Mint hoping to cash in on Jefferson's smile.(Main)

WASHINGTON - Coming soon to our cash registers - a smiling Thomas Jefferson looking straight at you from a new nickel.

The Mint plans to begin shipping 80 million of the new 5-cent coins today to the 12 regional Federal Reserve Banks. They will be the first of an estimated 1 billion new nickels which will be put into circulation over the next year.

Since 1909 when Abraham …