Did it look like this? I'll give you five of Obamao's paper dollars for it.
I bought something at a 7-11 about six months ago, and the change immediately caught my eye.
There was a Buffalo nickel in it!! 1942, IIRC. I stuck it in a coin jar I have for wheat pennies, etc.
Only problem with your nickel is the date. You may want to dig it out and look again!
The Buffalo nickel or Indian Head nickel was a copper-nickel five-cent piece struck by the United States Mint from 1913 to 1938. It was designed by sculptor James Earle Fraser...
... Despite attempts by the Mint to adjust the design, the coins proved to strike indistinctly, and to be subject to wear—the dates were easily worn away in circulation. In 1938, after the minimum 25-year period during which the design could not be replaced without congressional authorization had expired, it was replaced by the Jefferson nickel designed by Felix Schlag.-Wiki
When will people start hoarding their Lincoln Memorial pennies and only spend their new shield pennies? When the shield pennies first came out I kept them separate, but now they are common enough that I don't bother. Sometime (if the penny elimination doesn't happen), the memorial ones will start getting rarer and rarer and kids will get excited when they see one like whenever I got a wheat penny.
Did it look like this? I'll give you five of Obamao's paper dollars for it.