Mexico 1904-Cn H 20 centavos

Ponterio sale 159, lot 9017

photo courtesy Ponterio & Associates

from the Mountain Groan Collection

This specimen is a slightly scarce date of a series struck 1898-1904 at the Culiacan mint, which closed in 1905. A rare 1904/3 overdate is also noted. Altho centavos, silver pesos and gold twenty pesos are known from Culiacan for 1905, no twenty centavos are known for that date. This twenty centavo piece replaced the twenty-five centavo piece struck 1869-92. It, in turn, was replaced by a smaller twenty centavo piece in the 1905 reform that changed "Republica Mexicana" to "Estados Unidos Mexicanos." The first specimen was lot 9017 in Ponterio sale 159 (Baltimore, March 2011), where it sold for $115. The catalog description^[1] noted, "MEXICO. Culiacan. 20 Centavos, 1904-CnH. NGC MS-63."

Specification: 5.41 g, 0.903 fine silver, .157 troy oz ASW.

Recorded mintage: 253,000.

Catalog reference: KM 405.

Source:

Bailey, Don and Lois, Whitman Encyclopedia of Mexican Money, Volume 1, An Illustrated History of Mexican Coins and Currency, Atlanta: Whitman Publishing, 2014.
Buttrey, T. V., and Clyde Hubbard, A Guide Book of Mexican Coins, 1822 to date, 6th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 1992.
Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1901-2000, 47th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
Utberg, Neil S., The Coins of Mexico, 1536-1963, San Antonio, TX, 1963.
Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1801-1900, 9th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
^[1]Ponterio, Richard, Ponterio sale 159: the March 2011 Baltimore Auction, featuring the Len Novotny collection, Irvine, CA: Stack's-Bowers & Ponterio, 2011.

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