Honestly, I'm not totally sure. I'm a coin collector, but most of my coins are located with a metal detector and dug out of the ground. Old nickels are usually a dark brick or liver color coming out of the dirt. This particular nickel has been floating around the house for awhile now. I'm not sure if it came out of my collection, or if one of mykids brought it home from who-knows-where.

I've been toying around with the idea of getting some gear together, some batteries, and taking a metal detector back out into the parks around here to see about finding some Mercury dimes. I love those things.