FREE: 1865 3 Cent Nickel G-DMG

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1865 3 Cent Nickel G-DMG

Nickel three-cent pieces were intended to serve as small change in circulation and as a substitute for the silver three-cent pieces, in an era in which the government was releasing little new silver coinage into circulation. Silver coin shipments were suspended during the Civil War and were not fully resumed until the early 1870s. Despite great expectations, as evidenced by a mintage of over 11 million the first year, the pieces were not well accepted, and from that point the mintages declined. In later years very few were struck.
The obverse design consists of Miss Liberty wearing a diadem inscribed LIBERTY, her hair neatly arranged. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA and the date surround. The reverse is an adaptation of the laurel wreath earlier used on the 1859 Indian cent, enclosing the Roman numeral III.