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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;PennyGuy, post: 4307119, member: 17502&quot;]A number of years ago at a smaller local coin show I ran across a booklet that two Michigan collectors had published that cataloged the Michigan Official Wooden Money from 1934 to 1965, that had been issued by communities to help finance their centennial and other celebrations.&nbsp; My interest was drawn by one of the authors being my wife&#039;s uncle.&nbsp; Since then I have attempted to collect the 198 varieties issued by the 67 communities listed in that book. </p><p><br /></p><p>Somewhere the idea took root to update that booklet, so far I have identified 273 varieties from 116 communities in Michigan ranging from 1934 to 1986.&nbsp; A draft of a Second Edition of my uncles book was completed earlier this week. (nothing better to do lately)</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ll attach some pics here:&nbsp; The 1966 First Edition of Michigan Official Wooden Money, and the first Wooden Nickel from Fenton Michigan.&nbsp; The history of Wooden Money noted in a earlier post that Tenino, Washington used wood to create local script in response to bank failures.&nbsp; Fenton, used that idea to create a souvenirs and to help finance that communities Centennial.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://postimages.org/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://postimages.org/" rel="nofollow"><img src="https://i.postimg.cc/FHdRKJqD/Wooden-Money-Book.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://postimg.cc/Y4q77VG2" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://postimg.cc/Y4q77VG2" rel="nofollow"><img src="https://i.postimg.cc/mr7gYWT9/Fenton-1934-HH-34-2.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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