While most of the coinage one encounters in everyday life is worth only face value — and some its value in silver, as is the case for silver war nickels minted between 1942 and 1945, according ...

The Buffalo nickel (sometimes called the Indian Head nickel) was produced from 1913 to 1921 and 1923 to 1938. A five-cent coin made of copper-nickel, it depicts the bust of a Native American ...