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10 Pesos Tlaxcala - Silver Proof Issue
| Issuer | Casa de Moneda de México |
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| Year | 2003 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse description | The Mexican national arms occupy the central field, depicting a Mexican golden eagle perched on a prickly pear cactus growing from a rock in a lake, grasping and devouring a serpent in its beak and talons, its wings partially spread. The device is flanked by an oak branch to the left and a laurel branch to the right, tied at the base with a ribbon. The curved legend ESTADOS UNIDOS MEXICANOS arcs along the upper periphery in bold Latin lettering against a deeply mirrored proof field. |
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| Obverse lettering | ESTADOS UNIDOS MEXICANOS (Translation: United States of Mexico) |
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Part of Mexico's long-running "Estados de la República Mexicana" series, which committed the Casa de Moneda to producing a proof silver issue for each of the country's 31 states plus the Federal District. Tlaxcala — the smallest state by area — is historically notable as the Tlaxcalan confederation's alliance with Hernán Cortés proved decisive in the fall of Tenochtitlán in 1521, a political calculation that haunts Mexican national identity to this day.
KM#682 is the Tlaxcala assignment within that sequence, struck to the .999 fineness the series adopted from the outset rather than the .925 used in earlier Mexican commemorative programs.