Puerto Rico · Hacienda token
2 almudes token
2 almudes · Hacienda Vega Redonda
A two-almud token of Hacienda Vega Redonda, in Bucarabones, Las Marías. Brass, undated, and with no serial. Rulau Lsm 15. Numista does not yet list this value. This photograph is a single face.
Catalog facts
- Reference
- Rulau Lsm 15
- Year
- No date on the piece. The rest of the series is listed on Numista as ND (1890); this value has no page there.
- Value
- 2 almudes
- Metal
- Brass, like the rest of the series on Numista (¼, ½, and 1 almud). Not an assay of this disc.
- Weight
- Not weighed. No published type weight is cited here for this value.
- Diameter
- Not measured. No published type diameter is cited here for this value.
- Edge
- Not photographed. No type edge is published here for this value.
- Place
- Barrio Bucarabones, Las Marías, Puerto Rico
- Alignment
- Not checked. A single face does not fix the alignment.
- Condition
- Unslabbed, and no numerical grade. Golden brass, firm legends, stars and beaded circle complete. The 2 is stippled in the body. Light marks in the fields. No countermark shows.
Photographed face
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. AB Philea, auction 30, lot 1118, groups the quarter, half, one, and two as Rulau 15–18; this disc is Lsm 15. Numista publishes the quarter, half, and one (N#163262, N#524158, N#570378) and not this value. The metal is taken from the rest of the series: brass. This disc was not weighed or measured. Only one face is here, and no countermark shows. The mint is still open: Numista says Germany on other tokens, 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, a 2 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. With this disc the case holds all four values of the Rulau 15–18 set.
Sources
- AB Philea, auction 30, lot 1118 — Rulau 15–18 set (opens in a new tab)
Describes a set of quarter, half, one, and two almudes as Rulau 15–18. It places the two as Lsm 15. This record does not republish the price.
- 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.
- Biografía de las Riquezas de Puerto Rico — Coins (opens in a new tab)
It cites Revista NumiExpo, 1983, pp. 10–11, for a striking on Carrer de la Canuda 37 in Barcelona, and uses the name Francisco Bacó. It is not a mint archive.
Related pieces
Another token of Hacienda Vega Redonda.
