Alabama Tax Token Anyone Know What Year They Were Used?

I have seen dates in the mid-1800s claimed on ebay, but can't substantiate such claim.

The expert on allexperts is basically correct, except it was the 1930s and '40s, not the 1950s and '60s, that these tokens probably saw most of their use.

American "sales tax tokens" began to be issued following the Depression, when watching every penny could mean the difference between eating for another week, or going hungry. WWII saw token usage drastically reduced, as producing them "wasted" valuable war materials, and using them along with ration coupons etc was complicated. By the 1960s, the mil was truly not worth the effort to exchange, and the last tax tokens were formally withdrawn.

This link to the American Tax Token Society FAQ page is quite informative. Click on "Timeline of Issue" over on the left hand side and you'll see a .pdf file with a timeline of usage for each of the token-issuing states. According to this, Alabama tokens were used from March 1937 to March 1948.

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