The motto E PLURIBUS UNUM is displayed above (from Latin: “Out of many, one”). The amount and denomination are written in words around there: FIVE CENTS. The reverse of the coin features Thomas Jefferson’s primary estate, Monticello, which he created himself, in its centre, surrounded by a simple rim. The Denver Mint’s or San Francisco Mint’s mint mark is a tiny letter D or S, placed beneath the date’s final digit to the right of the image, respectively. The Philadelphia Mint does not stamp its coins with a mint mark. A five-pointed star in the right-hand corner divides the word LIBERTY from the year of issue: 1972. IN GOD WE TRUST is written around the left. Initials of the designer, FS, below the shoulder truncation (for Felix Schlag).
The face of Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826), the third President of the United States (1801–1809), facing left, with his long hair wrapped with a ribbon is depicted on the coin’s obverse within a simple border. President Thomas Jefferson appeared on the copper-nickel coin’s obverse from 1938 to 2004. Felix Schlag’s profile of founding father and third U.S. Since 1938, when it succeeded the Buffalo Nickel, the Jefferson Nickel has been the five-cent coin produced by the United States Mint.
1972 Nickels feature the bust of President Jefferson, and have a 75% Copper, 25% Nickel composition.
