COINS FROM USA TO Canada

lets start with USA - well i started to go through my childhood coin collection of 40 years old well gosh if I knew then just get MOOOOORE silver coins . For the most part silver value cause all my 1.00 .50 .25 .10 and a few .05 to have exceeded value over rarity ,My wheat pennies I'll have to look into .
I recently picked up 2 pounds of Canada .05 years 1960s cause of high nickel content 99.9% when a magnet stuck to them i had a scare till I read they are coated with chrome steal but what about the 99.9% nickel ?? as per INTERNET Wikipedia
so I feel I must of been in error of Canada coins in some past post's. As i thought they were ferris metal now I need to figure whats what with my old .10 .25 Canada coins that the magnet sticks but might be nickel also with the chrome steal coating . Any one know what is the real deal with coins of Canada.
I also have old coins of Europe I'd sell all just to re buy silver.

I love wheats, my personal best is 1909 s vdb ms64 red pcgs graded. I have the complete set of wheats. Right now im just stockpiling copper pennies and nickels. Gold and silver would also be a buy right now, im thinking gold will pop and hit around $1900 by year end. It just broke out above its channel so im seeing alot of upward movement being suggested.

Originally Posted by jghilino

I love wheats, my personal best is 1909 s vdb ms64 red pcgs graded. I have the complete set of wheats. Right now im just stockpiling copper pennies and nickels. Gold and silver would also be a buy right now, im thinking gold will pop and hit around $1900 by year end. It just broke out above its channel so im seeing alot of upward movement being suggested.

Other than the 55 that IS the ONE.

Ok here goes my information for Canadian nickels. My source is the 2002 Standard Catalog of World Coins.

Pre 1922 were .925 silver

1922 - 1981 were nickel with exceptions

1982 - 2000 were copper-nickel with exceptions

EXCEPTIONS

some 1942 were brass

1944 and 1945 were chromium plated steel

1951 and 1952 were chromium and nickel plated steel

some 1996 - 1998 proofs were .925 silver

some 1998 and 2000 commemoratives were .925 silver

Copper Head.... just to ease your mind on the nickels being magnetic. Nickel itself is magnetic. I found that out when sorting my stainless from a food processing plant. The pipes were 316 stainles which has a higher content of Nickel. They have a light pull from a magnet, not the klunk you get from steel. These nickels should lightly attract to a magnet much more softly than say a washer of the same size.