Mexico 1904-Cn RP peso

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from the Stack's Bowers 2017 Collector's Choice sale, lot 72701
photo courtesy Stack's-Bowers LLC

This specimen was lot 72701 in Stack's Bowers Collectors Choice Online Auction (Santa Ana, CA, May 2017), where it sold for $587.50. The catalog description[1] noted, "MEXICO. Peso, 1904-CnRP. NGC MS-63. Key date. Sharply struck with attractive luster." This date is known from Culiacan (shown here and with assayer MH), Mexico City and Zacatecas. The 1904-Cn MH peso is common, the 1904-Cn RP is quite scarce.

Recorded mintage: 1,554,000 (assayer MH and RP).

Specification: 27.07 g, 0.903 fine silver, .786 troy oz ASW.

Catalog reference: KM-409.

Source:

  • Buttrey, T. V., and Clyde Hubbard, A Guide Book of Mexican Coins, 1822 to date, 6th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 1992.
  • Elizondo, Carlos A., Eight Reales and Pesos of the New World, San Antonio, TX: 1968.
  • Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1901-2000, 47th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
  • Raymond, Wayte, The Silver Dollars of North and South America, 2nd Ed., Racine, WI: Whitman Publishing, 1964.
  • Utberg, Neil S., The Coins of Mexico, 1536-1963, San Antonio, TX, 1963.
  • [1]Ponterio, Rick, et al., The May 2017 Collector's Choice Sale, Santa Ana, CA: Stack's Bowers LLC, 2017.

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