Tax tokens of New Mexico, USA

In the 1930s, U.S. states issued sales tax tokens to collect sales tax on small purchases where the tax was less than 1 cent. In New Mexico, these tokens were used, among other things, to pay an emergency school tax.

5 mill (1/10 cent)
16 mm., copper
1935
5 / TAX TOKEN FIVE MILL / EMERGENCY SCHOOL TAX ON PURCHASE OF TWENTY FIVE CENTS / Emblem
NEW MEXICO BUREU OF REVENUE / 1935 / Eagle