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100 Pesos Huehuetéotl - 1 oz Silver Bullion
| Issuer | Casa de Moneda de México |
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| Year | 1992 |
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| Weight | 31.1035 g |
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| Reverse description | Within a D-shaped cartouche at right, a detailed relief depiction of Huehuetéotl, the Aztec god of fire, shown seated in a characteristic hunched posture with a brazier atop his head, rendered in a style inspired by pre-Columbian sculptural tradition. The mint date 1992 and the Mexico City mint mark Mo appear within or adjacent to the cartouche, with the deity's name HUEHUETEOTL inscribed nearby. The denomination $100 is placed prominently in the field below the cartouche outside the border. |
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| Reverse lettering | 1992 Mo HUEHUETEOTL $100 (Translation: Huehueteotl) |
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Huehuetéotl — the "Old God," one of the oldest deities in the Mesoamerican pantheon — had been venerated in central Mexico for over two millennia before the Spanish conquest effectively ended his cult. The Casa de Moneda de México revived the image for this 1992 bullion issue, part of a series drawing on pre-Columbian iconography that the mint had been developing since the mid-1980s as a direct competitor to established sovereign bullion programs like the Krugerrand and the American Eagle.
The .999 fineness was a deliberate step up from Mexico's earlier Libertad issues, which launched in 1982 at .980.