Reverse design of a silver war nickel, made from 35% silver. The large mintmark distinguishes these coins from their cupro-nickel counterparts. World War II ended in 1945, and with it came the end of the silver Jefferson “nickels,” with the regular copper-nickel composition returning in 19...
It is a fairly complicated process, but I believe you will find it as fascinating as I did. I am sure you know that coins are made of different metals (silver, copper, gold, nickel, etc.) Well, the United States Mint uses long rolled-up sheets of metal in making their coins. The ...
The penny has been made from a variety of metals over the years. In fact, if we go way, way back – to the first coins struck as pennies in England – we find that these early penny coins were made from silver in the 8th century under King Offa. Eventually, pennies and other small...
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made with one ounce of silver and numerically stamped using Leshers original numbering punches. They were struck by the Colorado Badge & Trophy Company and were sold by the ANA at $30.00 per medal. The obverse is a copy of the original Lesher Dollar while the reverse shows the house. Ed...
Do you want to go home with your own weight in pennies? Do you want to go home with your own weight in nickels? How about dimes, quarters or dollar coins? What about half-dollars?Quick, what do you select? (We’re assuming that your goal is to select the option that maximizes the...
1967 saw the last full minting of silver nickels, dimes, and quarters in Canada. Too many were being melted down since they were worth more that way. MSB•July 11, 2007 8:40 AM @Jared “Can someone explain to a humble non-economist like myself why the gold standard was such a bad...
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These 2 nickels were believed to be authentic by the public. It is now known that they were struck without legal authorization by one or more mint employees and that they were not authorized U.S. coins. They too had no historic impact on the development of U.S. coinage. The 1933 ...
One thing he did a while back was he bought nickels; he bought something like millions of dollars worth of nickels. Now why on earth would you do that? Well, he figured out that the meltdown value was higher than the face value of the nickels. So he made, like, an immediate $...