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Three Cent Silver Value
Starting at $15 each your three cent silver value quickly rises into the $30 to $50 range for better condition coins.

 


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1866 THREE CENT COIN GREAT CONDITION BETTER DATE
1861 THREE CENT SILVER - NICER THAN MOST! - A MUST SEE ...

Three Cent Silver The three-cent coin with a star motif struck in silver alloy. (The first type of the series was the first United States regular issue struck in debased silver - 75% silver and 25% copper.

Three Cent Silver
Three-cent coin with a star motif that was struck in silver alloy.
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Three Cent Silver
(Rare dates: 1863-1873)
1851-1873
Three Cent Nickels
(Rare dates: 1877, 1878, 1883-1887; Scarce dates: 1879, 1880, 1882, 1888, 1889) ...

three cent silver (too small, easily lost)
1883 "no cents" nickel (same size as $5.00 gold piece, gold plated and passed as half eagle)
Twenty cent piece ( confused with quarter) ...

1852 THREE CENT SILVER PIECE VERY SHARP W/SCRATCHES N-R
1852 U.S. THREE CENT SILVER ~ VERY FINE ~ MUST SEE
1852 Silver III 3 Three Cent Piece (Trime) Variety 1 ...

Star three cent silvers often survive in MS-67 grade. An 1852 regular strike inverted date silver coin with an upside-down date is worth $650 in Almost Uncirculated condition. A three cents silver coin proof 1863/2 in MS-67 is worth $10,000.

Hence the name "three cent silver". The public complained because the 3 cent silvers were small and thin. By 1865 the US government changed the composition and design of the three cent coins.

Three Cent Silver - all coined at Philadelphia with no mint mark except the 1851 New Orleans issue, reverse side.
Shield Nickels - all coined at Philadelphia with no mint mark.

Cents (1793-1857) Flying Eagle and Indian Cents (1856-1909) Lincoln Cents (1909-to Date) Two and Three Cents Nickels (1864-1889) Shield and Liberty Nickels (1866-1913) Buffalo Nickels (1913-1938) Jefferson Nickels (1938-to Date) Three Cent Silvers ...

The debased three cent silver piece, nicknamed "fishscales" circulated, but were a nuisance because of their small size.

See also: Nickel, Silver, Coin, Three Cent, Dollar