Early issues of scrip

Hacienda de Tenextepango

This hacienda in Ayala, the property of Isidoro de la Torre y Goríbar and dedicated to the production of sugar, was considered the most productive in the state of Morelos.

A series of four values (1 real, 2 and 4 reales) from the 1840s turned up recently. These were printed together on a single sheet.

Hacienda de San Gabriel

The sugar mill (ingenio azucarero) at San Gabriel de las Palmas
(México, Bosquejo General, The Pan American Union, Washington, D. C., 1911)

This hacienda is situated in Amacuzac. Its construction began in 1529 under the orders of Hernán Cortés, with impressive barrel vaults and semicircular walls. Initially, the hacienda served as a monastic house for the Franciscan order, but it was then transformed into a sugar plantation that would later become the largest and most influential sugar mill in Mexico. During the Mexican Revolution, the hacienda served as Emiliano Zapata's headquarters.

In 1880 some workers from this hacienda complained to the editor of El Aldeano that they were paid with paper (boletos, papel-moneda) which they could only spend within the hacienda^{El Libre Sufragio, Mexico City, 1a Epoca, Núm. 48, 9 January 1880}.

Both these ex-haciendas are available for weddings.