These tokens were issued by various states during the Great Depression of the 1930's. They were issued to make change for fractions of a cent for customers to pay the new state sales taxes. The token values were usually in "mills" or 1/10 of a cent. Most issues were for one or five mills. Most states stopped making them in 1935. They are not worth very much now, usually $1.00 or less. A couple of varieties are rarer. The following states issued them: Alabama, Arizona, Colorado, Illinois, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Utah, and Washington. Some of these tokens are from a man who had a sales position in the early 1930's which involved automobile travel throughout the United States and who saved these tokens as souvenirs.