HISTORY

The use of nickel dates back to around the fourty century, usually with cooper, as often occurs in the moneral of this metal. Easy to confuse with the nickel ores of silver suggest that infact the use of nickel was later.
Nickel-bearing minerals such us niquelina have been used to color the glass.
Nickel comes from the German Kupfernickel, name give by miners to useless minerals.
Today is very often find in coins. The first pure nickel coin was minted  in 1881.