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An 1865 3-cent piece struck in Philadelphia to help alleviate the coin shortage caused by the American Civil War. This first-year example of the new 3-cent “nickel”—the silver 3-cent pieces had mostly disappeared by 1862—marks the first appearance of the 25% nickel, 75% copper alloy that would become such a fixture of American coinage.
(Note the Roman-style “III” unaccompanied by “cents,” which worked fine with this coin, but whose success probably helped lead to the disaster of the “no cents” V-cent piece of 1883.)
1865, final year of the War and first year of the Peace. Abraham Lincoln’s famous words from his second inaugural address in March, 1865: “With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds….” That was March 4th. The war would end on April 9th, and Lincoln’s life would end a week later, on April 15th.
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