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<p>[QUOTE="SilverWilliesCoinsdotcom, post: 2884871, member: 86795"]Oddly, few get really melted I'd think. We tend to pass them around in rolls and bags and album holes. Sometimes I wonder if some higher grades are not traded more by collectors' hands than their original purpose as coins, especially since the days of a good nickel cigar gone so long now...</p><p><br /></p><p>PER GROUCHO MARX:</p><p><i>The nickel today is not what it was fifteen years ago. Do you know what this country needs today?...A seven-cent nickel. Yessiree, we've been using the five-cent nickel in this country since 1492. Now that's pretty near a hundred years' daylight saving. Now, why not give the seven-cent nickel a chance? If that works out, next year we could have an eight-cent nickel. Think what that would mean. You could go to a newsstand, buy a three-cent newspaper and get the same nickel back again. One nickel carefully used would last a family a lifetime!</i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="SilverWilliesCoinsdotcom, post: 2884871, member: 86795"]Oddly, few get really melted I'd think. We tend to pass them around in rolls and bags and album holes. Sometimes I wonder if some higher grades are not traded more by collectors' hands than their original purpose as coins, especially since the days of a good nickel cigar gone so long now... PER GROUCHO MARX: [I]The nickel today is not what it was fifteen years ago. Do you know what this country needs today?...A seven-cent nickel. Yessiree, we've been using the five-cent nickel in this country since 1492. Now that's pretty near a hundred years' daylight saving. Now, why not give the seven-cent nickel a chance? If that works out, next year we could have an eight-cent nickel. Think what that would mean. You could go to a newsstand, buy a three-cent newspaper and get the same nickel back again. One nickel carefully used would last a family a lifetime![/I][/QUOTE]
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