nickels

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Going from a bulky commercial hydrogen sensor to a smart device about the size of a stack of three nickels was a technical challenge like that of any consumer-health wearable.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026

He also thinks the government savings from not producing pennies will be offset by the need for more nickels, which are worth five cents but cost nearly 14 cents to make.

From BBC • Oct. 31, 2025

“We don’t take those wooden nickels anymore,” he said.

From Salon • Oct. 28, 2025

To acquire so many coins over that period, he said, he paid people $7.50 an hour to fetch coins for him by exchanging their U.S. dollar bills for nickels at various banks.

From MarketWatch • Oct. 21, 2025

They went to the automat and used up a dollar’s worth of Bruce’s nickels.

From "From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler" by E.L. Konigsburg