Indian Head (or Buffalo) nickels were struck before Jefferson nickels (1913-1938) Liberty nickels were struck before Indian Head nickels (1883-1912)
Mintage of the 1943-P Jefferson nickel is 271,165,000.
Buffalo Nickels were made before the Jefferson nickles.
Before the Jefferson nickels and the Buffalo nickels, there used to be nickels with a V on them. V is the roman numeral for five.
Indian Head (or Buffalo) nickels were struck before Jefferson nickels
Jefferson nickels have been minted since 1938. Aside from various portrait changes, no other design has been minted since then.
The first Jefferson nickels were made in 1938.
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No they do not, the ONLY nickels to have any silver are the "War Nickels" from late 1942 to 1946
The first Jefferson nickels were released in 1938.
One US nickels weighs 5 grams. This means it would take 97.72 nickels to make one pound of nickels. The president on the US nickel is Thomas Jefferson.
Modern nickels are normally called Jefferson nickels because they have a picture of Thomas Jefferson on them, not Washington. There's more information at the Related Question linked below.