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wooden nickel

cheap counterfeits circulating in 1850s America. [Am. Hist.: Brewer Dictionary, 1164]
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In a single week in September, he buckled in the face of Russian pressure and he took a giant wooden nickel from Iran.
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Wild Oats gives you the option of taking 5 cents off your bill for each bag you bring in and use or getting a wooden nickel for each bag, which can be donated at the door to a local charity.
A coin dealer confirmed that this was no wooden nickel. The coin turned out to be a rare gold reproduction of an Austrian four ducat, valued at $300.
They were arrested as part of Operation Wooden Nickel, a massive undercover federal operation in the currency markets.
* "Lower expectations by pretending to give the store away when actually you've only conceded a wooden nickel or two."
Hershey Medical Center in Hershey, Pa., Firestarters can drop a "wooden nickel" on anyone they spot doing a good deed, says Anthony Ardire, MD, former medical director, clinical improvement and safety officer at Hershey and now a medical director at Studer.
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