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1 Peso
| Issuer | Banco de México |
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| Year | 1950 |
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| Composition | Billon (.300 silver) (Copper .500, Nickel .100, Zinc .100) |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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| Mintage | 1950 Mo - - 3,287,000 |
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Mexico's 1950 peso belongs to the billon series introduced after the silver crisis of the mid-1940s forced a dramatic reduction in precious metal content — the wartime peso had carried .720 fine silver, and postwar inflation made that formula unsustainable within a few years. The shift to .300 fine was itself a stopgap; by 1970 the peso would lose its silver content entirely.
KM#457 saw heavy circulation throughout the 1950s, and surviving examples in problem-free condition are harder to find than mintage figures suggest.