9 Cents - Ohio Consumer's Receipt

Ohio's consumer receipts were not currency in any conventional sense — they functioned as tax instruments, issued to document sales tax payments on small transactions where the arithmetic of the state's percentage-based levy produced fractions of a cent. The 9-cent denomination addressed a specific rounding gap in the Ohio retail sales tax structure, allowing cashiers to reconcile odd-cent charges without handling fractional coin.

Few were preserved. They were expendable by design, discarded once the transaction was recorded.