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Decimal issues of the Guanajuato mint

Copper

One centavo 

Diameter 25 mm. 

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Silver

Five centavos

Diameter 15 mm. 1.353 g. 0.9027 silver 

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Ten centavos 

Diameter 17 mm. 2.707 g. 0.9027 silver 

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Twenty-five centavos

Diameter 25 mm. 6.768 g. 0.9027 silver 

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Fifty centavos

Diameter 30 mm.13.536 g. 0.9027 silver 

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One peso

Diameter 37 mm. 27.073 g. 0.9027 silver 

Date Asssayer Recorded
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1871/0 S    
1871/3 S    
1871 S    
1872 S    
1873/2 S    
1873 S    
1873 S/M   GO/MO

 

Diameter 39 mm. 27.073 g. 0.9027 silver 

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 1898 RS    
1898 RS   GO/MO
1899 RS    
1900 RS    

 

Gold

One peso

Diameter 15 mm.1.692 g. 0.8750 gold 

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2½ pesos 

Diameter 18 mm. 4.230 g. 0.8750 gold 

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KM 411.3KM 411.3 reverse
KM-411.3 $2½ 1888 Go over Mo (Briggs & Bustos auction VIII, April 2024, lot 382)

Last date struck at the Guanajuato mint in this rare denomination, the key piece with a mintage of only 110 pieces reported. Elusive as are all the 1888 issues, a very interesting fact is that all of these were struck with a reverse with a re-engraved Go/Mo mint mark, none of them show any trace of an over-assayer. 

Five pesos 

Diameter 22 mm. 8.460 g. 0.8750 gold 

Date Asssayer Recorded
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 1871 S    
1887 R    
1888 R    
1893 R    

 

Ten pesos 

Diameter 27 mm. 16.920 g. 0.8750 gold 

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1872  S    
1887 R    
1888 R    

 

Twenty pesos

Diameter 34 mm. 33.840 g. 0.8750 gold 

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