The world's biggest nickel producers, already benefiting from nickel prices near 16-year highs, are starting to wax lyrical about the demand potential of the hybrid car market. http://yahoo.reuters.com/financeQuoteCompa...18550361_newsml
Not much, evidently: Most minor coins in circulation are also a form of fiat money, because the value of the material of which they are made is usually less than their value as money. For example, the amount of nickel in a nickel coin today is less than its value as money. http://encarta.msn.com/text_761556418___2/Money.html