Sales Tax Token

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</b><br><br>Pictured above is a Missouri Sales Tax token. From what little information I have been able to find about them, it appears that these were made by various states starting around the time of the Depression when the States enacted sales taxes. <br><br>Back in those days, rounding to the nearest cent on a transaction would mean quite a bit more than today. These tokens were, apparently, denominated in mils (1/10 of a cent) and were given out as change by retailers to eliminate this rounding. <br><br><b><a href="http://users.pullman.com/fjstevens/tokens/taxinfo.html" target = "_blank">General Information</a></b>