French nickels are bigger.

[sierrakev]

Afternoon in local park, de-stress and found some clad. Along comes this odd sounding nickel, wait, half- maybe silver?
Nope. 1972 5 Francs, -just a big ol' nickel... Coolest coin I've dug so far in my half dozen digs. Just wanted to share it.
Happy Hunting all.

 

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[For Airborne]

The copper-nickel alloy, cost is 30 cents

 

[detroitdigger]

That's a pretty cool coin, i once found a 1917 copper 10 centimes French coin the size of a U.S. Half, foreign Colins are alway's cool to find. HH

 

[Bob-E-Pin]

Definitely cool. Good find!

 

[wheatfinder13]

Great find

 

[dig kzoo]

Cool find!