Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/Nickel (United States coin)

Nickel (United States coin)
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The result was: scheduled for Today's featured article/March 4, 2013 by BencherliteTalk 12:04, 15 February 2013‎ (UTC)



The nickel is a five-cent coin issued since 1866 by the United States Mint, composed of 75% copper and 25% nickel. The silver half dime, also equal to five cents, was first issued in the 1790s. The economic upset of the American Civil War drove gold and silver from circulation, and the government at first issued paper currency in place of low-value coins. As two-cent (in 1864) and three-cent pieces (1865) without precious metal content had been successfully introduced, Congress authorized a five-cent piece of base metal; the Mint began striking this in 1866. The Shield nickel, the initial design, was struck until 1883, when it was replaced by the Liberty Head nickel. As part of a drive to increase the beauty of American coinage, the Buffalo nickel (shown) was introduced in 1913; it was followed by the Jefferson nickel in 1938. After using special designs in for the bicentennial of the Lewis and Clark Expedition in 2004 and 2005, the Mint reverted to using Jefferson nickel designer Felix Schlag's original reverse (or "tails" side), although substituting a new obverse by Jamie Franki. Three points, March 4 is the centennial of the official release of the Buffalo nickel one of the four major designs the nickel has seen. Six points minus three for Turban Head eagle, February 19 (so I'll understand if Bencherlite thinks it's too soon to run another coin). Incidentally, I don't see any significant coin anniversaries until October, so ...--Wehwalt (talk) 16:50, 8 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Support the beauty of American coinage on a relevant date, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:46, 8 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Conditional Support, subject to two small points. First, I feel we let our readers down if a link in the article is "red", particularly in the introductory section, so please could an expert start an article about Jamie Franki? It doesn't need to be a long and conprehensive article; just so long as an interested reader can learn something extra by clicking the link! Second, this is very soon after the Turban Head eagle, but I understand the importance of this article on the requested date - centenaries don't come along every year! - so could we agree not to have any further numismatic articles for a while? Wehwalt doesn't see anything significant coming up in terms of coin anniversaries till October, so perhaps we could say "no more coins for six months"? I'm not quite sure how to do this, but it might be worth considering. Thank you. RomanSpa (talk) 23:37, 12 February 2013 (UTC)
 * I think we should leave the next coin up to the delegate, although as I said, there are no significant anniversaries (multiples of 25, that is) until October. That being said, six months for running an article a couple of weeks early sounds very excessive.  I don't know about Franki, I'd have to look both on the web and see if I have any materials "in house".  Perhaps it would help if you understand that I no longer greatly care if articles I've worked on run or not, I'm just trying to help out Bencherlite?--Wehwalt (talk) 23:46, 12 February 2013 (UTC)
 * I think that's a very fair comment. Thank you. RomanSpa (talk) 00:07, 13 February 2013 (UTC)


 * Support as a strong date connection, & on a basic coin, but it is very close to the last US coin. I dare say Wehwalt won't mind an extra long gap after this, as RomanSpa suggests. This will I think leave 13 US coin FAs in the TFA stockpile. Johnbod (talk) 15:03, 14 February 2013 (UTC)
 * I was thinking of nomming United States Bicentennial coinage for July 4. That's about the timeframe we're looking at.--Wehwalt (talk) 15:22, 14 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Four months would be fine. Johnbod (talk) 15:27, 14 February 2013 (UTC)