Are 1964 Nickels Silver?

If '64 nickels were silver, I could retire, again. Welcome to CCF!

to CCF. What makes you think they are silver,the 64 and the 99?
John1

Oh no. I've been collecting pre1964 nickels all for nothing?

to the CCF ...

There are exactly 11 Jefferson nickels (of the 170 circulation strike coins through 2013) that were minted in an alloy that contained 35% silver ...

As correctly stated above ... these silver containing nickels were produced during WWII when the metal nickel was valued as a premium.

The 35% silver War Nickels are easily identified by the large mint-mark placed on the Reverse above Monticello.

Silver War Nickels can be found in rolls today ... I have found 110 of them with diligent searching (308.000 nickels searched).




Likely correct alas.

Save your Jefferson 1959 and earlier ... but alas these are not silver ... except for the WWII years I note above.

David

No, no. If you have the money to put them away, keep ALL of your nickels, as they are worth two times, or close to two times worth their face value in metal content, I believe this extra value might be combined with the costs of minting and labor or distribution, but still, I put all of my nickels in a jar and only spend dimes, quarters, halves, dollar coins, and $1-$100 bills, except for 90% silver pre-1965 silver dimes, quarters and halves, post-1964-pre-1971 40% silver halves, red seal $2 bills and Silver Certificates if I come across them.

Even though a few members here say that the government will likely never lift the melting ban on pennies and nickels, I keep ALL pre-1982 copper pennies, although there ARE copper 1982s I don't mess with them, since there are also zinc 1982 pennies, and I keep all of my nickels, as cupronickel bullion, and my brother takes the zincolns, which I should really also keep, because they too are worth more than a penny, but my brother started taking our mother's pennies when we were young, and I'm glad he never got ticked at me starting to take the coppers. I told my brother, who has a large piggy bank at home that he says is really heavy and he can hardly move, that I would gladly give him Three Cents for every two copper pennies he has. He says "Just come on over and dig them out, then"

What about a 1964 solid copper nickel?

Melodyandzoe yes I do have that last name. I'm from georgia .