Puerto Rico · Hacienda token

¼ almud token

¼ almud · Hacienda Vega Redonda

A quarter-almud token of Hacienda Vega Redonda, in Bucarabones, Las Marías. Brass, undated, and with no serial. Numista catalogues it as ND (1890), Rulau Lsm 18. This photograph is a single face.

Catalog facts

Reference: Rulau Lsm 18 · Numista N#163262 · TC#272359
Year: No date on the piece. Numista lists it as ND (1890).
Value: ¼ almud
Metal: Brass, per Numista for the type. Not an assay of this disc.
Weight: Not weighed. Numista type: 2.0 g.
Diameter: Not measured. Numista type: 18 mm.
Edge: Not photographed. Numista gives a plain edge for the type.
Place: Barrio Bucarabones, Las Marías, Puerto Rico
Alignment: Not checked. Numista gives medal alignment (↑↑) for the type.
Condition: Unslabbed, and no numerical grade. Golden brass, firm legends, stars and beaded circle complete. The 4 is in outline. Light marks in the fields.

Obverse, ¼ almud Hacienda Vega Redonda, Rulau Lsm 18 — Photographed face of the quarter almud: HACIENDA, VEGA·REDONDA, and ALMUD. This specimen’s reverse was not photographed.

Photographed face of the quarter almud: HACIENDA, VEGA·REDONDA, and ALMUD. This specimen’s reverse was not photographed.

The piece

A plantation token of Hacienda Vega Redonda. The value is in almudes, a volume measure of coffee in the cherry, not in pesos. Numista N#163262 gives the type as brass, 18 mm, 2.0 g, plain edge, milled, medal alignment, and cites Rulau, Latin American Tokens, Lsm 18, plus TC#272359. Those figures describe the type. This disc was not weighed or measured. Numista describes the reverse with the same legend. Only one face is here, and no countermark shows. The mint is unsettled: on other tokens of the series Numista says Germany, with no document, and a biography cites Barcelona. This piece does not choose. It is not a coin of the 1895 provincial peso.

Legend

HACIENDA above, VEGA·REDONDA below, ¼ in the center and ALMUD beneath. A star on each side, a beaded circle, and a denticled border.

Scarcity

This record can cite no mintage. A missing figure does not establish rarity. The two-almud token of the same series is not this disc.

Sources

Numista N#163262 — Hacienda Vega Redonda token (opens in a new tab)
Type: brass, 18 mm, 2.0 g, plain edge, ND (1890), Rulau Lsm 18, TC#272359. Obverse and reverse share the legend. Not this specimen’s weight or diameter.
Haciendas de Puerto Rico — Hacienda Vega Redonda (opens in a new tab)
Gives the place: Bo. Bucarabones, Las Marías. It does not name the owner or date the tokens.

Another token of Hacienda Vega Redonda.

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