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:
“Hard labor and spare diet they had, and off wooden trenchers, but they had peace and freedom, and the wailing of the tempest in the woods sounded kindlier in their ear than the smooth voice of the prelates, at home, in England.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Castro couldn’t even go to the bathroom unless the Soviet Union put the nickel in the toilet.”
—Richard M. Nixon (1913–1995)