US nickels only contained silver during WWII when nickel metal was needed for the war effort. ALL other nickels are made of an alloy of 75% copper and 25% nickel.
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It's a Liberty Head Nickel not a Barber. The Barber series don't have nickels. Retail value for 1908 nickels are $3.00-$5.00 in circulated condition.
No silver dollars were minted from 1905 to 1920 inclusive.
The only years silver was used in US nickels was 1942-1945, the coin is face value.
Your nickel contains no silver. Only nickels made from 1942-1945 contain silver. See the related question below.
If you found it in change your nickel is only worth face value. US nickels made from 1866 to mid-1942 and from 1946 to the present are made of a copper-nickel alloy, not silver. In fact, no circulating US coins have contained any silver since 1969.
That's a silver war nickel, containing 35% silver, and it's worth at least $2.
No US $1 coins were struck in 1908, look at the coin again and post new question.
Copper-nickel, not silver. The only nickels that ever contained any silver were the famous "war nickels" made from 1942 to 1945, when silver replaced nickel metal because nickel was needed for the war effort.
The 1949 Jefferson nickel is still found in circulation, contains no silver and likely only face value.
The only US nickels to contain silver are those minted during WWII. A 1959 nickel in uncirculated condition might go for 25 cents.
That is known as a "war nickel" to save nickel for the war effort, the US government replaced some of the nickel in the nickel with silver. At the time of writing the silver content in them is around $1.70. The reason for the mintmark over the Monticello was that the idea was that people would know they contained silver.
US quarters were not made of silver in 1965, but rather of copper-nickel. The last silver quarter made for circulation in the US were produced in 1964.