Show disappearing sales tax tokens offer mystery DENVER what happens to all of if the sales tax tokens in america state treasurer charles armstrong of colorado has admitted that he solve the mystery in his own state much less in the nation he said it was giving him the jitters in circulation or elsewhere in colorado alone there are of the little aluminum discs the treasurer said in a report he pointed out that was tokens for every man woman and c hild child in the state they cost the state to manufacture at the colorado penitentiary 1 I know that every man and woman in the state running around with 33 tokens jingling in his or her pockets armstrong said so what happens to them some of the missing millions of tokens are in cash registers armstrong guessed and quite a few have been taken into other states by tourists he said he supposed a few thousand more were in the vest pockets of worn out suits or the corners of discarded purses then there was the fad of wearing a bunch of tokens in necklace form that was almost as much a drain as the new idea of using them for poker chips the tokens were square tor for the first couple of years but the state got too many complaints about ripped trousers pockets and changed to round tokens about the size of a nickel when the tax was made permanent to finance old age pensions merchants and individuals have brought damaged or worn out tokens in for redemption in the last four years and more have been thrown away by the treas frers office the rest of them of them in fact still are in circulation or should be |