{Tag Archives} Nickels
1885 nickel’s prices soared, but too high? - Numismatic News
Aug 22 at 10:10pm
Just when you think it is safe to totally ignore a certain coin, it catches fire and makes you look foolish. I readily admit that the 1885 Liberty Head nickel did that to me. Out of nowhere, it simply soared in price.
If your investment newsletter writer has been promoting the 1885 Liberty Head nickel in recent years, extend your subscription.
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Steel Cents and Nickels Dead in the Water? - Coin News
Aug 20 at 2:02pm
Legislation to change the metallic composition of the penny and nickel to a less expensive copper-colored steel passed in the U.S. House of Representatives on May 8, 2008.
However, the plunge in base metal prices since could very well end the legislation’s chances of moving forward in the Senate.
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Proof ’38 nickel with serif seen - Numismatic News
Jun 20 at 11:11pm
A new variety of the proof 1938 Jefferson nickel has been announced by Michael S. Fey, Ironia, N.J.
The coin has a serif at the lower end of the “S” in TRUST as compared to no serif on the previously known examples.
Fey made the announcement after researching the coin first shown to him by an unidentified collector Dec. 1, 2007, at the Bay State show in Boston.
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Club members perform nickel search - Numismatic News
Jun 9 at 3:03pm
More than 26,000 nickels got a close look this spring as part of an inventory project conducted by a group from New Jersey’s Ocean County Coin Club.
The 14-person team was evenly divided between adult members and the club’s YNs, said Jim Majoros, club president.
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Current and 2007 costs to mint U.S. coins - CoinNews
May 13 at 10:10am
One of the pleasant side affects of the Coin Modernization and Taxpayer Savings Act of 2008, which would change the metallic composition of pennies and nickels to steel, is the revelation of current and past costs in minting coins.
Figures of coin production expenses are interesting in themselves, but charting their trends is another reminder of the volatility of metals within coins, like that of copper, zinc and nickel.
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