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A 1964 silver dime still buys a gallon of milk.

Same dime. Same milk. Sixty years apart. The dollar didn't keep up — the silver did.

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A pre-1965 dime is 90% silver. Today its melt value alone covers a gallon of milk; many days, several gallons.

In 1964, a gallon of milk cost about 95¢. A roll of dimes paid for it — and one of those dimes was 90% silver, weighing 0.07234 troy ounces.

That same dime today, if you melted it, contains real silver worth several dollars. Walk into any store, and that silver buys you milk, eggs, gas. Not because milk got cheap — because the dollar didn't.

The Federal Reserve removed silver from circulating dimes in 1965. Anything dated 1964 or earlier is the last of the real money. It still works.

See the cheat sheet → Old US silver coin guide
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