And he that hath lyberte ought to kepe hit wel / For nothyng is better than lyberte / For lyberte shold not be wel sold for alle the gold and syluer of all the world. -Caxton's edition of Aesop's Fables, 1484
Thank you for posting this! The only one of these coins I new was pure nickel was the Canadian nickel. I gotta go through my little stash of base foreign coins.