Hoard nickles... like you wish you had silver dimes, quartets, etc.
“quarters” ... A pox on Kindle auto correct!
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I read you 5 by 5, Bob.
A nickel was worth over 10 cents in 2012.
75% copper and 25% nickel!
Commodity prices for the necessary copper and nickel to make our nickel rose from 3.46 cents in fiscal year 2003 to 10.09 cents in fiscal year 2012.
However the melt value of one US nickel, checking here, now, is down to $0.040833 .
http://coinapps.com/nickel/us/calculator/
That’s pretty close to 5 cents, and if we don’t get real money soon, the push will likely be on to make them out of a cheaper mix of material if it goes back up. (As it was before, and as was actually done to our other coins.)
In any case, our coinage has more “value” today as “money”, than our paper currency. (IMHO)
Lasts longer, too!