Puerto Rico · Hacienda token
½ almud token
½ almud · Hacienda Vega Redonda
A half-almud token of Hacienda Vega Redonda, in Bucarabones, Las Marías. Brass, undated, and with no serial. Numista catalogues it as ND (1890), Rulau Lsm 17. This photograph is a single face.
Catalog facts
- Reference
- Rulau Lsm 17 · Numista N#524158 · TC#344505
- Year
- No date on the piece. Numista lists it as ND (1890).
- Value
- ½ almud
- Metal
- Brass, per Numista for the type. Not an assay of this disc.
- Weight
- Not weighed. Numista does not publish a weight for this type.
- Diameter
- Not measured. Numista type: 23 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 2 is stippled in the body. Light marks in the fields.
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. Numista N#524158 gives the type as brass, 23 mm, plain edge, milled, medal alignment, with no published weight, and cites Rulau Lsm 17 and TC#344505. The comment says the hacienda belonged to Francisco Baco and that the token was struck in Germany, with no document. Those lines do not measure this disc. Numista describes both faces with the same legend. Only one is here, and no countermark shows. A biography places the die in Barcelona. This record does not choose a mint. It is not a coin of the 1895 provincial peso.
Legend
HACIENDA above, VEGA·REDONDA below, ½ 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#524158 — Hacienda Vega Redonda token (opens in a new tab)
Type: brass, 23 mm, plain edge, ND (1890), Rulau Lsm 17, TC#344505. No weight. The comment gives the hacienda to Francisco Baco and the striking to Germany, with no citation.
- 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.
