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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;stldanceartist, post: 2527940, member: 13307&quot;]Good morning everyone!</p><p><br /></p><p>Hope you all are enjoying your Sunday so far.</p><p><br /></p><p>Just purchased a roll of BU Mexican 1 Peso coins yesterday (thought it was all 1977, but apparently there was also one 1979 in there), and as I&#039;m going through it today.&nbsp; I see that there are some varieties of the thin/thick date.&nbsp; Found one that&#039;s definitely the 1977 thin date (noticeably different than the others) and the 1979 is also a thin date.</p><p><br /></p><p>My question:&nbsp; What is the relative scarcity of the variety?&nbsp; For the 1977, NGC Price Guide lists the Thin @ $16.50 in MS63 and the Thick @ $1.25 in MS63, so it appears that there is a pretty decent premium on the variety.&nbsp; (And, of course, the one thin date that I have was the ugliest coin in the roll of mostly very lovely coins.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Here are photos of the two varieties:</p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center"><b>Mexico - 1977 (Thin Date) 1 Peso</b></p> <p style="text-align: center"><b><br /></b></p> <p style="text-align: center"><b>[ATTACH=full]539971[/ATTACH] </b></p> <p style="text-align: center"><b><br /></b></p> <p style="text-align: center"><b>Mexico - 1977 (Thick Date) 1 Peso</b></p> <p style="text-align: center">(Note: almost all of the coins in this roll exhibit the same type of improper alloy mix striations in color.&nbsp; A few of them have a nice die crack on the back of the obverse bust, but I didn&#039;t luck out and get one that turned into a die break/cud...)</p> <p style="text-align: center"><b><br /></b></p> <p style="text-align: center"><b>[ATTACH=full]539970[/ATTACH] </b></p><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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