The first Jefferson nickels were made in 1938.
The first Indian Head/Buffalo Nickel was minted in Philadephia in the year 1913. The coin is actually called a buffalo nickel or an Indian head nickel, but not "buffalo head". After all, it shows the entire buffalo, not just its head :)
The US first minted nickels in 1866.You may have a 2004 nickel minted to commemorate the Lewis and Clark expedition. It carries the date 1803 on the back to indicate the year that the expedition began.
1937
minted from 1913 through 1938
Silver quarters were minted from 1796 to 1964. Starting in 1965, quarters were made of a copper-nickel alloy.
1913 was first year of issue.
The first Jefferson nickels were released in 1938.
The first Indian Head/Buffalo Nickel was minted in Philadephia in the year 1913. The coin is actually called a buffalo nickel or an Indian head nickel, but not "buffalo head". After all, it shows the entire buffalo, not just its head :)
The US first minted nickels in 1866.You may have a 2004 nickel minted to commemorate the Lewis and Clark expedition. It carries the date 1803 on the back to indicate the year that the expedition began.
1937
minted from 1913 through 1938
Thomas Jefferson is on the current US nickel. His portrait was chosen when the nickel came up for redesign after the familiar Indian Head design had been minted for the required 25 year period. Lincoln had been placed on the cent in 1909, and it was felt that Jefferson also deserved a place of honor because he was one of the Founding Fathers and Washington had been put on the quarter just a few years earlier, in 1932.
Silver quarters were minted from 1796 to 1964. Starting in 1965, quarters were made of a copper-nickel alloy.
Thomas Jefferson's first appearance on a U S Coin was on a One Dollar Gold commemorative dated 1903. Jefferson's image first appeared on a regular circulation coin in 1938, the familiar Jefferson nickel. He also was featured on some 2007 Presidential $1 coins, and is of course on the $2 bill.
5 cents. There were over 2 billion minted that year.
No such thing. The last year buffalo nickels were minted was 1938.
The lowest singlemost minting of an Indian Head "Buffalo" Nickel was the 1926-S with a mintage of 970,000. The lowest minting for an entire year, from all mints, was 1921, with 10,663,000 units minted in Philadelphia, and 1,557,000 minted in San Francisco, for an annual total of 12,220,000 for the year. Compare that with a modern mintage of approximately 900 million units minted each year.