Meet the Nickels
Composition: Cupro-Nickel: 25% Ni, Balance Cu
Actual Value of Metal Content: 9.7 cents
Weight: 5.000 g
Diameter: 0.835 in., 21.21 mm
Thickness: 1.95 mm
Edge: Plain
"Awww!" Factor: 101%
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What You Need
What You Need To Know About the "Jefferson Nickel" Coin SeriesWhich two historical events does the Westward Journey Nickel Series celebrate?
The new designs remembers the Louisiana Purchase (which assembles the US Territory as we know it today) and the westward venture of explorers Lewis and Clark.
Who said or wrote the words in the Ocean In View nickel?
Captain Clark wrote these words in the nearing anticipation of a long-cherished view of the Pacific Ocean.
The first design in the Nickel Series is based on Thomas Jefferson's "Peace Medal." To whom were these medals meant for?
These medals were to serve as gifts to the American Indian chiefs they would meet.
How many US circulating coins have shown a president facing forward as on the 2006 nickel?
None. The forward-facing Jefferson portrait is unprecedented.
And now...
What's the most valuable U.S. coin?
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Nickels From All Over
>> The shield nickel was the first nickel five-cent piece minted in the United States.
>> Longacre's initial design didn't factor in nickel's physical qualities, and the result was many minting errors in the Shield nickels, such as die cracks, overdates, and doubled dates.
Liberty Head V nickel (1883-1913)
>> Liberty Head (V) Nickels were officially minted from 1883 to 1912. The 1913s were the exception because an unknown mint official produced a clandestine amount of V Nickels with the date 1913. So far only five known examples of this 1913 coin ascertained to be genuine exist, making them some of the most valuable coins in existence.
>> The "Olsen specimen", borrowing the name of a previous owner, was auctioned in 2003 for $3 million.
>> Legend Numismatics, a coin dealership in Lincroft, New Jersey, bought another from collector Ed Lee of Merrimack, New Hampshire on June 2, 2005 for $4.15 million, the second-highest price ever paid for a rare U.S. coin (the first place belongs to a 1933 Saint-Gaudens double eagle in a 2002 auction).
>> All the 1913 examples were minted in Philadelphia. The D or S mint mark is located on the reverse, just below the left-hand dot near the seven-o'-clock position on the rim.
More on the Buffalo Nickel here.
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The Complete Guide to Buffalo Nickels, 2nd Edition
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>> Proofs and special mint set coins (1965-1967)
>> 1950-D, the lowest mintage of all the Jeffersons minted
>> in uncirculated condition, please: the 1939-D, 1939-S, and 1942-D
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BFuniv.com
Nice stuff. I would mention that the 1950 D Jefferson was widely recognized as low mentage when it was struck, and was saved as an investment by the roll. They are readily available in uncirculated condition. Posted June 05, 2008 |
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eccles1
Nice Lens ! Posted May 27, 2008 |
