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Wooden money

During the Great Depression, when cash was hard to come by, the city of Tenino, Washington printed its own scrip on bits of wood. Now, the antique printing press is busy again producing wooden currency, adorned with Latin, for those hard-hit by the COVID shutdown. Luke Burbank reports.
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