Quote: Like all of us, John Masters has heard the old warning against taking wooden nickels.
But because he's ignored that adage for more than three decades, Masters now boasts a collection of thousands of the piney tokens, which he keep neatly arranged in plastic sleeves inside a series of loose-leaf binders.
"I've got about 7,000 to 8,000 of them," he said
Saw this article online and thought that I'd post a link here.
Nice article. I have a collection and am a member of the Canadian Association of Wooden Money Collectors, but definitely don't have as many as he does ... maybe a tenth.
I think this is really cool, I love exonumia. I have a somewhat large collection of elongated coins but I have a long way to go before I reach the crazy level this guy is at. I hope he never has a house fire.
A few years ago they handed them out at a coin show I attended, so I took one. Then I accidentally broke it.
Quote: The last coin show I worked some super stud came up to me and gave me one of his wooden nickels/business cards.
At another show (or possibly the same one) I met a dealer whose business cards were in the form of coins, struck in copper. One side depicted the obverse of a double-struck large cent (either 1797 or 1803), while the other had his contact information.
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