Different Take On The Redesinged Nickel

Has anyone seen one of the new nickels?

Full editorial here:
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06029/645702.stm

A new nickel tells us a lot about an old value. Who says money isn't part of the American psyche?
Sunday, January 29, 2006

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Sorry, Pittsburgh, but the most important new coin minted in 2006 is not the 24-karat gold-plated .999 fine silver commemorative created for the opening coin toss of next week's Super Bowl. You can buy a replica of that one for $69.95. Instead, the most important new coin is 75 percent copper and 25 percent nickel. You can get one of those at your bank for 5 cents.

Never has the nation made a bigger, or more important, statement at so little cost.

The new Jefferson nickel, which in the coming weeks will be in full circulation, won't buy you a good 5-cent cigar; there is no such thing, as Vice President Thomas R. Marshall said in despair eight decades ago. But though this new nickel still has a value of only 5 cents, it says a lot about American values.

This new coin is notable for only one characteristic, but, then again, how much do you really expect for a nickel? That characteristic: Thomas Jefferson is looking forward.