Melt catalog — metal worth without a Greysheet lookup
Type × metal content × today’s Kitco spot for gold, silver, platinum, palladium, copper, and nickel. Same catalog as meltprices.com. No Greysheet fee. Melt is the metal floor — not a date/grade bid and not what your shop pays.
Open Melt catalog → Opens your members area in a new tab
Step-by-step instructions
1 Three different desks
Do not mix these up:- Quick reference → Melt catalog — what the metal in that type is worth today. No Greysheet lookup. No extra fee.
- Quick reference → Metal melt & shop pay — melt next to what you already pay for a similar piece (junk, bullion, scrap). That is your shop number, not 100% melt.
- Counter → Price Look Up — date, mint, and grade book bid (Greysheet). That uses your trial lookups or your own keys.
2 Open Melt catalog
In the left sidebar: Quick reference → Melt catalog. Type melt in Go to section (Ctrl/Cmd+K) to jump here. Public twin: meltprices.com — same types and the same live spots.3 Find a type
Type a year and denomination (1964 quarter), a name (sovereign,Morgan), or a Spanish legend (veinte). Enter picks the first match. Filter by metal if the list is long. Gold, silver, platinum, palladium, and copper (including cupro-nickel clad and Buffalo nickels) are in one catalog.4 Quantity or 90% face
Most types use quantity (how many coins). Pre-1965 dimes, quarters, halves, and dollars can use $ face — $1 face = 0.715 oz silver (wear). That is the usual junk-silver bag math, not a mint-perfect weight.5 How melt is figured
Precious metal: troy ounces of pure metal (AGW / ASW / platinum / palladium) × today’s Kitco spot. Copper and nickel: grams of each metal ÷ 453.59237 × Kitco dollars per pound. Kitco copper and nickel refresh on the same cadence as gold and silver (about every five minutes). A Buffalo nickel is 75% copper / 25% nickel. Clad dimes, quarters, and halves (no silver) are about 91.67% copper / 8.33% nickel. 1942–1945 war nickels stay on the silver table.6 The percent slider is a sanity check
The slider (starts at 70%) is not your buy rate. Your real junk, bullion, and scrap pay live on Quick reference → Metal melt & shop pay and in POS Config. Melt catalog never posts a quote for the shop.7 A type missing?
Use Can’t find a type? Tell us. We research the spec and add it for every shop — that is not a bug report.8 Public Melt Prices and nearby shops
meltprices.com is the public catalog. After someone figures melt they can enter a US ZIP and see nearby CDXList shops. Sort: SpotPro (directory listing on) first, then Featured, then Plus, then free. Featured shops get that placement from the CDXAds package they already pay for. Melt Prices does not quote a buy and does not email you the lot — they call or walk in. Keep address, phone, and hours current.