Thread: 1968 Mexican 25 peso Olympic

Struck to commemorate the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City, each of these 25 Peso coins features the Olympic symbol and an Aztec dancer on the obverse, while the reverse shows an Eagle design most often seen on Mexican coinage. Each is struck in .7200 fine silver and contains .5209 ounces of pure silver.


Any thoughts as to what this is worth and where i can market some of these? Inherited a few of these.

They are very common and only worth what the silver in them is.

Are you suggesting that these are only worth .5209 ounce x spot price (approx $11.00 a few minutes ago) or $5.73 ea??? Think i'll hang on to them for a while (maybe forever)! Melt them down...or something! Maybe i didn't mention that these are uncirculated in plastic bubble wraps...somehow don't think that would make a difference in your valuation.

Someone had them on Coinbug for $C20.

Sorry to sound so sceptical...probably because i was expecting much more. Need to reevaluated what i am going to do with these coins.

Thanks anyway!

Hey Logger, I just went on a couple of world coin web sites and most of them were selling this coin between $8-10. I have bought a couple of these at my local coin shop for no more than $5. Good luck.

Logger,

In another thread, you mentioned types 1,2,3 so I assumed you had all 3 types. Type 3 ( serpent tongue modified) is much rarer than type 2 ( low center ring ) than type 1 normal ( common) position of center ring. If you do decide to offer them yourself, you might group them , one of each type. Here on the border of Mexico they come into the gold/silver exchange often as bullion, some still in rolls. They are checked for varieties in the store as one of the clerks is a foreign coin collector.

Jim

I have a few still in the plastic wrappers too, I was planning to sell them on Ebay,
so I looked up the values in Krause Publications "Standard Catalog of World Coins".

I went by what the Krause catalog says about them being worth only bullion value.

Hey Jim...you are right on. This collection did have type1, 2, and 3 coins. Seems they should have some value over the type 1s. Dad was sure these coins would be of more value (he probably paid that much for them back when). Really hate to part with them for bullion value. Particularly the type 2 and 3's.

I see a lotof these on Ebay now, but they areall type 1.