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6 Cents Ohio Sales Tax Receipt
| Issuer | State of Ohio |
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| Value | 6 Cents 0.06 USD = CAD 0.08 |
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| Obverse description | Vermilion and dark blue letterpress printing on yellow-orange underprint. The consumer's receipt portion carries two navy oval denomination medallions reading '6 CENTS' flanking a central vignette of a landscape scene, with scrollwork surrounds and a cartouche bearing 'STATE OF OHIO / PREPAID SALES TAX / CONSUMER'S RECEIPT'. The left vendor's stub is printed in black with the denomination '6 CENTS'. |
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| Obverse lettering | VENDOR'S STUB 6 CENTS STATE OF OHIO PREPAID SALES TAX CONSUMER'S RECEIPT COLUMBIAN BANK NOTE COMPANY |
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Ohio's Depression-era sales tax tokens and fractional receipts were a practical response to the administrative nightmare of collecting tax on small purchases — when the math on a penny tax produced fractions, states needed something to bridge the gap. The Columbian Bank Note Company, based in Chicago, handled a significant share of this state fiscal printing work during the 1930s, supplying receipts and tax instruments to multiple Midwestern states.
The watermark is the only security feature — enough to deter casual counterfeiting of a six-cent instrument, though the real protection was economic: no one bothered forging receipts of such negligible face value.