A US 5¢ nickel is 5 grams of 75% Copper / 25% Nickel valued at $0.0545. A US 25¢ quarter is 5.67 grams of 91.67% Copper / 8.33% Nickel valued at at $0.0546 Nickel is almost twice the price of copper. Should the Nickel go clad? Source: https://www.usacoinbook.com/coin-melt-values/ https://www.dailymetalprice.com/metalpricecharts.php
Wouldn't matter. The cost last year to make a clad quarter was 8.62 cents. A nickel is .87 the size of the quarter so .87 X 8.62 cents means a clad nickel would cost about 7.49 cents apiece. The actual cost last year for the solid coppernickel alloy nickel was 7.42 cent apiece. So to make them clad would actually make the cost go UP .07 cents apiece.
