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Hi Chuck
Congratulations on your 50th post !!
If your into Mexican coins, I can help !! In fact email me an address and I will send some to you ,, My gift !! I live down here about 80 miles from the mexican border and I have access to many mexican coins.
The Diez 10 New peso is a pretty coin ,,
Rick
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Thanks alot man. I very rarely encounter a Mexican coin here in WV. I honestly dont remember where I got these from as it has been a few years. but the 10 pesos is 1995 and its the better of the 2 in eye appeal and grade. the main thing I come across in circulation is Canadian.
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I've never seen one of those 10 new pesos coins (KM# 553), or its companion the N$20 (KM 561); there's an interesting story there. IIRC, the Mexicans attempted to re-introduce silver into circulating coinage (they've apparently got a powerful silver-mining lobby?). The central core of these coins is sterling silver.
It was a brief experiment (1992-1995) and the replacement coins (KM# 636 and 637, issued from 2000) have cupronickel cores. Still, they're the only circulating silver coins struck anywhere since the early 1970's.
Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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thanks for the info I recently found out about the silver center. I didnt know percentage or all the years it was done. its nice to hear there are other people here who like Mexican coins and know some about them :-)
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What happened to that second coin?
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Wow lim nice errors.
have those errors on an Australian coin and you will have me licking my chops.
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Originally posted by grendelfreak
What happened to that second coin?
The second coin is a "Double strike error"'...  |
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Originally posted by KLD
Wow lim nice errors.
have those errors on an Australian coin and you will have me licking my chops.
Tell me about it Lars.....if it is Australian, I will not be able to afford it.... |
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Those are some nice errors you got there. Exactly what is wrong with the first coin? I'm not very knowledgable on errors lol.it looks like there was another coin layin on this coin when it got struck. very interesting
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The first coin is a partial brockage. A brockage is when a coin appears to have the same design on both sides, one of which is a "mirrored" image. This minting error occurs when a strucked coin is not ejected out and becomes the defacto die in striking the next coin blank leaving behind the mirrored incussed image. Full brockages are interesting error coins. Have a look at this example of a full obverse brockage...   Edited by lim118
03/07/2006 5:05 pm
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thats awesome!!! Id love to find something like that
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nice collection of coins!:) I like your 3rd coin demon boy :)
and the second error coin looks like a solar eclipse lol.
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Lim I really like the second (1980) Mexican error. I have a few Mexican coins but for some reason or another I am just not into their coinage. Can't say the same for our neighbor to the north! Canada does some OUTSTANDING designs and do love their wildlife coins.
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