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50 Centavos Pattern; Caballito; Plain Edge; Silver

Features

Issuer Mexico
Period United Mexican States/Mexican Republic (1823-date)
Type Patterns
Year 1908
Value 50 Centavos (0.50 MXP)
Currency Peso (1863-1992)
Composition Srebro
Weight 11.2 g
Diameter 30 mm
Shape Okrągły
Technique Frezowana
Orientation Coin alignment ↑↓
Demonetized 1908
Number
N#
392688
References KM# Pn176
Standard Catalog of World Coins (86 volumes).
, PL# 02
Pablo Rodolfo Luna Herrera; 2018. Las pruebas de la moneda Mexicana del siglo xx = The proofs of the Mexican coinage of the 20th century. Self-published, Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas, Mexico.

Commemorative issue

100. rocznica "Krzyku o niepodległość"Automatically translated

Series: Caballito Peso Patterns

Obverse

(en) Issuer's name above its coat of arms. With value divided in number at left base of cactus and ¢ at right, and after that the word ESSAI in very small lettering; which indicates possible commission of pattern to a French engraver, whose name appears on the reverse.

Script: łaciński

Lettering:
ESTADOS UNIDOS MEXICANOS
50 ₵
ESSAI

Reverse

(en) Liberty riding a horse. On her right hand an oak branch and on her left a flaming torch, with the sun raising on the horizon. The assayer's name at left near rim, and the word ESSAI near the right rim.

Script: łaciński

Lettering:
CH.PILLET
.1908.
ESSAI

Edge

ZwykłyAutomatically translated

Mint

Mexican Mint (Casa de Moneda de México), Mexico, Mexico (1535-date)

Comments

(en)

This coin would be minted for the centenary of Mexico's independence, during the period in which the Resplandor  Peso was not minted. 

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Date VG F VF XF AU UNC
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