Old Age Token

A consumer’s tax token from Oklahoma. The reverse is what caught my eye. For Old Age Assistance. It made me laugh.

 

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Where do we get ours CN?

 

At least you knew where your excise tax was being spent. Nowadays it just goes down the black hole

 

That’s fantastic, close to home!

 

@Collecting Nut I picked up a large lot of these some years back along with Missouri sales tax tokens from a friend in Missouri. 1930's I believe or thereabouts. The Missouri were made of zinc.

 

And plastic.

 

Yepper, had a few of those also.

 

And paper, like the milk bottle tops.

 

I didn’t even know that these were available until I bought a small token lot. A few doubles and some really nice older meat ones. And this was also in the lot. A single piece but so cool:

 

For you it is but not me, half the country away. Lol

 

Please post them if you still have them.

 

You do have a number of neat items.

 

I grew up in Oklahoma. I have one token like yours, which I think is aluminum, and I also have a "5" denomination (5 cents?) which appears to be brass. Sorry, no pics.

 

In the days before Soc Sec and union pensions the states were responsible for those areas. The feds shut the the states down, claimed it was in violation for fed law about nobody minting money. Mostly I think it was they couldn't figure out how to get a cut of the money, even when the a mount was 2 5 etc mills not cents

Here is my copy of the tax book a great history of the states that had them or tax stamps

 

Oklahoma is my home of heritage as well. Grew up there and all my family live there still.

 

Where at?

 

Oklahoma. The whitish one is not metal.

 

Mom is in Catoosa. Sister in Claremore. Brother is in Broken Arrow and my daughter is in Oklahoma City. I was the black sheep and took out for greener pastures.

 

Cool old stuff from a different time in US history. I still have a small collection of them.

 

I couldn’t help but think of you visiting your mother last year when I saw this.