Mexico 1986 peso KM-Pn235

from the Stack's Bowers 2018 Collector's Choice sale, lot 71331

from the Mountain Groan Collection

The first specimen was lot 71331 in Stack's Bowers Collector's Choice sale (Santa Ana, CA, May 2018), where it sold for $228. The catalog description^[1] noted, "MEXICO. Pattern Peso, 1986-Mo. PCGS MS-64 Secure Holder. Struck in stainless steel. Brilliant with just a light veneer of tone." As inflation ground away at Mexican prosperity, the once proud peso relentlessly shrank. The final circulating type (KM 496) struck in stainless steel, featured Jose Maria Morelos, hero of the war of independence. This pattern, even smaller, was never adopted for production but the reported mintage is much too low.

Recorded mintage: 33.

Specification: stainless steel.

Catalog reference: KM-Pn235.

Source:

• Amaya Guerra, Carlos Abel, Epitome Ilustrado de la Moneda Mexican Moderna, 1905 a 2015, Monterrey, Mexico, 2015.
• 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, 1901-2000, 47th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
• ^[1]Ponterio, Richard, Kyle Ponterio and Chris Chatigny, The May 2018 Collector's Choice Sale, Santa Ana, CA: Stack's Bowers LLC, 2018

Link to:

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• 1986 2,000 pesos, World Cup, 2 oz gold
• 1987 peso, Morelos
• Coins and currency dated 1986
• return to Mexican coinage of the modern era, since 1905