A wooden nickel, in the United States, is a wood token coin, usually issued by a merchant or bank as a promotion, sometimes redeemable for a specific item such as a drink.
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Famous quotes containing the words wooden and/or nickel:
“All of our lives is a rebus
Of little wooden animals painted shy,
Terrific colors, magnificent and horrible,
Close together.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)
“Castro couldn’t even go to the bathroom unless the Soviet Union put the nickel in the toilet.”
—Richard M. Nixon (1913–1995)