Wage token Tienda de Raya

Wage token (Tienda de Raya) - obverseWage token (Tienda de Raya) - reverse

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Features

Location Mexico
Period Federal Republic (1823-1905)
Type Trade tokens › Wage token
Year 1871
Value 1 Tarea de Leña
Weight 12.39 g
Size 33.31 mm
Thickness 2.19 mm
Shape Oval
Orientation Medal alignment ↑↑
Number
N#
87205

Obverse

Script: Latin

Lettering:
TIENDA DEL RIO
ZAC. 1871

Translation: Hacienda Del Rio store. Zac.

Reverse

Script: Latin

Lettering:
VALE
1
TAREA DE LEÑA

Translation: Worth one Tarea of firewood

Edge

Smooth

Comments

The tokens were used to pay the Mexican peasants working in Haciendas. They could exchange the tokens at the Hacienda's store for food, liquor, clothing, or firewood. The Hacienda owners we are also proprietors of the stores, known as "Tienda de Raya". It was a way to assure that the peasants were in constant debt with their masters. Debts were passed on generation to generation. They were abolished in 1915.
A firewood "Tarea" is the equivalent to 4 m3 of wood.
ZAC stand for the central Mexican State of Zacatecas.

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Date VG F VF XF AU UNC
1871 

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