I don't know if this is technically exonumia, but couldn't find a more appropriate forum. I just wanted to share this. I received it from my deceased grandmother's things.
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We can narrow down the dates this was produced by the coins pictured. The
Jefferson nickel shows that it couldn't have been produced before 1938. The lack of a
Roosevelt dime might mean it was produced before 1946. The ending date is harder to pin down, as the older coins surely circulated a long time after the new coins came out, and the company may not have cared to change the design.
-wheatiefan