#397 BOO!!! HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!

[LISA B]

QUESTION:

 

Nickel is now a standard metal used in coinage, but this wasn’t always the case.

 

What was the first known use of Nickel in coinage?

 

Our first place winner will receive a copy of The Official Red Book,

A Guide Book of Double Eagle Gold Coins

 

There will also be a runner up prize given to a randomly selected player with the correct answer.

 

REMINDER: The Numisma-Quest ends on Saturday at midnight EST. Entries after that time will not be valid. See the Trivia info post for more details.

 

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[bsshog40]

More than 2,000 years ago, a copper alloy containing around 20% nickel appeared in the form of coins in Bactria, a province of southern Russia.

[bsshog40]

If that's too far back, then I'm going with 1850 by Switzerland

[RGT]

Euthydemos II - c.190-171 BC - Nickel didrachm

 

Bakrian kingdom

[physics-fan3.14]

First US coin - 1856 1 cent piece.

 

First non-us coin - Euthydemos II

Kingdom of Bactria

NI double unit – 7.37 g., 22mm

185-180 BC

Laureate head of Apollo right

Tripod, monogram to inner left

BAΣIΛEΩΣ EYΘYΔHMOY

Bopearachchi Série 6B; SNG ANS 224

[Elbesaar]

1836 Pattern Two Cent Piece - J55a

 

Copper-Nickel

[namvette68]

I believe the first nickel found in coinage was from the Kingdom of Bactria about 180 BC.

[L1ncolnF4n]

Coins from ancient Bactrian as early as 200 BCE

[walt666-migration]

Baktrian nickel coins, Nickel didrachms with a alloy of approx 25% Nickel and 75% Copper, were coined in the 2nd century BC.

 

Walt Ughes

[mhardin2413]

in the U.S., it was the present in the flying eagle 1c, and then in greater percentage in the first indian head cents.

[ritter]

the chinese used nickel in what they call the knife-coin.

[BigBob]

More than 2,000 yrs ago, a copper alloy containing around 20% nickel appeared in the form of coins of Bactria a province of Southern Russia.

[Scott Gardener-migration]

1856, with the Flying Eagle cent, the transition from large to small cents and the introduction of a 12% nickel composition. 1857 was when the coin was first officially minted, but enough 1856 pattern and/or proof coins slipped into circulation that 1856 is effectively considered the first of a three year mintage.

[stinkycheese1]

Indian Head cent coin from 1859–1864

[ritter]

the answer is?

[LISA B]

Sorry for the delay….

 

And the Answer is.......

 

Nickel alloy was first used in Bactria, an ancient kingdom based mainly in what is now Afghanistan and Pakistan, during the reigns of the kings Euthydemus II, Agathocles, and Pantaleon (c.185-180 B.C.).

 

 

Congrats to our first place winner bsshog40 who will receive a copy of

 

The Official Red Book, A Guide Book of Double Eagle Gold Coins

 

Congratulations to physics-fan3.14 for being this week’s runner up winner

 

Please stop by this Friday for the PMG Numisma-Quest question

 

[ritter]

hey lisa,you wrong.it was started with the chinese way before the bacs did it .way before n1751.if you go into the question you will realize the chinese started coins with nickel in it.it was called"the knife-coin"