United Mexican States Coins: Type Collecting

United Mexican States Coins: Type Collecting - Five Pesos

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1870-1905

Weight 8.46 grams; 0.875 fine gold.

1905-1955

Weight 4.1666 grams; 0.9 fine gold.

1947-1948

Weight 30 grams; 0.9 fine silver.

1950

Weight 27.78 grams; 0.72 fine silver.
Marks the opening of the Southern Railroad.

1951-1954

Reverse depicts Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla.

1953

Reverse marks the bicentennial of the birth of Hidalgo.

1955-1957

Weight 18.05 grams; 0.72 fine silver.
Diameter: 36 mm.
Reverse depicts Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla.

1957

Reverse marks the 100th anniversary of the constitution.

1959

Reverse marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Carranza.

1971-1978

Coins struck in copper-nickel.
Reverse depicts Vicente Guerro.

1980-1985

Reverse depicts Quetzalcoatl.

1985-1988

Coins struck in brass.

1992-1994

Coins struck in stainless steel ring, aluminum-bronze center.
Currency reform: 1 new peso = 1000 old pesos.

1997-2003

Change from "np" to just "p" (peso).

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References:
- 1994 Standard Catalog of World Coins, by Chester L. Krause and Clifford Mishler, 1993.
- 2006 Standard Catalog of World Coins, by Colin R. Bruce II, 2005.

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