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1 Peso Pattern
| Issuer | Casa de Moneda de México |
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| Year | 1842 |
| Type | Coin pattern |
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| Obverse description | The Mexican national arms occupy the central field, depicting a Mexican golden eagle perched upon a prickly pear cactus and devouring a rattlesnake. The design is rendered in the classical republican style. The engraver's signature L.ROVIRA. appears as a legend around or below the coat of arms. |
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| Mintage | 1842 Mº |
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Pattern coinage from the Casa de Moneda during the early Mexican Republic was largely driven by chronic instability in the mint's administrative oversight — federal, then state, then back again — as successive governments attempted to rationalize a colonial-era system never designed for a sovereign nation. The 1842 issue falls during Santa Anna's sixth grip on the presidency, a period of aggressive fiscal experimentation.
KM#Pn61 is one of several silver peso patterns from this decade that never reached authorised production, likely rejected in favor of continuing established types already familiar to commerce.