Five-cent coins

Usage examples of nickels.

But little by little--in nickels and dimes and quarters--Theodore laid by another five dollars.

As soon as its contents had been arranged as attractively as possible on the clean white marbled oilcloth with which the stand was covered, and the coffee made and ready to serve, Theo handed Jimmy two dollars in dimes, nickels and pennies, to make change, and set off with the box of paste in his pocket, and the roll of rags under his arm.

He did not, however, believe that Theo meant to leave him actually in charge, until he found himself established behind the neat counter with fifty cents in nickels and pennies in his pocket, to make change.

Her purse, containing a miserable handful of dimes and nickels, was in her trunk, and her trunk was in the hands of the landlady.

She succeeded in begging a couple of nickels, bought a bag of apples from a vender, and, returning to the park, sank exhausted upon a bench.