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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Gallienus, post: 24589845, member: 42034&quot;]Well if it had been me I would&#039;ve just looked for a Mexican Revolutionary Parral Peso of Poncho Villa and forgotten the girls...</p><p><br /></p><p>Back on the .720 theme.&nbsp; The era of gradual debasement of silver in LAtin America in the 1800&#039;s was called the Moneda Feble era.&nbsp; It lasted from 1830 until around 1852 and severely damaged the economies of several nations in northern Latin America for decades.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here the target was to make coins of .666 fine but this opened the door to counterfeiting those pieces to bad pieces made from pure copper.</p><p><br /></p><p>The .720 issues in Mexico seem an attempt to keep some silver in circulation as I recall even the famous Mexican Pesos of the 1960&#039;s having .100 fine silver.</p><p><br /></p><p>I think Ecuadorian 5 sucres during the 40&#039;s were also .720 fine.&nbsp; Nearly the same date as your Mexican coin tho.&nbsp; I wonder if the alloy came from similar sources?</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1561651[/ATTACH]</p><p>-- from NGC coin facts, you can see the 0.720 on the reverse.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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