I bought a whole bunch of Wooden Nickles today

Meltdown · September 12, 2026 5:59PM

I was at this crazy estate sale full of old "junq" and saw this giant collection. I don't know jack about these and I assume 90% of wooden nickels are not worth much... But, the majority of these seem to be from the early to mid 70s. There are a bunch of California, Oregon & Washington state coin club issues. Many of these are from all over the country.

jmlanzaf · September 12, 2026 6:01PM

If you want to add 10,000 more, let me know. Lol. To me, that's a tiny collection.

skier07 · September 12, 2026 6:11PM

They’re good for kindling.

JBK · September 12, 2026 6:14PM

I guessed you weren't raised with the warning: "don't take any wooden nickels".

They were pretty reasonably priced to have made back in the day. In 1980 I had 1000 made for around $35.

Meltdown · September 12, 2026 6:30PM

Ha. Thanks all... About what I figured. I do remember my parents would joke "dont take any wooden nickels". I paid $22 for this collection today. Not too expensive of a lesson I guess.

JBK · September 12, 2026 6:36PM

I don't think that's a bad price at all for that variety.

MEJ7070 · September 12, 2026 7:12PM

Ive seen a few dealers using those to mark vacant spots in their cases after coins in their inventory have sold.

Thought it was a pretty nifty use for them.

winesteven · September 12, 2026 7:25PM

I have one in my desk drawer that says, “TUIT”. When someone in my household (I won’t name my wife, lol) procrastinates, I ask her, “Will you do it when you get around to it?” And when she says yes, I then hand her that wooden nickel, and say, “OK, you now have a round tuit!”

When I was in high school, one of my teachers said to me, “Steven, you’ll never amount to anything, you procrastinate way too much!” I then replied, “Just you wait!” 🤣

Steve

bigjpst · September 12, 2026 9:14PM

@winesteven said:
I have one in my desk drawer that says, “TUIT”. When someone in my household (I won’t name my wife, lol) procrastinates, I ask her, “Will you do it when you get around to it?” And when she says yes, I then hand her that wooden nickel, and say, “OK, you now have a round tuit!”

When I was in high school, one of my teachers said to me, “Steven, you’ll never amount to anything, you procrastinate way too much!” I then replied, “Just you wait!” 🤣

Steve

My dad used to have wooden nickels made as advertising and on the back they always had the TUIT. Still have a couple on my desk.

johnny9434 · September 12, 2026 9:14PM

Interesting, hope ya find some real cool ones

jmlanzaf · September 13, 2026 3:42AM

@Meltdown said:
Ha. Thanks all... About what I figured. I do remember my parents would joke "dont take any wooden nickels". I paid $22 for this collection today. Not too expensive of a lesson I guess.

I don't think it's a "lesson". They are what they are. If you like them, $22 is a perfectly reasonable price for fun.

Onastone · September 13, 2026 5:32AM

Great holder with even some spaces to add more! I would've bought that too.

cladking · September 13, 2026 5:54AM

@Meltdown said:
Ha. Thanks all... About what I figured. I do remember my parents would joke "dont take any wooden nickels". I paid $22 for this collection today. Not too expensive of a lesson I guess.

These are a lot of fun to collect and trade.

Wholesale prices are very low.

You might want to specialize. My favorite are industrial manufacturers and bicentennial but I collect several others as well.

BigFrankie · September 13, 2026 7:08AM

@Meltdown said:
Ha. Thanks all... About what I figured. I do remember my parents would joke "dont take any wooden nickels". I paid $22 for this collection today. Not too expensive of a lesson I guess.

Not expensive or a lesson at all, if you enjoy looking at them from time to time. It appears they sell frequently on eBay. Currently there are "30,000+ results for wooden nickel"!

csanotes · September 13, 2026 7:58AM

A meme I have saved on my phone in the favorites folder for when a special friend or relative starts going down the road.

@winesteven said:
I have one in my desk drawer that says, “TUIT”. When someone in my household (I won’t name my wife, lol) procrastinates, I ask her, “Will you do it when you get around to it?” And when she says yes, I then hand her that wooden nickel, and say, “OK, you now have a round tuit!”

When I was in high school, one of my teachers said to me, “Steven, you’ll never amount to anything, you procrastinate way too much!” I then replied, “Just you wait!” 🤣

Steve

BLUEJAYWAY · September 13, 2026 9:22AM

Good buy. The case has many uses,parts,hardware etc, if the nickels were taken out and displayed elsewhere.

JimTyler · September 13, 2026 11:11AM

Didn’t you ever hear “ Don’t take no wooden nickels “ ? Well, I guess you did.

I bought a whole bunch of Wooden Nickles today

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