Alabama Tax Tokens Any Ideas on Dating These?

[Ohio Jerry]

This Ohio site has me baffled. It's marked on an 1871 map and the flat buttons I've found seem to fit the era but I've also dug four wheaties from the 30's and a pile of aluminum bottle caps.Tonight i found two tax tokens from the Alabama state tax commission.Still looking for at least an Indian head from this site but temps in the 90's has been cutting my hunting time a little short these days. Any ideas on dates for these tokens will be appreciated..Happy hunting!
Jerry

 

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[dkw]

They were most likely lost around the same time as the wheaties you found.


http://www.taxtoken.org/timeline.pdf

 

[ivan salis]

march 1.1937 to march 31 .1948 -- a 11 year 1 month time frame for date of "original issue" --- but date of lost could be from march 31 1937 to now --- kids could have been using the "worthless" old token as play money since after march 31. 1948 they were "useless" and to be brutally honest folks hated those tax tokens at the time they were used according to everything I ever read about em.

 

[BuckleBoy]

Jerry,

The site could've been occupied that long. Is the property owner old enough to remember the structure being there still?


-Buckles

 

[Ohio Jerry]

They were most likely lost around the same time as the wheaties you found.


http://www.taxtoken.org/timeline.pdf

Thanks dkw!!

 

[Ohio Jerry]

march 1.1937 to march 31 .1948 -- a 11 year 1 month time frame for date of "original issue" --- but date of lost could be from march 31 1937 to now --- kids could have been using the "worthless" old token as play money since after march 31. 1948 they were "useless" and to be brutally honest folks hated those tax tokens at the time they were used according to everything I ever read about em.

Thanks Ivan Salis,these are marked "luxury tax token" how exactly were they used ? Was alcohol considered a luxury.Jerry

 

[Ohio Jerry]

Thought i would add a shot of how the first tax token was found. I thought this was a keeper for sure!!
Buckles,the property owner is my age(51) and there hasn't been anything standing in our lifetime. It's time to pick his brain a little more though!! LOL
Jerry

 

[ivan salis]

there was a form of couple mills sales tax put in place to funds nut houses --poor wards and other such "public works" -- why they use the word Luxury god only knows --- you paid say 1 cent "tax"per $10 spent --but the us's smallest coin was 1 cent --say you spent a buck and paid a cent in tax --you were owed 9/10 of a cent in "change" ---so they gave you 9 tax "cents" tokens to use to pay future taxes with --as you can see it was a pain and folks hated using and toting em.

 

[stefen]

march 1.1937 to march 31 .1948 -- a 11 year 1 month time frame for date of "original issue" --- but date of lost could be from march 31 1937 to now --- kids could have been using the "worthless" old token as play money since after march 31. 1948 they were "useless" and to be brutally honest folks hated those tax tokens at the time they were used according to everything I ever read about em.

Thanks Ivan Salis,these are marked "luxury tax token" how exactly were they used ? Was alcohol considered a luxury.Jerry

There was a time when luxury items consisted of luggage, perfumes, and a whole list of other items...not sure if booze was considered a luxury.

 

[IndianRiverSonrise]

I found some of those over by the Alabama/Florida panhandle border on a site that was a burned down hotel used heavily during WW!!. The other items from the site were circa 1944-1947.