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<p>[QUOTE="xlrcable, post: 4187999, member: 41288"]Another reference for the Mexican jeton is Neil Utberg, who lived in south Texas and published books about Mexican coins in the 1960s. He thought the gold ones were still being produced at that time, but that the silver ones had been stopped years earlier when fraudsters started gold-plating them. They’re tiny, diameter 10 mm. The example I have weighs .49 g and seems to be at least half gold - I’m not equipped to do a more accurate s.g. test on an object this small.</p><p><br /></p><p>I don’t know what to think of the OP’s example: to me it looks just like the original pieces, except that those I’ve seen had a small “B” below that dot under the date, also mentioned by Utberg. The OP’s coin looks like the silver version and I’m not sure I’ve seen one before - they’re far less common. Modern knockoffs, gold with much cruder devices, flood eBay from time to time and I assume those are plated.</p><p><br /></p><p>Hard to cite a value for a “coin” which is on almost nobody’s radar - but I live near the border and for some reason these things have always interested me.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="xlrcable, post: 4187999, member: 41288"]Another reference for the Mexican jeton is Neil Utberg, who lived in south Texas and published books about Mexican coins in the 1960s. He thought the gold ones were still being produced at that time, but that the silver ones had been stopped years earlier when fraudsters started gold-plating them. They’re tiny, diameter 10 mm. The example I have weighs .49 g and seems to be at least half gold - I’m not equipped to do a more accurate s.g. test on an object this small. I don’t know what to think of the OP’s example: to me it looks just like the original pieces, except that those I’ve seen had a small “B” below that dot under the date, also mentioned by Utberg. The OP’s coin looks like the silver version and I’m not sure I’ve seen one before - they’re far less common. Modern knockoffs, gold with much cruder devices, flood eBay from time to time and I assume those are plated. Hard to cite a value for a “coin” which is on almost nobody’s radar - but I live near the border and for some reason these things have always interested me.[/QUOTE]
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