Mexico 1904-Zs FM peso

Stack's Bowers 2019 Collector's Choice sale, lot 72592

This specimen was lot 72592 in Stack's Bowers Collector's Choice sale (Santa Ana, CA, October 2019), where it sold for $156. The catalog description^[1] noted, "MEXICO. Peso, 1904-Zs FM. Zacatecas Mint. NGC MS-63. An immensely argent specimen, featuring problem free surfaces and a hint of golden toning near the peripheries. Highly pleasing." This silver peso superseded the cap-and-ray eight reales and was struck 1898-1905 and 1908-09. The Porfirio Diaz government closed several branch mints so that only Culiacan, Guanajuato, Zacatecas and Mexico City struck this type. For 1904, assayers FM and FZ are about equally available. Only the Mexico City mint remained open after 1905.

Recorded mintage: 2,423,000, including assayer FZ.

Specification: 27.07 g, 0.903 fine silver, 39 mm diameter.

Catalog reference: KM-409.3.

Source:

• Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1901-2000, 47th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
• ^[1]Orsini, Matt, Richard Ponterio and Kyle Ponterio, The October 2019 Collector's Choice Sale: World and Ancient Coins, Santa Ana, CA: Stack's Bowers LLC, 2019.

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