is the floor, not the asking price. A new retail bar carries a fabrication premium above melt — proportionally larger on a 1 oz bar than a 100 oz bar — which a dealer buying it back will not pay. Sell to a dealer and expect melt or modestly under.
| Metal | Silver (XAG), .999–.9999 fine |
| Common bar weights | 1 oz · 10 oz · 100 oz · 1 kg (32.15 oz) |
| 1 troy ounce | 31.1035 grams |
| 1 kilogram | 32.1507 troy oz |
| Melt formula | spot per troy oz × weight in troy oz |
| Premium | Retail bars carry a fabrication premium above melt |
Melt value is the value of the metal in the coin, ignoring any collector premium:
Where the fine-metal content is known, this simplifies to spot × 1 oz. The live figure at the top of this page applies that formula to the current spot price.
Illustrative melt values (per troy ounce) at example spot prices — shown for reference only; the live figure above uses the real market price:
| Example spot | Melt value |
|---|---|
| $30.00 | $30.00 |
| $40.00 | $40.00 |
| $50.00 | $50.00 |
A .999 fine 10 oz bar holds 10 troy ounces of silver, so its melt value is the spot price × 10. The live table above shows it, plus 1 oz, 100 oz and 1 kg sizes.
A 100 oz bar contains 100 troy ounces of fine silver, worth spot × 100. That is about 3.11 kg of metal.
New retail bars sell above melt due to the fabrication premium, but dealers buy them back at or a little under melt, so the premium is not usually recovered.
A 1 troy ounce silver bar weighs 31.1035 grams — not the 28.35 grams of an avoirdupois ounce.
This page values one item. The Silver Stacking Spreadsheet keeps the whole record — every coin, what you paid, and your running profit or loss, auto-calculated from the spot price you enter.