One silver war nickel weighs 5 grams and contains 35% silver, or 1.75 grams of silver per nickel. One troy ounce is 31.1 grams. It would take 18 war nickels to make one ounce of silver.
War Nickels contain 35% silver or 0.05626oz of silver.
No, the only US nickels to have silver are the "War Nickels" from 1942 to 1945
No they do not, the ONLY nickels to have any silver are the "War Nickels" from late 1942 to 1946
No US nickels have ever been pure silver, the "war nickels" of 1942-1945 are 35% silver and are the only nickels to have any silver. Post new question.
"War nickels" were made from late 1942 to 1945. Each one contains 1.75 gm of silver, alloyed with copper and manganese. One troy ounce is about 31.1 gm, so you'd need 31.1 / 1.75 or about 18 war nickels to contain a troy ounce of silver.War nickels can be identified by a large mint mark letter over the dome of Monticello on the back. Regardless of popular misunderstanding, they are the only US nickels that contain any silver.
During 1942-45 nickels were made with 35% silver to save copper for the war effort.
With silver at $27.10 per ounce. War nickels are worth about $1.50.
The specific metallic composition of silver war nickels is 56% copper, 35% silver, and 9% manganese.
No Buffalo nickels were struck in silver, only the Jefferson "War Nickels" from 1942 to 1945 have any silver in them.
Only the "War Nickels" of 1942 to 1945 were made with a silver content of 35%
None, because there is no coin called a "buffalo head" nickel, and the only US nickels that ever contained silver were special "war nickels" minted from 1942 to 1945.Buffalo nickels were minted from 1913 to 1938 and are made of the same 75% copper / 25% nickel alloy used for all US nickels except war nickels.
Never. They're called nickels for a reason. The only U.S. nickels to contain any silver at all, at 35%, were "war" nickels dated 1942-1945. Nothing before or after was made of silver.