tokens.......

[randall61]

not much just these two colorado tax tokens.

Randall

 

[history hunter]

Cool tokens.

 

[SpiderCoil]

Nice. I have a few, someone told me they were for bread and dairy products during either WWI or WWII.

 

[john09]

 

[Mackaydon]

"Colorado used sales-tax tokens from Sept. 1, 1935,to Feb. 28, 1945, according to American Numismatic Association curator Doug Mudd. When they were no longer used, the roughly 77 million tokens still in circulation could be redeemed until June 1945."

"Mudd said the 2-mill tokens were used when Colorado established a sales tax of 2 percent and had to figure out how that would be paid in amounts less than 1 cent. Sales of 5 cents or less had no tax, 6 to 14 cents had one token, 15 to 24 cents two tokens, etc. Sales tax on 45 to 50 cents was a penny. Mudd said the tokens were issued in huge numbers, first in aluminum and then plastic."

Don....

Source:http://gazettewonder.blogspot.com/2006/03/colorado-sales-tax-tokens-are-from-30s.html

 

[allen]

sweet finds !!
put them on the token forum
for age and approximate value !!

 

[curbdiggercarl57]

"Colorado used sales-tax tokens from Sept. 1, 1935,to Feb. 28, 1945, according to American Numismatic Association curator Doug Mudd. When they were no longer used, the roughly 77 million tokens still in circulation could be redeemed until June 1945."

"Mudd said the 2-mill tokens were used when Colorado established a sales tax of 2 percent and had to figure out how that would be paid in amounts less than 1 cent. Sales of 5 cents or less had no tax, 6 to 14 cents had one token, 15 to 24 cents two tokens, etc. Sales tax on 45 to 50 cents was a penny. Mudd said the tokens were issued in huge numbers, first in aluminum and then plastic."

Don....

Source:http://gazettewonder.blogspot.com/2006/03/colorado-sales-tax-tokens-are-from-30s.html

Good finds, good info.

 

[Marbleguy]

I used to find those..

...in Idledale,Co back around 1988 when I was a lieutenant with the Idledale Volunteer Fire Dept.

 

[sodapoptop]

Nice Tokens Randall