Question: is the coin nickel made of nickel?
Answer: The nickel is the United States' five-cent coin. We know the five-cent coin as a nickel, but it wasn't always so. ... A new five-cent coin, made of nickel (and copper), was created in 1866…but the half disme kept being made of silver until 1873. So both kinds of five-cent coin were circulating at the same time.