Word: nickels
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...1926D Buffalo nickel, worth $5 in 1953, brought $45 in 1962 and $190 this year...
Another basic low-priced item in any U.S. coin collection is proof sets-packets of specially polished samples of the half dollar, quarter, dime, nickel and penny sold by the U.S. mint for $2.10. About 200,000 of the proof sets for 1960 had a smaller-than-average zero in the date on the penny, and the price for these has bounced within the past few weeks from...
...Stephen Bayne, 55, executive officer of the Anglican Communion. A former bishop of Olympia, Wash., Bayne travels more than 150,000 miles a year coordinating everything from missionary work to seminary needs for the churches, says, "There isn't a church that doesn't have a nickel's worth of me." Both Bayne and Ramsey agree that the communion at large seems in good health. Some specifics...
...tons at last count, and its rushing brown rivers could generate 15 million kw. of electricity, more than is now produced by the entire TVA system. Its miners already dig 90% of Brazil's iron ore, 95% of its bauxite, beryllium and mica, all of its graphite and nickel, most of its diamonds and gold. Its furnaces and factories lead the country in pig iron, steel and ferrous alloys, rank second in aluminum, cement and lime. And on its rolling farm lands, 16.5 million cattle and 8,500,000 hogs fatten for market. All this, though it is just...
...spurs on dirt tracks where only the winner gets to eat, and grease clings to their fingernails. But now their brokers phone regularly, their names are printed in big block letters on the sides of their cars-and they owe it all to a 500-lb. hunk of aluminum, nickel and cast iron that is just as tough as they are: the Meyer-Drake Offenhauser engine. Force-fed by fuel injection, the Offy gulps methanol (wood alcohol) at the rate of one gallon every four miles. It has only two gears-low and high-and four cylinders, but it turns...