Many Precolumbian coins from Mexico show significant mintage variances from the more recent Whitman and Krause publications catalogs, due in part to coin varieties.
For example, the 1993-Mo Mexico Anciano Con Brasero has two varieties, one with the mintmark to the right, and the other with the mintmark to the left:
(https://en.numista.com/catalogue/photos/mexique/g1098.jpg, https://en.numista.com/catalogue/photos/mexique/g1099.jpg)
As these mintage tables show, the Numista mintage figures match the original paper by Don Bailey that had no variety attribution:
BW-913.3 1993 Anciano Con Brasero 1 Oz (mintmark right) PROOF
1,500 Don Bailey's Pre-Columbian Series Of NCLT Coins, 1992 – 1998 PAGE 7
1,500 Don Bailey's Whitman Encyclopedia of Mexican Money Volume 2 PAGE 394
1,500 https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces22073.html
4,160 Harper's North American Coins & Prices (2018) PAGE 731
4,160 Standard Catalog of World Coins 1901-2000 (2018) Pg 1551
BW-913.3a 1993 Anciano Con Brasero 1 Oz (mintmark left) PROOF
n/a Don Bailey's Pre-Columbian Series Of NCLT Coins, 1992 – 1998 (included above?)
2,160 Don Bailey's Whitman Encyclopedia of Mexican Money Volume 2 PAGE 394
n/a https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces22073.html (included above?)
n/a Harper's North American Coins & Prices (2018) PAGE 731 (included above)
n/a Standard Catalog of World Coins 1901-2000 (2018) Pg 1551 (included above)
BW-913.3 1993 Anciano Con Brasero 1 Oz (mintmark right) BU
2,650 Don Bailey's Pre-Columbian Series Of NCLT Coins, 1992 – 1998 PAGE 7
1,500 Don Bailey's Whitman Encyclopedia of Mexican Money Volume 2 PAGE 394
2,650 https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces22073.html
3,800 Harper's North American Coins & Prices (2018) PAGE 731
3,800 Standard Catalog of World Coins 1901-2000 (2018) Pg 1551
BW-913.3a 1993 Anciano Con Brasero 1 Oz (mintmark left) BU
n/a Don Bailey's Pre-Columbian Series Of NCLT Coins, 1992 – 1998 (included above?)
1,700 Don Bailey's Whitman Encyclopedia of Mexican Money Volume 2 PAGE 394
n/a https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces22073.html (included above?)
n/a Harper's North American Coins & Prices (2018) PAGE 731 (included above)
n/a Standard Catalog of World Coins 1901-2000 (2018) Pg 1551 (included above)
A source of these low mintage figures is almost without exception the Pre-Columbian Series Of NCLT Coins, 1992 – 1998 by the late Don Bailey, a distributor of Mexican coins, found online at http://www.moneta-coins.com/library/Mexico's%20Precolumbian%20Series%20-%20Bailey.pdf.
Don Bailey's distribution efforts in Mexican coins were so successful that the Casa Moneda de Mexico was able to move additional quantities of these coins. As an example, this 2005 document shows that none of the Pre-Columbian Series of coins had sold out by that date: http://donbailey-mexico.com/images/Catalogo_Monedas_150dpi.pdf
The Bank of Mexico cites Harper's North American Coins & Prices, a Krause publication, for its numismatic collection (http://www.banxico.org.mx/ColeccionNumismatica) of coins, the Catálogo en línea de la Colección Numismática del Banco de México.
However, use of Whitman Encyclopedia is recommended for the mintages for these varieties since the Krause publications make no mention of them.
Attentively,
