Pattern coinage from the Casa de Moneda in this period reflects the Mexican mint's internal debates over the 100 Peso denomination's future — the circulating 100 Peso silver series was being phased out as silver prices made the metal content economically untenable for mass production. This piece belongs to that transitional moment, likely struck to test alternative specifications or designs before the denomination shifted definitively toward base-metal and eventually cupro-nickel issues.
PL#47B attribution places it within Pradeau-Levi's specialized pattern reference, a catalog with notoriously thin documentation on surviving population numbers.
Pattern coinage from the Casa de Moneda in this period reflects the Mexican mint's internal debates over the 100 Peso denomination's future — the circulating 100 Peso silver series was being phased out as silver prices made the metal content economically untenable for mass production. This piece belongs to that transitional moment, likely struck to test alternative specifications or designs before the denomination shifted definitively toward base-metal and eventually cupro-nickel issues.
PL#47B attribution places it within Pradeau-Levi's specialized pattern reference, a catalog with notoriously thin documentation on surviving population numbers.