I have passed this one up for a couple of trips to this particular shop. It is the prettiest tax token I have seen. The clash is awesome. Took a couple of different shots to show the clash.
Those are so cool. Ten years ago my brother had me look over a cigar box of old coins that his wife inherited. That box had quite a few tax tokens in it. None anywhere close to how nice yours is. I vowed to learn something about them…. Here ten years later I have still not studied any on them.
After the 12 Caesars of course. Looking forward to a couple of write ups, on the last 2. Ran across a L Julius Ceasar the other day. Look forward to seeing those tax tokens.
I have a bunch from junk bins but never bothered to take pictures of any. I'd like to know more about them though.
I did a thread on Tax Token almost two years ago now. Here is a link. https://www.cointalk.com/threads/sales-tax-tokens.403293/ This one from Tazewell county is a bit scare.
Most of them are like Paddymans examples. red and blue, maybe white. Most aren't made of metal. As soon as the gov felt that the rest would just follow those that paid their taxes diligently. They found themselves chasing money to fill pet programs.
I would imagine that these tax token dies went thru some use. I could see them overstriking previous tokens.
Not in as good condition as some of yours, and I see no clash marks. This is aluminum from 1937-1938. I have some others somewhere, but no pictures and I can't remember where I put them. Getting old I guess (me, not just the tokens.)