Calmalli (1894-97) 4 reales token
This specimen was lot 47138 in Stack's Bowers ANA sale (Chicago, August 2024), where it sold for $216. The catalog description[1] noted, "MEXICO. Calmalli. Copper 4 Reales Token, ND (1894-97). PCGS MS-62." Calmalli is a village in Baja California Norte that was a gold mining district in the late nineteenth century. Altho decimal coinage had been in circulation for a quarter century by this time, this token is still denominated in reales. "TIENDA DE RAYA" translates as "clothing store", likely operated by one of the mining companies. Baja California was a territory, not a state, during the republic. Baja California Sur was split off in 1931 and the remainder became a state in 1952.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: copper.
Catalog reference: Rulau-BCN-2.
- Bailey, Don and Lois, Whitman Encyclopedia of Mexican Money, Volume 1, An Illustrated History of Mexican Coins and Currency, Atlanta: Whitman Publishing, 2014.
- Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1801-1900, 9th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
- [1]Orsini, Matt, Kyle Ponterio and Jeremy Bostwick, August 2024 Global Showcase Auction, World & Ancient Coins, featuring The Emilio M. Ortiz Collection, The Richard Margolis Collection and The Rutherford Collection, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers Galleries, Inc., 2024.
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- 1894-MO centavo
- 1894-CA 5 centavos
- 1894-CN 5 centavos
- 1894-GO 5 centavos
- 1894-HO 5 centavos
- 1894-MO 5 centavos
- 1894-ZS 5 centavos
- 1894-GO 10 centavos
- 1894-DO 10 centavos
- 1894-MO 10 centavos
- 1894-ZS 10 centavos
- 1894-HO 50 centavos
- 1894-AS 8 reales
- 1894-CA 8 reales
- 1894-CN 8 reales
- 1894-DO 8 reales
- 1894-GA 8 reales
- 1894-GO 8 reales
- 1894-HO 8 reales
- 1894-MO 8 reales
- 1894-ZS 8 reales
- 1894-GO gold peso
- 1894-MO gold peso
- 1894-AS 10 pesos
- 1894-ZS 10 pesos
- Coins and currency dated 1894
- return to Mexican imperial and republican coinage, 1822-1905