Nickel plated. Hole drilled to make into a "charm" like that of a charm bracelet.
I saw these all the time as a kid growing up close to the border in the 60s and 70s. This was a common (big understatement) practice in Canada. Souvenir areas had shops with bracelets and necklaces having strings of these altered coins. Normally the maple leaf was showing.
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