Welcome to the first issue of The Silver Brief — a quick weekly read on precious metals prices, junk silver flipping, and things worth knowing before you buy or sell. No fluff, no course pitch, just what's useful. Quiet week — both metals drifted down less than a quarter percent — so let's use the calm to cover a coin most flippers walk right past.
War nickels — U.S. Jefferson nickels struck from October 1942 to 1945 — are 35% silver, unlike every other year of that coin. Each one holds about 0.0563 troy oz of actual silver, so a $1 face value roll (20 coins) works out to roughly 1.125 troy oz — around $75 USD at today's spot price, hiding in a coin most people don't think to check. The tell: a large mint mark (P, D, or S) stamped above Monticello's dome on the reverse — no other nickel year has that. We just added these to the calculator's coin presets — price your own roll at 80percentsilver.com.
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