Nickel Round (Ni)

Nickel Round - one AVDP ounce - .995 bullion   Nickel is a silvery-white transition metal with a slight golden tinge that is corrosion resistant and can take a high polish. It was first classified as an element by Axel Fredrik Cronstedt in 1751. It has a much longer history of use in ancient civilizations thought to have been unintentional as its ores could easily be mistaken for those of silver or copper. White copper from China as early as 1700 BC and called baitong was not known to contain nickel until 1822. Likewise bronze made in ancient Syria from as early as 3500 BC has been found to contain nickel.  Nickel is named after the mischievous sprite (akin to Old Nick) from German mythology blamed for keeping miners from being able to extract copper from the red mineral they mined in Erzgebrige (their Ore Mountains). Nickel has a history of monetary use from Dutch coins first minted in 1833 to the first U.S. coins in the 1850s, Swiss coins in 1881, and Canadian coins in 1922.  Nickel