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A nickel is a five-cent coin struck by the United States Mint. Composed of cupronickel (75% copper and 25% nickel), the piece has been issued since 1866. Its diameter is 0.835 inches (21.21 mm) and its thickness is 0.077 inches (1.95 mm). The silver half dime, equal to
The Canadian five-cent coin, commonly called a nickel, is a coin worth five cents or one-twentieth of a Canadian dollar. It was patterned on the corresponding coin in the neighbouring United States. It became the smallest-valued coin in the currency upon the discontinuation of the penny in 2013 .
5 cents obverse 1903-1908 10 cents obverse 1903-1904 20 cents obverse 1904 50 cents obverse 1904-1909 George V: 1865-1936 King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions (1910-1936); Emperor of India (1910-1936) Dollar 1 cent obverse 1913-1936 5 cents obverse 1912-1929 10 cents obverse 1912-1919 20 cents obverse 1912 25 cents obverse 1917-1919
The Big Nickel, as the world's only numismatic coin park, also featured coin monuments other than the 1951 nickel. Some of these coin monuments were the $20 gold coin monument (featuring the Royal Coat of Arms of Canada ), the Kennedy half-dollar coin memorial (featuring an eternal flame ), the fantasy copper (Canadian one cent 1965) penny ...
Pages in category "Five-cent coins of the United States" ... United States nickel mintage figures; 0–9. 1792 half disme; 1913 Liberty Head nickel; B. Buffalo nickel; H.
According to the Royal Canadian Mint, the official term for the coin is the one-cent piece, but in practice the terms penny and cent predominate. [citation needed] Penny was likely readily adopted because the previous coinage in Canada (up to 1858) was the British monetary system, where Canada used British pounds, shillings, and pence as coinage alongside U.S. decimal coins.
A five-cent coin or five-cent piece is a small-value coin minted for various decimal currencies using the cent as their hundredth subdivision. Examples include: the United States five-cent coin, better known as the US nickel; the Canadian five-cent coin, better known as the Canadian nickel; the Australian five-cent coin
Jefferson nickels have been minted since 1938 at the Philadelphia and Denver mints and from the San Francisco mint until 1970. Key dates for the series include the 1939-D, and 1950-D nickels. The 1939-D nickel with a mintage of 3,514,000 coins is the second lowest behind the 1950-D nickel.