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Message:: [QUOTE="Just Carl, post: 723609, member: 4552"]I've got a roll of those things from Missouri from when I was a kid. Way, way back when you purchased something there was a sales tax of some percent. Can't remember exactly what it was in Missouri but if you purchased something for $1 and the sales tax was $0.001, the only way to pay for that was with those Mills. They were called sales tax mills when I was there. As a kid some relatives gave me a lot of them since I thought I was really rich with a handfull of those. In Missouri there was several types of those. Don't know why but the $0.001 were usually green or grey. The $0.005 ones were either green plastic or grey metal with a hole in the center. With these you could pay for almost anything in values of any denomination from a tenth of a cent to nine tenths of a cent. As I got older I gave a lot of them away as a joke but luckily I did manage to save a plastic roll of them. May sound dumb in the Chicago area where there is the highest sales tax in the country now at, not sure, think it's 10.25%. Imagine you buy something for $10 and end up paying $11.25. No use for those Mills there.[/QUOTE]