Arizona Tax Commission Token found

[Rhondatay19]

Hello, we are new to the forum. My husband found an Arizona State Commission Tax Token this afternoon. We were wondering how old it might be. It was found in Escondido, Ca.
Thank you for any information you may have for us.
Rhonda & Terry

 

[idahotokens]

Schimmel's U. S. State-Issued Sales Tax Tokens shows this as #AZ-6 with dates of 1946-48.
John in ID

 

[AU24K]

Here's a neat site that I've submitted to. They are looking for different examples of lots of tokens. Perhaps they need yours.

http://tokencatalog.com/display_records.php?action=DisplayRecords&td_state=Arizona&td_city=

http://tokencatalog.com/display_rec...SearchStringAnyWord=tax&action=DisplayRecords

Scott

 

[Rhondatay19]

thank you both for your responses. this was good information. i have emailed the website to see if they happen to know the date of the token. we did see the one like we found on their site, so they probably won't need our picutre, but you never now.
have a great day!
Rhonda

 

[Rhondatay19]

BTW..... when you find these treasures, are you supposed to clean them up or keep them in the condition you find them?
How do you clean up old copper & brass?

 

[idahotokens]

Did you miss the dates I put in my post above?

As for cleaning - that one doesn't look like it needs any. In any event, cleaning can ruin any value a coin, token, or medal might have if done improperly. There are lots of posts on this forum about good techniques.

John in ID

 

[tinkb]

I agree with John on this one. That token look to nice to clean up. Any attempt to make it any shinier would just hurts it value IMO. Nice find also, I like finding those old tokens.

 

[cwtokenman]

In Malehorn and Davenport's "United States Sales Tax Tokens and Stamps: A History and Catalog, this token is identified as AZ-S6. It has an R-1 (very common) rarity rating.

There are 3 minor strike varieties:

AZ-S6a - There are thick letters and a rounded numeral on the reverse.
AZ-S6b - There is a partially rounded, partially flat numeral on the reverse.
AZ-S6c - There are thin letters and a flat numeral on the reverse.

I think Schimmel's made an error on years of issue. Schimmel indicates next to the photos that years of issue for that design were 1937-1945, then does not indicate and years of issue for the copper variety and shows 1946-48 for the brass variety. Not sure how that can be.

Malehorn and Davenport list the copper version as being struck from 1937-1942. Your brass variety is listed as being struck in 1945-1946 at a mintage of 550,000, and these tokens were made by the Osborne Register Company. They also note that Gordon Jones of Phoenix, Arizona bought a hoard of 200,000 AZ tokens when the state discontinued use of them, so additional varieties may be waiting to be discovered.

 

[Tank69]

awsome lookin token I live here an have never found one of those , wtg