Ancient, British and World Coins and Banknotes

A Small Collection of Peruvian tokens, Haciendas: Apurimac, Abancay, Dr Lazaro Letona, Hacienda Pachachaca, bronze Quarter Quintal Aguardiente [brandy token] (Rulau 9), Hacienda San Gabriel, bronze Quintal Aguardiente (Rulau 18); Madre de Dios, Paucartambo, Paucartambo Rubber Co Ltd, black vulcanite 2 and 1 Soles (Rulau 5, footnote); La Libertad, Chicama Valley, Guillermo Alzamora, Hacienda Chiclin, vulcanite 10 Centavos, 1876 (Rulau 11); Lima, Chancay Valley, Geronimo Sanchez, Hacienda Caqui, vulcanite 10 Centavos, 1877 (Rulau –); Unattributed, Hacienda Cayalti, copper 1 Libra Carne [1lb meat] (Rulau –); Hacienda Laredo, rectangular aluminium Carne (meat) token (Rulau –); Hacienda de Santo Domingo, brass 50 Centavos, 1876 (Rulau –); Hacienda Tambo Real, aluminium 50 Centavos (Rulau –); Media Res (half cow) brass token (Rulau –) [11]. First four very fine and better, others generally fine, several rare (£50-70)

The sugar cane plantation of Pachachaca, donated to the Jesuit Order in Spanish colonial times, passed into the hands of the widow of Antonio Arroz, a second-generation Argentinian planter, who took as her second husband Lazaro Letona, a doctor from El Salvador. Letona was so successful that by the late 1880s he had become the richest landowner in Abancay