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1 Centavo
| Issuer | Casa de Moneda de México |
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| Year | 1905-1949 |
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| Diameter | 19.5 mm |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
| Obverse lettering | ESTADOS UNIDOS MEXICANOS (Translation: United Mexican States) |
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This type spans one of Mexico's most turbulent stretches — the Díaz dictatorship, revolution, constitutional upheaval, and the eventual stabilization of the 1930s — yet the design and specifications held essentially unchanged throughout. The Banco Nacional de México had been stripped of its note-issuing monopoly during the Revolution, and the centavo's long continuity in bronze offered a rare thread of monetary consistency while paper currency collapsed and was repeatedly reissued above it.
Production was interrupted during the worst years of the Revolution, 1914–1915, when silver hoarding and general chaos made small-denomination coinage nearly pointless in circulation.