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Decimal issues of the Culiacán mint

Copper

One centavo 

Diameter 25 mm. 

Date Recorded
Mintage		 Comment
1874 266,000  
1875 153,000  
1875/4  
1876 154,000  
1877 993,000  
1877/6  
1880 142,000  
1881 167,000  
1897 300,000 small N in mintmark, milled edge
1897 large N in mintmark, milled edge

 

Diameter 20 mm. 

Date Recorded
Mintage		 Comment
1901   REPUBLICA MEXICANA (wide)
1902   REPUBLICA MEXICANA (wide) 
1903   REPUBLICA MEXICANA (wide) 
1903   REPUBLICAMEXICANA (close) 
1903/4   REPUBLICAMEXICANA (close)  
1905   REPUBLICAMEXICANA (close)  

 

Silver

Five centavos

KM 398.2 1871KM 398.2 1871 reverse
KM-398.2 5c 1871 Cn P (Stack’s Bowers Kirk Menczer Collection, 21 October 2025, lot 71088)

Diameter 15 mm. 1.353 g. 0.9027 silver 

Date Asssayer Recorded
Mintage		 Comment
1871 P    
1873 P 4.992  
1874 P    
1875 P    
1876 P    
1886 M 10,000  
1887 M 10,000  
1888 M 119,000  
1889 M 66.000  
1890/80 M    
1890 M 180,000  
1890/9 M  
1890 D assayer error
1891 M 87,000  
1894 M 24,000  
1896 M 16,000  
1897 M 223,000  

  

KM 400 1899KM 400 1899 reverse
KM-400 5c 1899 Cn M (Stack’s Bowers Kirk Menczer Collection, 21 October 2025, lot 71100)

Date Asssayer Recorded
Mintage		 Comment
1898 M    
1899 M    
1899 Q    
1900 Q    oval Q, narrow C
1900 Q    oval Q, wide C
1900 Q    round Q, single tail
1900/800 Q   illustrated below
1901 Q    
1902 Q    heavy serifs. narrow C
1902 Q    light serifs, wide C
1903 Q    
1903/1 Q    
1903/2 Q   illustrated below
1903 V    
1903/1898 V    
1904 H    
1904 H   0/9

 

KM 400 1900 1800KM 400 1900 1800 reverse
KM-400 5c 1900/800 Cn Q (Stack’s Bowers Kirk Menczer Collection, 21 October 2025, lot 71102)

Variety with narrow "C" and oval "Q".

KM 400 1903 2KM 400 1903 2 reverse
KM-400 5c 1903/2 Cn Q (Stack’s Bowers Kirk Menczer Collection, 21 October 2025, lot 71104) 

Ten centavos 

KM 403.2 1871KM 403.2 1871 reverse
KM-403.2 10c 1871 Cn P (Ponterio Baltimore auction. 28 March 2011, lot 8922)

Diameter 17 mm. 2.707 g. 0.9027 silver 

Date Asssayer Recorded
Mintage		 Comment
1871 P    
1873 P 8,732  
1881 D 9,440  
1882 D 12,000  
1885 M 18,000 mule, $2.50 reverse (illustrated below)
1886 M 13,000 mule, $2.50 reverse
1887 M 11,000  
1888 M 56,000  
1889 M 42,000  
1890 M 132,000  
1891 M 84,000  
1892/1 M 37,000  
1892 M  
1894 M 43,000  
1895 M 23,000  
1896 M 121,000  

  

KM 403.2 1885 muleKM 403.2 1885 mule reverse
KM-403.2 10c 1885 Cn M (Stack’s Bowers Kirk Menczer Collection, 21 October 2025, lot 71266)

KM 404 1898KM 404 1898 reverse
KM-404 10c 1898 Cn M (Stack’s Bowers Kirk Menczer Collection, 21 October 2025, lot 71275)

Date Asssayer Recorded
Mintage		 Comment
1898 M 8,870  
1899 Q 80,000  oval Q, double tail
1899 Q  round Q, single tail
1900 Q 180,000  
1901 Q 235,000  
1902 Q 186,000  
1903 Q 256,000  
1903 V    
1904 H 307,000  

 

Twenty centavos 

KM 405 1898KM 405 1898 reverse
KM-405 20c 1898 Cn M (Stack’s Bowers Kirk Menczer Collection, 22 October 2025, lot 72001)

Diameter 22 mm. 5.415 g. 0.9027 silver 

Date Asssayer Recorded
Mintage		 Comment
1898 M 114,000  
1899 M 44,000  
1899 Q  
1900 Q 68,000  
1901 Q 185,000  
1902/802 Q 98,000  very rare overdate
1902 Q  
1903 Q 93,000  
1904/3 H 258,000  
1904 H  

 

KM 405 1902 802 reverseKM 405 1902 802
KM-405 1902/802 (Stack’s-Bowers Kirk Menczer Collection, 22 October 2025, lot 72007)

Twenty-five centavos 

KM 406.2 1871KM 406.2 1871 reverse
KM-406.2 25c 1871 Cn P (Stack’s Bowers Kirk Menczer Collection, 22 October 2025, lot 72052)

Diameter 25 mm. 6.768 g. 0.9027 silver 

Date Asssayer Recorded
Mintage		 Comment
1871 P    
1872 P 2,780  
1873 P 20,000  
1874 P    
1875 P    
1876 P    
1878 D   CN/GO
1978 D    
1879 D    
1880 D    
1881/0 D 18,000 illustrated below
1882 D    
1882 M    
1883 M 15,000  
1884 M    
1885/4 M 19,000 illustrated below
1886 M 22,000  
1887 M 32,000  
1888 M 86,000  
1888 M   Cn/Mo
1889 M 50,000  
1890 M   9/8
1890 M 91,000  
1892 M 16,000  
1892/0 M illustrated below

 

KM 406.2 1881 0KM 406.2 1881 0 reverse
KM-406.2 25c 1881/0 Cn D (Stack’s Bowers Kirk Menczer Collection, 22 October 2025, lot 72060)

Assayer "D" is filled in.

KM 406.2 1885 4KM 406.2 1885 4 reverse
KM-406.2 25c 1885/4 Cn M (Stack’s Bowers Kirk Menczer Collection, 22 October 2025, lot 72066)

KM 406.2 1892 0KM 406.2 1892 0 reverse
KM-406.2 25c 1892/0 Cn M (Ponterio Baltimore auction. 28 March 2011, lot 9068)

Fifty centavos 

KM 407.2 1880KM 407.2 1880 reverse
KM-407.2 50c 1880 Cn D (Stack’s Bowers Kirk Menczer Collection, 22 October 2025, lot 72219)

Diameter 30 mm. 13.536 g. 0.9027 silver 

Date Asssayer Recorded
Mintage		 Comment
1871 P    
1873 P    
1874 P    
1875 P    
1876 P    
1877/6 G    
1877 G    
1878 G 18,000  
1878 D CN/Mo
1978 D  
1879 D    
1879 D/G    
1880/8 D    
1880 D    
1881/0 D 188,000  
1881 D  
1881 G  
1882 D    
1882 G    
1883 D 19,000  
1885/3 M/G 9,254  
1886 M 7,030  
1887 M 76,000  
1888 M    
1892 M 8,200  

 

KM 407.2 1877 6KM 407.2 1877 6 reverse
KM-407.2 50c 1877/6 Cn G (Stack’s Bowers Kirk Menczer Collection, 22 October 2025, lot 72215)

KM 407.2 1878 CnMoKM 407.2 1878 CnMo reverse
KM-407.2 50c 1878 Cn/Mo D (Stack’s Bowers Kirk Menczer Collection, 22 October 2025, lot 72217) 

One peso

Diameter 37 mm. 27.073 g. 0.9027 silver 

Date Asssayer Recorded
Mintage		 Comment
1870 E    
1871 P 478,000  
1871/11 P  
1872 P 209,000  
1873 P 527,000 narrow date
1873 P wide date

  

Date Asssayer Recorded
Mintage		 Comment
1898 AM    
1898 AM   CN/Mo 
1899 AM    
1899 JQ    
1900 JQ    
1901 JQ    
1902 JQ    
1903 FV    
1904 MH    
1904 RP    
1904 RP