Next, a little pocket deception.
Keep wandering ↓Which one has
more copper?
Pick a coin. Or go straight to the answer.
The nickel. And it’s not even close.
60×
as much copper.
In the silver-looking one.
A penny is copper-coated zinc.
A nickel is 75% copper.
one nickel
sixty pennies
Equal copper mass. Not equal spending money.
Modern U.S. penny & nickel · copper content by mass
The receipts
U.S. Mint specifications ↗
Penny: 2.5 g × 2.5% = 0.0625 g copper. Nickel: 5 g × 75% = 3.75 g copper. Ratio: 60. Based on rounded specifications, not individual coin measurements. The coin collection compares copper content, not face value or total coin mass.