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Wooden nickels from the Allentown, Pennsylvania Bicentennial in 1962 Office for Emergency Management, War Production Board (circa 1942–43). In the United States, a wooden nickel is a wooden token coin, usually issued by a merchant or bank as a promotion, sometimes redeemable for a specific item such as a drink.
Before the U.S. Mint began striking nickels in 1866, it produced five-cent coins in silver known as half dimes from 1792 to 1873. Now, some of those nickels are worth big bucks , even reaching ...
A 2004 USA Geocoin. A geocoin is a metal or wooden token minted in similar fashion to a medallion, token coin, military challenge coin or wooden nickel, for use in geocaching, specifically as form of a calling card.
Used unknowingly in alloys since antiquity. The first pure nickel coin was the Swiss 20 Rappen of 1881. A book published by the International Nickel Company of Canada in 1933 lists dozens of coins minted out of nickel. Phosphorus: Used in stainless steel alloy Acmonital for the Italian lira coins. [11] Silicon
1979 Susan B. Anthony Dollar Over 1978 Jefferson Nickel: $15,275. This coin features a minting mistake with the image of Susan B. Anthony stamped over the top of Monticello on a Jefferson nickel ...
In numismatics, token coins or trade tokens are coin-like objects used instead of coins. ... Wooden nickels, another type of token, ...
Exonumia are coin-like objects, such as tokens or medals ... Wooden nickel This page was last edited on 18 May 2023, at 19:13 (UTC). Text ...
Last week, owners of Amazon.com's Kindle Fire tablet computers were pleasantly surprised to find themselves in the possession of 500 brand new "Coins" -- a new, virtual currency developed by the ...