Hacienda tokens from Yucatán (eastern Yucatán)
Municipio of Tizimín
Cuyo de Ancona
Cuyo de Ancona is located in the municipio of Tizimín, in the upmost righthand corner of Yucatán, on the border with Quintana Roo. The hacienda was owned in 1895 by Ramón Ancona Bolio.
Grove 1322
Obverse: ESPECIAL / CUYO DE ANCONA 1895 / 5
Reverse: same
19mm. nickel
Grove 1323
Obverse: ESPECIAL / CUYO DE ANCONA 1895 / 10
Reverse: same
20mm. nickel
Grove 1324
Obverse: ESPECIAL / CUYO DE ANCONA 1895 / 25
Reverse: same
24mm. nickel
Grove 1325
Obverse: ESPECIAL / CUYO DE ANCONA 1895 / 50
Reverse: same
27mm. nickel
Grove 1326
Obverse: ESPECIAL / CUYO DE ANCONA 1895 / 100
Reverse: same
35mm. nickel
Grove 1327
Obverse: ESPECIAL / CUYO DE ANCONA 1895 / 500
Reverse: same
38mm. nickel
Obverse: ESPECIAL / CUYO DE ANCONA 1895 / 1 (peso)
Reverse: same
lead
[if relevant] Eusebio Escalante Bates, Raymundo Cámara Luján, Agustín Vales and other Yucatecan entrepreneurs founded the Compañía Agrícola del Cuyo y Anexas, S.A., which employed more than 1,500 workers and controlled an extensive 2,627 km² estate located in the northwest of Yucatan.
"rich in dye wood, ideal for the cultivation of sugarcane, vanilla, tobacco, corn or cereals, as well as suitable for harvesting sea salt [...] Among the productive activities of the plantation, we can highlight the exploitation of forest resources (dyewoods, precious woods for cabinetmaking, and hard woods for construction), as well as the extraction of resins (chicle), the production of sea salt, the cultivation of sugarcane, the development of tobacco, cocoa, cotton, banana, and vanilla plantations, … Likewise, for self-consumption by its inhabitants, corn, rice, beans, and all other available natural products were produced on the mentioned estate [...] The dye wood exported by the Company was in demand in the European textile manufacturing markets of Hamburg, Le Havre, and Liverpool. As for chicle, its main destination was New York City, with an average commercialization of 400,000 kg per yearEdgar Joel Rangel González, "Plantaciones agrícolas-forestales en la costa oriental de Yucatán: explotación forestal, colonización y arrendamiento, 1890–1910" in Segundas Jornadas de Historia Económica de la Asociación Mexicana de Historia Económica, 11 November 2021.
The Compañía Agrícola del Cuyo y Anexas, S.A faced strong competition from the Compañía Colonizadora de la Costa Oriental de Yucatán, S.A., which had the participation of Olegario Molina Solís and several capitalists from Mexico City close to the cientifícos.