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Please check your pocket change. Billions of nickels were minted* in 1964 to help alleviate coin shortages during the changeover from silver to cupronickel in higher denominations. That date remains one of the most common in circulation prior to coins minted in the 1990s and 2000s.

(*) FWIW #1, coins are said to be minted or struck. "Stamped" usually refers to industrial items like spoons and fenders.

FWIW #2, nickels struck at Philadelphia in 1964 did not have a P mint mark. That letter has been used on nickels only from mid-1942 to 1945, and again from 1980 to the present.

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