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1 Peso Taxco
| Issuer | State of Guerrero |
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| Year | 1915 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Mexican national arms at center, depicting an eagle displayed facing left, perched upon a cactus growing from a rocky outcrop, with a serpent clutched in its beak and talon. The arms are encircled by a wreath of oak and laurel branches. The circular legend REPUBLICA MEXICANA arcs around the upper periphery, with UN PESO along the lower periphery, all within a beaded border. The coin is struck in electrum with a gold fineness of 0.300. |
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| Reverse description | A Phrygian liberty cap radiating rays occupies the central field, flanked by sprigs of laurel and oak forming a partial wreath below. The circular legend REFORMA, LIBERTAD, JUSTICIA Y LEY arcs around the upper periphery, while the lower field carries the mint designation TAXCO GRO, the date 1915, and the gold fineness notation ORO: 0,300, all within a beaded border. |
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Guerrero's 1915 emergency coinage emerged from one of the most administratively fractured periods of the Mexican Revolution, when the state operated largely outside federal control under Zapatista-aligned forces. The Taxco issues are distinctive within the broader Guerrero series for their electrum composition — a gold-silver alloy not used elsewhere in Mexican revolutionary coinage — almost certainly reflecting the metal actually available locally rather than any deliberate archaizing nod to antiquity.
Taxco's silver mining heritage made the region a natural site for improvised minting, and the alloy composition varies measurably between surviving specimens.