Pure silver is not a viable crafting material in most jewelry. As such it is generally mixed with copper in a 92.5% to 7.5% ratio. .925 is generally known as "sterling" silver. As it's the purest you can get, and still use in jewelry.
This is 1 Troy Ounce (31.1 grams) of silver. The value is tied to the spot price of silver at time of sale. As of 9-4-11 silver is at $43.25 per ounce.
Those marks mean that it's .925 (sterling) silver and was made in Italy. The intrinsic value of the silver would depend on weight, but can be less than the market value of the item. For example, a very old piece of silver jewelry from a historic period, or one designed by a famous dead artist, could have value to collectors. A valuation can be done by a qualified appraiser, and requires more information than just the alloy of silver used (the .925, aka sterling).
Gold plate does not have any value to a gold buyer, but the silver does. There a many websites that giev the spot price of silver, go figure it out
Sterling can be 921 to 925 all it means is 92.1 % ver 92.5 % silver 4/10 of 1% le-way
Silver density = 10.49 grams per cubic centimetre.So> 4 * 4 * 4 = 64 cu cms, then * 10.49 = 671.36 grams.
At $17.58 an ounce as current price for pure silver, 4 ounces is worth $70.32.
It is 40% silver and worth about $4-5 depending on the silver price. It is only worth silver melt regardless of the condition.
Sterling silver is a standard measure that means there are .925 parts of pure silver in each 1.00 part of the metal. A metal stamped .725 is not Sterling silver, it is roughly only 3/4 silver and 1/4 of another metal in the mix.
In 1904 the Silver had to be marked with the .925 in an oval shape, with the Brittania Standard silver mark being .9584 in an oval shape. In 1973, the new Hallmarking Act dropped the decimal ( . ) from in front of the 925 and the font type changed a little, and in the case of the brittania Standard, dropped the decimal ( . ) and did away with the 4 at the end (although the diminution in value did not change) so that it became 958 in an oval.
As of 4/23/08 one once of silver is worth roughly $17
At present, one is worth around $4.
No. 925 is not evenly divisible by four.