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5 Cents '1867 Nickel' Pattern, nickel
| Issuer | United States Mint |
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| Year | 1867 |
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| Currency | Dollar (1785-date) |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The 1867 nickel five-cent pattern emerged from a genuine monetary crisis: wartime hoarding had driven silver and copper coins almost entirely out of circulation, leaving private brass tokens issued by merchants to fill the void. Congress wanted a cheap, hoarder-proof replacement. Nickel industrialist Joseph Wharton lobbied aggressively for the metal, having cornered the domestic supply at his Pennsylvania mines — his fingerprints are on the legislation that made this composition official.
Judd-566 is one of several competing pattern configurations evaluated that year before the final design was settled. The without-rays reverse variant won.