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Pillar of the Community
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Hello all I recently learned about the Mill coin / token from the wiki page. Here's a link. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mill_(currency) I see there are a few appearing on ebay now and then, and most if not all are from Missouri. Does anyone know more about these interesting tokens and if there were more states who minted coins or produced tokens other than Missouri?  After googling "mill coin" I see an example of one from Oklahoma.  Now that I know they exist I'll have to get one! |
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If you google "sales tax token", you will find all you need to know about the tokens issued in the US. For example, This PDF chart from the American Tax Token Society website shows which states issued tokens and for how long the legislation allowing their use was in place in each of the 12 metal-token-issuing states. In other countries, as the Wikipedia article states, Malta, Palestine and Cyprus all had currency systems of 1000 mils to the pound. Hong Kong is the only country to have issued actual coins on a system of 1000 mils to the dollar (China had a similar currency unit, but was called a "cash" rather than "mil"). The French-language equivalent, millieme, has been used in several middle-eastern countries, most notably Egypt. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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Pillar of the Community
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That's great Sap! Thank you very much for the info. I have a lot of information to study up on now.
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Valued Member
United States
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I have a Utah sales tax token. They were made starting in the '30s to the '50s.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Way, way back when I was a kid, relatives in Missouri gave me lots of those. I still have a plastic roll of them. Some were plastic and some metal. The metal ones were for $0.005 and the plastic ones were for $0.001. The plastic ones came in Green and Red and I never did find out why two different colors. Still don't know. And yes they are called Tax Tokens and were used to pay the taxes on sales. Imagine you buy something and the sales tax is $0.003. Compare that with where I live it is now 10.25% on almost anything and they still say they are going broke and want to raise it again.
Sometimes I wish I could go back in time and ask those relatives to send me as many as possible. I would like to have more of the $0.005 metal ones. None had dates on them so making a collection of them would be rather difficult.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Here's my Alabama tax token:   Paid $1 for it |
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I have a Utah sales tax token. They were made starting in the '30s to the '50s.
I also have a few utah tokens,and did a little research. http://historytogo.utah.gov/salt_la.../102394.html Thought some of this was pretty cool...I love the "BLOOD Money" connection. |
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Thanks for your replies, links and photos! The Mill coins and tokens appear readily available on ebay. They come in metal, plastic, cardboard and some in a variety of colors. Here's a pic of a variety of 1 Mill, 2 Mill and 5 Mill metal coins / tokens available:  I like these and will have to pick up a few for my collection. It's nice to know there's a coin / token worth one-tenth of a cent available. According to wiki, the smallest legal tender denomination the US Mint made is one-half cent. But these are the next best thing. Edited by matchbox
04/12/2012 3:38 pm
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Pillar of the Community
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Yes, they are interesting to collect. I bet if you go to a coin show, you can find a bunch looking through dealer's junk boxes.
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United States
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Carl, I believe Missouri also had some royal blue colored sales tax tokens. I distinctly remember inheriting some as a kid, though I can't recall what their value was. I believe it had been for $0.003, but I could be wrong.
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Aluminum and plastic Washington sales tax tokens were readily available when I was a kid, but I don't remember that they could be used. A little disc with a hole in it, worth 2 mills at some time.
"Two minutes ago I would have sold my chances for a tired dime." Fred Astaire
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Carl, I believe Missouri also had some royal blue colored sales tax tokens. Missouri also has a paperboard 1 mill token about a inch and a half across. Missouri was also the last state to use sales tax tokens ending in either 1962 or 64 don't remember which. |
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Posted 04/11/2012 9:09 pm
