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Secret Argent Man Valued Member United States 320 Posts	Posted 08/13/2011 11:26 pm Over the years I have been "accumulating" canadian coins... not so much collecting them on purpose, but they just seem to find their way into my collection. Decided today to organize them, see what I had exactly, and by chance noticed my 1968 nickel was magnetic, while none others were. Now, I did read up and now know some years were steel, but as far as Google (or the writeup on this very site) is concerned 1968 was not one of them. Interestingly when googling, I happened upon several people saying nickel is magnetic, but neither the US nickels nor (as I say above) any of my other dozen or so canadian nickels are magnetic. So, the real question, is this an oddity, or is it normal? Report this Post to the Staff

DBM Pillar of the Community Canada 9866 Posts	Posted 08/13/2011 11:30 pm Normal I believe the US ones are only 25% nickel,Canadian are 100% nickel in 1968 Edited by DBM 08/13/2011 11:40 pm Report this Post to the Staff
DBM Pillar of the Community Canada 9866 Posts	Posted 08/13/2011 11:51 pm Composition of Canadian 5cents (nickels) 1922-42 100% nickel 1942-43 tombac (brass) 1944-45 plated steel 1946-51 100% nickel 1951-54 plated steel 1955-81 100% nickel 1982-01 cupro-nickel(like US nickels) 2001-11 plated steel Report this Post to the Staff
Secret Argent Man Valued Member United States 320 Posts	Posted 08/14/2011 12:21 am Cool, thanks! Indeed all my other nickels fall into the 82-2000 years, so it makes sense. When I googled there was a lot about how canadian nickelsare "all" nickel, except the war years, and that's what threw me. On a side note, it is quite disconcerting to run a magnet over my coins and have such a large portion of them stick. Here in the US that's a sure sign something is wrong. (with the notable exception of the wartime steel cents of course!) Report this Post to the Staff
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