About This Site

Before 1965, U.S. dimes, quarters, and half dollars were made from 90% silver. Each $1.00 of face value contains roughly 0.715 troy ounces of silver.

The Real Money Calculator is a purchasing power archive. It documents real modern purchases and compares them to their historical silver coin equivalent, priced against today's live silver spot.

Every entry in the archive is a real receipt from a real purchase. No models, no projections — just a growing record of what money buys now versus what hard money bought then.