US Nickel

I'm sure it has been asked before, my question is, why doesn't the nickel have copper showing around the rim like most other coins like dimes and quaters?
I mean if it is made up of 75% copper why doesn't it show?

 

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It's not clad; it's a mix.

 

It’s an alloy, 75/25

 

Not quaters.. quarters

As mentioned.. Quarters, Dimes and Half Dollars are Cupro-Nickel Clad on both sides with a copper core. Nickels are entirely Cupro-Nickel ... No copper core.

 

Ooops I feel like a big dummy now. Oh well.
So what I'm understanding here is the nickel's contents are mixed together therefore making it a solid color versus "layers" of other coins?
I'm going to go ahead and apologize for using the word layers, I don't know the correct term. I'm sorry. Still learning

 

Core. As in, can you core a apple? Lol, but that's what they call it.

 

Layers is correct. If one of them is missing, it's called a "Missing Clad Layer".

 

Oh, I thought she meant the middle, you're right. BTW, can you core a apple?

 

Am I thinking about this the correct way?

 

The stock sheet where the Nickel planchets are punched out of are comprised of Cupro-Nickel. It's just made of that mixture. It does not have clad on both sides and a copper core.

Simple

 

You crack me up girl. Hopefully you have it now.

 

Think of it like this…. An Oreo cookie is a clad dime or quarter (1965 to present). A sugar cookie is a nickel. Everything is blended together.

 

Dang, that's a good analogy!

 

Sure is. It’s making me hungry.

 

Can you tell my wife got cookies with the groceries today?

 

I was thinking an ice cream bar and fudge bar. Either will cause you to bore another hole in your belt.

 

My wife made her brother chocolate chip cookies for his birthday two days ago. I got a dozen of them as they wouldn’t fit into the container she also gave him. This thing is, I can’t find a single one of them.

 

I tend to have that problem myself!

 

We do thinks a little different.
Mix ingredients and put in a deep pan, bake and cut in squares.
That's makes a sheet of 2x2's ruffly 1 1/2" high rightly named congo squares.