Behold a “beard tax” token from the beard-hating days of Imperial Russia

Under the rule of Russian tzar and infamous beard - hater Peter the Great – which ran from 1682 - 1725 – men sporting facial hair were subject to a beard revenue enhancement that afford them a token inform strangers that they were reliable , tax - pay hair ball . As Erik Jensen explain in a 2003 article from the journal Tax Notes :

For those who elected to forgo the foreplay and keep their beards , one of the squeamish touches of the beard tax was that defrayment “ entitled the proprietor to a pocket-size bronze medallion with a picture of a whiskers on it and the discussion TAX PAID , which was worn on a range of mountains around the cervix to raise to any challengers that his whiskers was legal . ”

you’re able to read more about the history of Peter ’s beard tax here .

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