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wooden nickel cheap counterfeits circulating in 1850s America. [Am. Hist.: Brewer Dictionary, 1164]
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As liberal columnists go - and go they must - this Maureen Dowd woman is spot-on the wooden nickel. Doctors are human like everyone else, says consultant Quint Studer, "they want appreciation, and on a consistent basis," but few will sell their loyalty for a wooden nickel. On display are dolls, coins, tools, clothing, Civil War items, petrified walrus tusks, a 1909 Edison gramophone, wooden nickels, Howdy Doody glasses, a rattlesnake skin necktie, an eight-legged pig (preserved) and 30,000 buttons. |
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