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100 Pesos Counterstamped Coin
| Issuer | Casa de Moneda de México |
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| Year | 2012 |
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| Value | 100 Pesos |
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| Obverse lettering | ESTADOS UNIDOS MEXICANOS (Translation: United Mexican States) |
| Reverse description | The silver centre field features a faithful high-relief reproduction of the obverse of a Far East counterstamped 8 Reales coin struck at the Mexico City Mint in 1804, showing the laureate bust of King Charles IV with surrounding legend CAROLUS IIII and the date 1804 visible in the design. The aluminium bronze outer ring carries the legend HERENCIA NUMISMATICA DE MEXICO arcing along the upper portion, with the mint mark Mo at the lower left, the year 2012 at the lower right, and the denomination $100 displayed at the bottom of the ring. |
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Casa de Moneda de México issued this bimetallic series partly as a showcase of domestic minting capability — the .925 silver core seated within an aluminium bronze ring demanded precise tolerances that few mints could reliably achieve at this diameter. The counterstamp program itself drew on a long Mexican tradition of revalidating coinage through official punching, a practice that dates to colonial-era necessity and was periodically revived during monetary disruptions across the 19th and early 20th centuries.
KM#963 sits in a run of commemorative-format pieces where the counterstamp functions as the primary issuing device rather than an afterthought applied to existing circulation stock.