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They were issued so that people could get change for uneven sales tax. There were valued at 1/10 of a cent. So if you bought something for $1.89 and sales tax was 3% the total would be 5.7 cents. So you would pay $1.95 and get three tokens back that you could use at other places to pay the point-something sales tax. Now the tenths of a cent are just rounded.
