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100 Pesos Pattern, Huitzilapan, Aluminium
| Issuer | Mexican Mint (Casa de Moneda de México) |
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| Year | 1991 |
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| Diameter | 15 mm |
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| Reverse description | At the upper centre of the field, a pre-Columbian relief carving of a winged bird resting in a stylised boat or canoe is depicted, rendered in an Aztec or Mesoamerican artistic style. The place name HUITZILAPAN is inscribed in a straight legend immediately below the central device. The large denomination numeral $100 dominates the lower central field, with the Mexico City mint mark Mo and the date 1991 struck below. A reeded border frames the entire design. |
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| Mintage | 1991 Mo - - 6 |
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In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the Casa de Moneda de México ran an extensive series of pattern trials exploring lightweight aluminum alloys as candidates for the fractional and low-denomination coinage that Mexico's chronic inflation had made increasingly expensive to produce in conventional metals. The Huitzilapan pieces — named for a small municipality in Veracruz — belong to this experimental phase, most of which never advanced to circulation. Exactly why specific place names were applied to individual pattern trials remains undocumented in the mint's published records.