https://catalog.usmint.gov/blue-rid...-SN3.html?cgid=america-the-beautiful-quarters This 5 ounce silver says Quarter Dollar on it so... Is it legal tender, since it does not say otherwise?
Buy one and try it, it might be interesting to see how many people refuse it. My unlettered opinion would be that it is legal tender. But it's just another way to make a bit of money for the producers at the expense of the gullible. All this overpriced junk turns up back on the market when the original buyers die off.
At 30 dollars an ounce, it will be a loooong time before you make your money back melting the thing down...
I believe you could spend it. It may be hard to fit it in a vending machine, though! One of the things I love about US coins is that they're all still legal tender. You could try to spend a chain cent and you wouldn't be violating any law. The cashier may refuse to accept it, but it would be perfectly legal to spend that chain cent.
Take a 5 ounce puck to a laundromat and tell people you had a regular size quarter in your pocket and that it grew in size while in the dryer...lol.
Yes, the coins are legal tender if you wanted to spend them at face value (which would be crazy). Section 102 of the Coinage Act of 1965 provides that “[a]ll coins and currency of the United States…shall be legal tender for all debts, public and private, public charges, taxes, duties, and dues. This law is still in effect.
