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    2 days ago

    conveniently, a US nickel ways about 5 grams, so that’d be at least 100 million kilograms of nickels. for comparison, the us mint only produced about 566,000 kilograms of nickels in 2024. at that rate, it would take 176 years to produce a billion dollars worth of nickels. i strongly doubt that there exist that many nickels in existence.