Maybe, maybe not.
There’s one thing that’s certain about silver - in 1964 a silver US quarter would buy you a gallon of gas. Today that same silver quarter will still buy you a gallon of gas. I expect this will continue to be the case for the foreseeable future.
Give that 90% silver quarter to the gas station attendant and demand a gallon of gas. He will laugh at you. A quarter is a quarter, regardless of its silver content.
Unfortunately my local gas/beer station doesn’t seem to take junk silver.
A silver quarter will buy two gallons of gas today. 1/4 X.715 X $25 = $4.47.
Also, the silver nay Sayers have never travelled to South America, I have.
During the Argentina currency crash which began in 2001, and is still on going, people with old junk silver made out quite well able to buy common household goods with it....flash forward to Venezuela today, people with the old silver coinage ( even foreign Colombian and Mexican) are EATING. Do NOT ever think it can not happen in the US. Unlikely with Trump, very likely when Deoncrats socialists take power again. Last point, the USD is NOT doing well, it is trending down at 93 ( down from 120 ten or so years ago), the only factor to its “ strength” is it is the best looking pig in the market. ALL world currencies are declining, many collapsing. Once we go cashless ( Fedcoin), we will not be the premium “ money”, China ,which is currently testing their digital, will be as they have announced they plan to back it in gold. When the world is cashless, you will be glad you have a bunch of junk silver. The move to sovereign digital cashless is moving at light speed, with 7 countries developing their own, China slated by the end of 2021, our Fedcoin slated by the end of 2021/22....read up on Senate Bill 3571, introduced by Democrats and now in the Banking Comittee.