the bank cut me off from nickels today

[chad]

new policy: maximum of 10 rolls per customer, per day. no more boxes, period. :boohoo

oh well, at least i got up to 23.

question: what's the composition of canadian nickels?

[Awoke]

It used to be Nickel. They are some shitty metal now, plated with another shitty metal.


EDIT
If you're looking for silver, Pre-1964 dimes, quarters, 50 cent pieces and dollar coins are where you'll find it.

[chad]

It used to be Nickel. They are some shitty metal now, plated with another shitty metal.


shit. i have a whole crapload of them. i was all excited there for a minute. guess i'll have to spend them this summer.

[Awoke]

The Nickels that have Nickel in them are worth more than the shitty ones from today.
Dig around and fidn out the date that they stopped using actual nickel and see how many you can dig out. I think the Mint will buy them off you. I could be wrong.

[sirgonzo420]

new policy: maximum of 10 rolls per customer, per day. no more boxes, period. :boohoo

oh well, at least i got up to 23.

question: what's the composition of canadian nickels?


http://www.coinflation.com/canada/

1955 - 1981 Nickel $0.05 $0.1141581
1982 - 1999 Nickel $0.05 $0.0603746

the old nickels were .999 nickel.

according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nickel_%28Canadian_coin%29

the new nickels are currently composed of:

94.5% steel,
3.5% Cu,
2% Ni plating

[chad]

all of mine are 2002 or later. i have about $100 of them from playing poker the last 9 years on fishing trips.

[Awoke]

Seriously then, why are you buying nickel en masse?

[sirgonzo420]

Seriously then, why are you buying nickel en masse?


because US nickels are worth more than face value in metal content.

the Canadian nickels aren't

[chad]

i'm buying u.s. ones. metal content is worth more than the coin. the canadian ones have just been wandering home everytime i go up there.

[Ponce]

With about 100 bricks of nickels and don't think that I will check them out for the dates anytime soon.....crap, it would take me just about for ever......only 75 are in bricks and the rest in loose change mixed with some of my pennies, dimes and quarters......with a few .50 cent pieces.

[gunDriller]

the American nickels are still 75% copper & 25% nickel.

the US gov. budget for 2011 has language about a coinage change, don't know if it's happened yet.
http://www.coinflation.com/coinage_material.html

each nickel has about 3.75 grams of copper and 1.25 grams of nickel.

nickel is at $12 a pound, copper was at $4.25.

the metal content is about 7.5 cents each right now.

[ShortJohnSilver]

Talk to the manager, tell them it is needed for a small side business you run (or not), if they don't want to actually serve the public then switch to a credit union.

[Sparky]

all of mine are 2002 or later. i have about $100 of them from playing poker the last 9 years on fishing trips.


See if your bank will let you trade these nickels in for nickels.

[Twisted Titan]

Everytime I go to the bank and get just a mere 5 rolls of nickles.

I relsih the thought of another sucessfull "robbery".

The 1965 party for the nickle never stopped..but it will soon enough.


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[gunDriller]

i find myself wondering what i would ever do with the small amount of nickels i have saved.

"These cupro nickel tubing are constructed in such a way so as to offer resistance against high temperatures. Moreover, the copper alloy tubes are unique to stress corrosion cracking and give the best service life under the most adverse conditions."

but if you want resistance against temps - steel is much cheaper and goes to much higher temps.

http://www.copper-pipe-tube.com/cupro-nickel-tubing.html


"Cupronickel is highly resistant to corrosion in seawater, because its electrode potential is adjusted to be neutral with regard to seawater. Because of this, it is used for piping, heat exchangers and condensers in seawater systems as well as marine hardware, and sometimes for the propellers, crankshafts and hulls of premium tugboats, fishing boats and other working boats."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cupronickel


well, that's very interesting.

internal combustion engines (ICE) that run on alcohol need a lot more marine-engineering alloys than the gasoline ICE.

same for diesel, sometimes - to run on SVO (straight vegetable oil), which is about 2% water, you need corrosion resistant alloys.

hmmmm ....


http://www.sv.vt.edu/classes/MSE2094_NoteBook/96ClassProj/examples/cu_ni.jpg

from
http://www.sv.vt.edu/classes/MSE2094_NoteBook/96ClassProj/examples/cuni.html

more nickel = higher melting point.