Big Nickel

The Big Nickel is a 9-metre replica of a 1951 Canadian nickel, placed at the grounds of the Dynamic Earth technology museum in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. The twelve-sided nickel is positioned on a small hill overlooking the intersection of Municipal Road 55 and Big Nickel Drive on the westernmost cease of the Gatchell neighbourhood. The Big Nickel celebrated its forty fifth anniversary on July 22, 2009 with a "birthday celebration" on the grounds of Dynamic Earth, such as a display of cash from Science North's Inco Coin Collection.

The idea for the Big Nickel began in 1963 whilst Ted Szilva, on the time a 28-year-antique City of Sudbury fireman, examine inside the Sudbury Star of a contest, subsidized with the aid of the Sudbury Canada Centennial Committee asking Sudbury residents how the City should rejoice the imminent Canadian Centennial. Szilva put forward the idea for a major traveler attraction featuring a giant duplicate of a five-cent coin, an underground mine and a mining technological know-how centre. Szilva's concept become rejected because the committee felt that "it did not have sufficient use for the citizens of Sudbury as such".