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100 Pesos Guerrero - Gold and Silver Proof Issue
| Issuer | Banco de México |
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| Year | 2006 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse description | The obverse features the Mexican national coat of arms in the gold centre, depicting an eagle perched upon a cactus and grasping a serpent in its beak and talons, rendered in high-relief proof finish. The eagle is surrounded by an ornate wreath of laurel and oak branches. The encircling silver ring bears the national legend 'ESTADOS UNIDOS MEXICANOS' in raised Latin characters along the upper periphery. The contrasting gold and silver surfaces create a striking bimetallic visual effect characteristic of this proof series. |
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| Obverse lettering | ESTADOS UNIDOS MEXICANOS (Translation: United States of Mexico) |
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This piece belongs to México's long-running "Onza de Plata con Centro de Oro" bimetallic proof program, which Banco de México launched to satisfy both bullion investors and collector markets simultaneously — a rare case where a central bank managed to serve two audiences without compromising either product. The Guerrero reverso draws from the pre-Columbian Mezcala culture, whose stone figures were being actively looted from Guerrero state sites throughout the 1990s and early 2000s, giving the series an uncomfortable archaeological urgency at the time of issue.