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Sales tax tokens

Scope note

Monetary tokens used in the United States, primarily in the 1930s and 1940s, to pay sales tax when coins of proper denomination were not available.

Term type

AAT

Getty AAT term number

3000205368

Broader Terms used

<monetary tokens>

Equivalent Terms used

sales tax token

Created

13yrs ago

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