“We basically treat the wood money just like cash,” Chris Hamilton, the store manager at Tenino Market Fresh, told CNN. People have used the wooden bills to purchase groceries and home repair ...

“The wooden money's back in the bank almost 100 years later,” laughs Hallett. Original Tenino currency has sold for up to $4000 but the wooden dollar isn't ancient history. “It is still used ...

Loren Ackerman prints wooden money on an 1890s-era press in Tenino, Wash. In an effort to help residents and local merchants alike get through the economic fallout of the coronavirus pandemic, the ...

In this May 21, 2020, Loren Ackerman holds a piece of wooden money he printed on an 1890s-era press in Tenino, Wash. In an effort to help residents and local merchants alike get through the ...

The current Tenino Wooden Dollars are printed with the same newspaper press from the 1890s that was used in the 1930s with custom engraving blocks.