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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;QUAVIET, post: 299853, member: 1425&quot;]I sounded condescending but was only trying to be witty. To me the question seems obvious. The nickel (five cent piece) used to be called a half dime but silver became scarce and the mint started using a nickel alloy. There is the three cent nickel and the three cent silver but never a five cent silver. During WW2 there was a 40% silver nickel because the element nickel was a wartime needed metal because of its need in stainless steels, B-29 bomber or P-51 Mustang for example. </p><p><br /></p><p>I think tradition is the reason that the mint has not made silver proof nickels (five cent pieces, but who calls them that) and is probably the reason they haven&#039;t made any silver proof pennies (one cent pieces).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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