[Smokin' Joe]

War nickels are traded by precious metals brokers who deal in coins. Check the APMEX site and you can see. They are low silver content (35%), much like Half dollars between 1967 and 1970 (40%), but do have silver content.

War nickels APMEX.com

[editor-surveyor]

War nickels are a very questionable choice for the replacement of cash, since they will be recognized by such a small sliver of the public.

I wasn’t saying that they are unobtainable like junk silver and philharmonics are becoming, now that so many people recognize the inevitable problem.