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100 Pesos Pillar coin

Emittent Banco de México
Jahr 2011
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Material Bimetallic: silver (.925) centre in aluminium bronze ring
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Reversbeschreibung The silver centre depicts a high-relief incuse reproduction of a colonial-era Mexican Pillar dollar (macuquina de columnario), showing the two crowned globes flanked by the Pillars of Hercules with the legend VTRAQUE VNUM and the date 1732 visible on the archetype coin. The aluminium bronze outer ring bears the arc legend HERENCIA NUMISMÁTICA DE MÉXICO along the upper portion, the Mo mint mark and the date 2011 flanking the centre field, and the denomination $100 prominently displayed in the lower exergue. A decorative border of small raised dots runs along the inner edge of the ring on both sides.
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Reverslegende HERENCIA NUMISMATICA DE MEXICO Mo 2011 $100
(Translation: Numismatic Heritage of Mexico.)
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This piece belongs to the long-running Mexican Numismatic Heritage bimetallic series, which Banco de México launched in 2000 to commemorate pre-Columbian and colonial monetary history. The "Pillar" in the name refers to the famous Pillar dollar — the milled eight-real coin struck at New World mints from 1732 onward, whose design became so widely trusted in global trade that it circulated legally in the United States until 1857. Spanish colonial milled coinage from Mexico City was, at certain points in the 18th century, effectively the world's reserve currency.

The .925 silver centre is a deliberate nod to the fineness of the original colonial issues it commemorates.