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No. US nickels have never contained any gold. For one thing, even when the price of gold was much lower a gold coin the size of a US nickel would have been worth several dollars; today it would be worth hundreds.

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that's kind of a no brainer because you answered it on your own. ;) It contains 14k gold which is 58.3%.


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