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1 Peso
| Issuer | Mexican Mint (Casa de Moneda de México) |
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| Year | 1918-1919 |
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| Orientation | Coin alignment ↑↓ |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Mintage | 1918 M - Over-date 1918/7 exists. - 3,050,000 1919 M - - 6,151,000 |
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Mexico's silver coinage was severely disrupted during the Revolution, and the 1918–1919 peso issues emerged from a monetary system still struggling to reassert federal authority after years of competing rebel currencies, local scrip, and outright coin hoarding. The Carranza government had been burning through political capital and hard metal alike, and these pieces represent the mint's effort to restore confidence in national coinage as the worst of the fighting subsided.
The .800 fineness was a deliberate reduction from earlier purity standards, reflecting wartime silver economics rather than any lapse in production standards.