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Seven distinct types of coin composition have been used over the past 200 years: three base coin alloys, two silver alloys, gold, and in recent years, platinum and palladium. The base metal coins were generally alloys of copper (for 2 cent coins and lower), and copper/nickel (for 3 and 5 cent coins). Copper/nickel composition is also used for ...
This made the new coin heavy, in terms of weight per $.01 of face value, compared to the three-cent copper-nickel coin. The bill passed without debate on May 16, 1866. [ 16 ] The new copper-nickel coin was legal tender for up to one dollar and would be paid out by the Treasury in exchange for coin of the United States, excluding the half cent ...
The Quarter-Dollar, Half-Dollar and Dollar coins were issued in the copper 91.67% nickel 8.33% composition for general circulation and the Government issued six-coin Proof Set. A special three-coin set of 40% silver coins were also issued by the U.S. Mint in both Uncirculated and Proof.
Coin weights are weights used to weigh precious-metal coins in order to assure they were not underweight (It is easy to shave a bit of metal off the edge of a silver or gold coin). [1] The usage of coin weights, especially glass ones, goes back to Ptolemaic and Byzantine times. [1] Coin weights were also known in Ancient China. [2]
A coin base weight (Münzgrundgewicht) is a mathematical reference for the minting of coins that was used in the monetary systems of the Holy Roman Empire. In conjunction with the coin standard (Münzfuß), the coin base weight indicates how many coins are to be minted from a specified standard weight. [1]
One price recorded for a 1913 Liberty Head nickel was in January 2010, when one sold for $3,737,500 in an auction. [36] Recent sales of a 1913 Liberty Head nickel were in April 2013 for more than $3.1 million [37] and for $4.5 million at auction in August 2018. [38] It is uncertain how the 1913 nickels came to be made.
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1913 Liberty Head nickel: PF-64 CAC United States Hawaii Five-O Heritage Auctions [24] January 2014 $3,172,500 1913 1913 Liberty Head nickel: PR-63 United States George O. Walton Heritage Auctions [25] April 2013 $3,090,000 1927-D Saint-Gaudens double eagle: MS-66+ CAC United States Eliasberg Private sale [26] August 6, 2021 $3,000,000 1911