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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;jlblonde, post: 1536492, member: 32000&quot;]<b>5 Centavos</b></p><p><br /></p><p>The Mexican dictator, Porfilio Diaz, was desperate for international investment. He began modernizing Mexico to make it both centralized and to pull it out of the backwater nation it had fallen into after the assassination of Emperor Maximillian. Also, Mexico had been seen as a rouge state that executed high officials and even aristocratic noble men. Making it a pariah in the eyes of North American and European nations. As Mexico&#039;s peso, which had been the international standard trade coin since the 16th century, had began to be supplanted by other foreign trade dollars, Diaz needed foreign investment to keep his modernization effort going. The coin below shows just one attempt at putting Mexico&#039;s coinage on pare with other nations in both appearance and content. It was short lived.</p><p><br /></p><p>Mexico - 5 Centavos - </p><p>1882 - KM #399 - CN</p><p>[ATTACH]204262.vB[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</p><p><br /></p><p>Due to the nickel 5c&#039;s failure in both design and content and as the price of silver began to stabilize an attempt was made at re-introducing the silver 5c coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is the &quot;standing eagle&quot; type design which was re-introduced in 1869 and ended in 1881.</p><p><br /></p><p>Mexico - 5 Centavos - </p><p>1897 CnM - KM #398.2 - </p><p>1.3530g, .09030ag, 0.0392oz</p><p>[ATTACH]204263.vB[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</p><p><br /></p><p>The re-styled &quot;standing eagle&quot; was introduced in 1898.</p><p><br /></p><p>Mexico - 5 Centavos - </p><p>1903 CnV - KM #400 - </p><p>1.3530g, .09030ag, 0.0392oz</p><p>[ATTACH]204264.vB[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</p><p><br /></p><p>The Mexico City mint again attempted to re-introduce a nickel 5c coin. This coin is of pure nickel content. The flan/planchets were supplied by the Scovill Manufacturing Company and Coe Brass Manufacturing Company, both in the USA. The Krupp company of Austria provided the flan/planchets for the 1913 and 1914 issues. A large percentage of the 1906 and 1911 along with all the 1907 through 1910 were minted at the Birmingham Mint in England. The rest were minted at the Mexico City mint. Both are identical and have the Mexico City mint mark &quot;M&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>Mexico - 5 Centavos - </p><p>1911 M - KM #421 - </p><p>Nickel, 5.0g, 20mm - Narrow Date</p><p>[ATTACH]204265.vB[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</p><p><br /></p><p>Personally, this is the most handsomest of the 5c designs. Introduced in 1914 and finally demonetized in 1936 and withdrawn from circulation in 1937.</p><p><br /></p><p>Mexico - 5 Centavos - </p><p>1929 Mo - KM #422 - </p><p>Bronze, 9.0g, 28mm</p><p>[ATTACH]204268.vB[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>True content: .950 copper, .025 tin, .025 zinc.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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