1 Peso Pattern

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.