American Money
2006-09-05 04:49:06 · 11 answers · asked by Keepingmycool 5 in Social Science ➔ Economics
Originally it had to do with the value of the metal in the coin. The nickel had a lot of nickel in it but the dime had a large part of silver in it. therefore the dime was worth twice as much but was smaller.
Those were the good old days. Today nothing computes.
2006-09-05 04:50:55 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Is A Nickel 5 Cents
2016-12-10 16:44:50 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
5 cents worth of nickel goes into making a nickel it equals that size..it took more nickel to mint a nickel than silver to mint a dime. Dimes are no longer silver, but they kept the size..
2006-09-05 04:53:12 · answer #3 · answered by oneblondepilgrim 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
originally the nickel was made from 5 cents worth of nickel and the dime was made from 10 cents worth of silver. Silver was worth more than nickel. 5 cents worth of nickel would have been too small.
2006-09-05 04:53:51 · answer #4 · answered by October 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
copper, a penny is made from copper! yet there are some older more effective rarer pennies that are made from aluminum! And 5 cents isn't made from nickel. and there is not any one of those metallic as "dime."
2016-12-06 10:59:46 · answer #5 · answered by nealon 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it is becoz of the spelling (nickel has more alphabets than dime)
2006-09-05 05:05:06 · answer #6 · answered by A 4 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Yes, but the dime is SHINIER.
2006-09-05 04:54:33 · answer #7 · answered by Kathy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've always wonderd why?
2006-09-05 04:50:14 · answer #8 · answered by aintgivinup79 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know
2006-09-05 04:56:44 · answer #9 · answered by katlvr125 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
good question!
2006-09-05 04:49:54 · answer #10 · answered by cmp8423 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋