Nice 43D silver nickel and some teller fishing coins

[NZ49er]

Hey all. Went through a box of nickels today. Got this decent condition 43D. Was happy to realize it was the lowest mintage of the war silvers. Also got these foreign coins from the teller: (3 Canadian quarters, one Aruba 10 cent, one 1 eurocent -Germany, 10 cents New Zealand) and a tiny 1935 tax token.

Reads: New Mexico Bureau of Revenue / Emergency School Tax on Purchase of Twenty-Five Cents/ Tax Token / Five Mills.

I'm happy with the token, but I can't seem to find much on its purpose/history. Anyone got any clues? Thanks for looking and happy hunting.




NZ49ER

 

[GB1]

nice finds

 

[dejapooh]

5 mills is a half cent. 1 mill is 1 thousandths of a dollar.

Sounds like an interesting piece. Tax revenue was hard to come by during the depression, so they wanted every cent they were owed. If on some business with the government, you ended up owing say $17.015, you would give them $17.02 and get this token as a holder to say that the next time you owed 5 mills, you could pay $17.01. Obviously, the state lost out big time on this, having to produce these tokens... it was actually more of a loss to the state to make these up and get the half cents than to just round it.

 

[NZ49er]

Awesome info. Thanks! I knew I'd read about mills somewhere. Should have figured 1/1000 of a dollar. Wonder who's idea these tokens were. Probably some special interest folks.

 

[maine_Jim]

https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces20569.html

Maine_Jim

 

[Professor of Engineering]

Congratulations!

 

[Twitch]

That’s an outstanding find. The ‘43-D is the only one I lack for a complete set of wild found Jefferson’s.