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<p>[QUOTE="xlrcable, post: 3618067, member: 41288"]Neil Utberg mentioned these in <i>The Coins of the Republic of Mexico 1823 - 1905:</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><blockquote><p>This tiny gold medal was struck to honor and commemorate Emperor Maximilian. With a magnifier you will also note a small initial “B” on the medal. This is the initial of Sr. Baron who had the medal struck and is still having them struck.</p><p><br /></p><p>It was also struck in silver years ago, but so many people were having them gold plated and passing them off as silver that Sr. Baron stopped the issuing of the silver medals.</p><p><br /></p><p>The medals are solid .900 fine gold and normal retail price is $1.25 to $2.00 each. Many people who were not informed have paid much higher prices.</p><p><br /></p></blockquote><p>That was published in 1966. Since then, similar tokens seem to have been manufactured in large numbers, without the “B” and with other minor or major departures from the original design - yours appears to be one of these knockoffs. You sometimes see them listed on eBay as if they were really 1865 pesos, and selling for prices high enough to make you cringe. But for $5 you did fine.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="xlrcable, post: 3618067, member: 41288"]Neil Utberg mentioned these in [I]The Coins of the Republic of Mexico 1823 - 1905: [/I] [INDENT]This tiny gold medal was struck to honor and commemorate Emperor Maximilian. With a magnifier you will also note a small initial “B” on the medal. This is the initial of Sr. Baron who had the medal struck and is still having them struck. It was also struck in silver years ago, but so many people were having them gold plated and passing them off as silver that Sr. Baron stopped the issuing of the silver medals. The medals are solid .900 fine gold and normal retail price is $1.25 to $2.00 each. Many people who were not informed have paid much higher prices. [/INDENT] That was published in 1966. Since then, similar tokens seem to have been manufactured in large numbers, without the “B” and with other minor or major departures from the original design - yours appears to be one of these knockoffs. You sometimes see them listed on eBay as if they were really 1865 pesos, and selling for prices high enough to make you cringe. But for $5 you did fine.[/QUOTE]
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