It isn't silver. Nickel "silver" refers to an alloy of copper with nickel and zinc to make it look like silver but it really contains no silver at all.
All nickels except "war nickels" from 1942-45 are made of copper-nickel, not silver. What you have is an ordinary coin worth 5 cents.
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.
Buffalo head nickels were never made of silver. See the related question below for the value of a regular 1934 nickel.
None have any silver value. US nickels made from 1866 to mid-1942 and from 1946 to the present are made of a copper-nickel alloy, not silver.
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 nickel was never made with silver, it is made with nickel, hence the name.
All circulation dimes dated 1965 and later are made of copper-nickel, not silver.
Ten cents. It's made of nickel, not silver.
Canadian nickels (1922 and later) never contained silver. A 1967 Centennial nickel is made of 99.9% nickel and is worth about 15 cents in above-average condition.
Circulation "Ikes" were made of copper-nickel rather than silver. They're only worth face value.
Canada stopped using silver in its coins in 1968. Your quarter is made of nickel and worth face value only.