Hacienda Tabonuco Sabana Grande Puerto Rico 2 Centavos Token.
Item History & Price
| Reference Number: Avaluer:9903575 | Certification: Uncertified |
| Circulated/Uncirculated: Circulated |
HaciendaTabonuco (HT) was a coffee plantation owned by Damiani Hermanos of SabanaGrande. Thistoken (#400) is listed as scarce in Fumero's Hacienda Tokens of Puerto Ricocatalog.Onpage 147 of his Catalog, Fumero wrote:HT stands for Hacienda Tabonuco. It was located at barrio Tabonuco in Sabana Grande. DH stands for Damiani Hermanos. By the 1890’s the Damianibrothers, Silvio and Santos, advertised their grocery store and coffeeplantation in the commercial guides of ...Puerto Rico.Mariano A. Gonzalez listed the five-knowndenominations of the tokens of Hacienda Tabonuco in his 1951 article The Puerto Rican Coffee Plantation Tokens, published in The Numismatist magazine. On page 49 of this article Mariano Gonzalez stated thatthis “plantation was named Hacienda Tabonuco and its owners were DamianiHermanos. The plantation was at Sabana Grande. The tokens were made atMayaguez.”
