Mexico 1942-M 50 centavos

from the Mountain Groan Collection

This type was struck 1919-21, 1925-25, 1937-39, 1942-45 in Mexico along with a silver peso, ten and twenty centavos. The silver ten centavos was terminated in 1935 and the silver twenty centavos was terminated in 1943. The fifty centavos and peso survived until 1945.

Recorded mintage: 800,000, a slightly better date.

Specification: 8.33 g, 0.720 fine silver, 27 mm diameter, lettered edge.

Catalog reference: KM 447.

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.
• 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.

Link to:

• 1939 50 centavos
• 1942 centavo
• 1942 5 centavos, copper-nickel
• 1942 5 centavos, Josefa Ortiz de Domínguez
• 1942 10 centavos
• 1942 20 centavos
• 1943 50 centavos
• Coins and currency dated 1942
• return to Mexican coinage of the modern era, since 1905