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<p>[QUOTE="cwtokenman, post: 4308620, member: 2100"]I imagine there would have to be duplicates in a collection of that size, but if one were to include all types of wooden nickels ever issued in the USA, I would believe there are multi-millions of different wooden nickels. To use my home state of Ohio as an approximation example, 1,000,000 divided by 50 (states) divided by 88 (counties) = approx. 227 issues per county to have 1,000,000 different wooden nickels.</p><p><br /></p><p>Over the years, the POWMC has probably issued several hundred woods itself between its "Lighthouses of the Great Lakes" series and wooden money show woods, not to mention the multitudes of other local issuers there has been in the county.</p><p><br /></p><p>I checked Luedtke's book "Guide Book of Wooden Money", 9th edition to see if he mentioned how many varieties there might be. I did not find a number for that, but he did mention that Sambo's restaurants have issued over 2,500 different woods, and that about 5,000,000 wooden nickels are made each year.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="cwtokenman, post: 4308620, member: 2100"]I imagine there would have to be duplicates in a collection of that size, but if one were to include all types of wooden nickels ever issued in the USA, I would believe there are multi-millions of different wooden nickels. To use my home state of Ohio as an approximation example, 1,000,000 divided by 50 (states) divided by 88 (counties) = approx. 227 issues per county to have 1,000,000 different wooden nickels. Over the years, the POWMC has probably issued several hundred woods itself between its "Lighthouses of the Great Lakes" series and wooden money show woods, not to mention the multitudes of other local issuers there has been in the county. I checked Luedtke's book "Guide Book of Wooden Money", 9th edition to see if he mentioned how many varieties there might be. I did not find a number for that, but he did mention that Sambo's restaurants have issued over 2,500 different woods, and that about 5,000,000 wooden nickels are made each year.[/QUOTE]
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