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I don't hoard US nickels, bur I do keep all my Canadian .999 nickels,

I have a small stash of them. Probably a half gallon jug at this point. I wonder if they will ever be worth more than face value?

I've read on some websites that speculate that a nickel could be worth 2, 3 or 5 times face value in the future. Gresham's Law and
what not if the nickel ever changes composition from 75/25 Copper Nickel alloy. Do you think nickels would disappear into people's
hoards like silver coinage pre-65 did? I'm not sure about
that, but I will keep collecting them anyways. It's fun to find a War nickel from time to time.

JadeDragon wrote:I don't hoard US nickels, bur I do keep all my Canadian .999 nickels,

I have some of those as well....

SilverDragon72 wrote: It's fun to find a War nickel from time to time.

I was just thinking about something and that is this. I'd be excited to find something like a War nickel or Indian penny. Then I'd show it to my wife (or it could be someone at work). Inevitably, their response is "What is it worth?" My answer: "Maybe a buck or so, but they are really hard to find." I can just see the other person mentally calculating how much time I spent getting the coins, going through them and returning them. Thogey might have something to say about this, but perhaps that is why so many widows drop off their late husbands coins at the bank.

From a pure dollars and cents aspect, there are parts of this hobby that are hard to justify.

I'm posting to get some activity going in the Nickel forum. There's about the same level of interest in nickel today as there was in silver in 1997! I'm still not rebuilding my stash of US nickels, but still save any Canadian .999's I come across. It's amazing to me that the lowly Zincoln has a higher melt value that a US nickel. The contrarian in me tells me that with prices/interest so low, it may just be time to start rebuilding the stash...

spoken with the true contrarian's attitude, John. I couldn't agree more. And validated, on this day 5/21/17 five zincs are of higher melt value than a single nickel. Whooda thought?

johnbrickner wrote:spoken with the true contrarian's attitude, John. I couldn't agree more. And validated, on this day 5/21/17 five zincs are of higher melt value than a single nickel. Whooda thought?

The two melt values are pretty close to each other but the melt value of five copper cents is far better. I'll stick with the copper for now while I can still get it at face value.

zinc cents have at onetime have been worth melt than face value.

Just closed a box of nickels. Spent a while converting everything to ounces and pounds on from data on coinflation.com then converted to kilos.

$100 in nickels is 10 kg total, 7.500 kg copper and 2.500 kg nickel.

After all the math it was another moment of, why did it take so long to see, that!

Yep 5000 nickels x 5 g = 25,000 g = 2.5 kg. The sizes of all the non clad U.S. coins were picked on purpose. Those old timers weren't so stupid after all.

Even the brass cent weight had meaning: a tenth troy ounce.