It depends on the economy, they make as many as needed.
According to the US mint, about 1023.60 million nickels were made in 2012. This is just over 1 billion.
You could have: 8 nickels and 1 penny or 6 nickels and 11 pennies or 4 nickels and 21 pennies or 2 nickels and 31 pennies. The option of 0 nickels and 41 pennies is excluded by the necessity that the amount is made up of dimes, nickels and pennies; 0 nickels would mean the $1.21 was made up of dimes and pennies only.
There are 40 nickels in a roll of nickels.
340 nickels
700 nickels
Nickels are made every year. Millions or billions are produced.
No no no. The last year for buffalo nickels was 1938, and nickels have NEVER been made of gold.
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The US has never made coins from pure nickel. Canadian nickels were made of 99.9% pure nickel from 1922 to 1999, except during wartime due to metal shortages.
38,612,000 Liberty Head nickels were made in 1906. All were struck at the Philadelphia Mint.
1913 was the first year of issue for Buffalo nickels. They were made every year until 1938 except for 1922-1932-1933.
According to the US mint, about 1023.60 million nickels were made in 2012. This is just over 1 billion.
The first Jefferson nickels were made in 1938.
1945 is the last year for the 35% war nickels. The composition was changed in late 1942 due to wartime metal shortages. ALL other US nickels, regardless of date, are made of an alloy of 25% nickel and 75% copper.
The only US nickels that ever contained silver were special "war nickels" made from late 1942 to 1945. All US nickels from 1866 to the present are made of the same alloy of 25% nickel and 75% copper. War nickels were made of an alloy of 56% copper, 35% silver, and 9% manganese because nickel metal was needed for the war effort. These coins are distinguished by a large mint mark letter over the dome of Monticello on the back.
No, Nickels are made from a mixture of 25% Nickel and 75% Copper.
Yes. 39,557,639 nickels were struck that year, all at Philadelphia. Liberty nickels were made every year from their first release in 1883 to the end of the official series in 1912. There's more information at the Related Question.