Mexico 1905-Mo AM peso

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Stack's Bowers 2019 Collector's Choice sale, lot 72585
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This specimen was lot 72585 in Stack's Bowers Collector's Choice sale (Santa Ana, CA, October 2019), where it sold for $264. The catalog description[1] noted, "MEXICO. Peso, 1905-Mo AM. Mexico City Mint. PCGS MS-64 Gold Shield. A blistering argent piece, this brilliantly lustrous near Gem offers radiating eye appeal. Destined to elicit a premium bid from the discerning collector of fine Mexican issues. From the Sonoran Sunset Collection." This silver peso superseded the cap-and-ray eight reales and was struck 1898-1905. The Porfirio Diaz government closed several branch mints so that only Culiacan, Guanajuato, Zacatecas and Mexico City struck this type. Only the Mexico City mint remained open after 1905.

Recorded mintage: 3,557,000, a better date.

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

Catalog reference: KM-409.2.

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]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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