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Newly minted Hollywood mogul David Ellison is trying to make good on a promise he made to former Paramount film chief Sherry Lansing.

What’s Next: Right now, the nickel is the only minted U.S. coin whose metal value is more than its face value.

A U.S.-minted nickel weighs exactly 5 grams, meaning each coin has about 3.75 grams of copper and 1.25 grams of nickel.

Spain and Portugal minted the world’s money when they found gold and silver in the Americas and used it to buy consumer goods.

Now that silver prices surging again, those pre-1965 silver coins amount to one of several ways to invest in physical silver besides silver bars and more recently minted silver coins like U.S.