Coppers
Nickel
Nickel noun - A hard malleable ductile silvery metallic element that is resistant to corrosion; used in alloys; occurs in pentlandite and smaltite and garnierite and millerite.
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Coppers and nickel are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Coppers" instead a noun "Nickel".
Nearby Words: nickeling, nickeled
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Actually contain no silver (which would make them worth a lot more than their denominations) but consist of an alloy of 75% copper and 25% nickel.note (So they're actually a lot more copper than the 'coppers' are.)
Source: Useful Notes / Old British Money
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