I had this idea for a junk silver nickel replacement

[Jimbo7136]

Hear me out here,

 

In the event of hyperinflation, we here in the US have dimes, quarters and halves, and of course ounces of silver, but no nickel, well unless you count the war nickel, but it's more silver than half of a dime.

So in counting, you'd have 10c 20c 25c 35c 45c etc, but no 5c or 15c.

War nickel is 0.05625 Troy Ounce, Dime is .0715 of which half would be .03575‬, so it's way too much to be a proper nickel to, the dime, by silver value I mean.

However, there is a coin which is about half the price of a dime and just over half the silver value: the 1920-1946 UK Sixpence 0.04546 Troy Ounce, still a bit too much, but you can buy them buy the Kg from the UK so the price is right.

Australian or UK 92.5% threepences would be better but they're way too expensive the 50% sixpence can be had for about $1.29 whereas the best I could find for the 92.5% threepences was around $2.38 to $2.54 nearly the same as an American 90% dime.

If the situation is hyperinflation but not end-of-the-world catastrophe then people could look it up on their phone but I still don't know if people would be willing to accept it.

What do you guys think?

[SilverSurfing]

I think your assessment is right and we could safely say if people knew the face value of a silver/part silver coin then they would accept them. There is always an out with precious metals, either industry or dealers...

Good Work!