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I believe it comes from military communications slang where a communications check is answered with the subjective evaluation of signal strength & clarity, one being the lowest & five is the best. Therefore, a response of "five by five" is the highest quality communications and soldiers would commonly say "I've got you spitting nickles" to indicate such.

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