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2 Centavos Pattern, Mexican Independence, Estado De Puebla
| Issuer | Mexico |
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| Year | 1890 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse description | Left-facing effigy of Liberty wearing a Phrygian cap, rendered in the classical republican style typical of Mexican coinage of the period. The bust is presented in high relief within a plain field. A circular legend surrounds the effigy, reading REPUBLICA MEXICANA along the periphery. The design reflects the iconographic conventions of Mexican independence-era commemorative and pattern coinage. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Pattern coinage from individual Mexican states in the late 19th century emerged from a brief window of administrative experimentation under Porfirio Díaz, when regional authorities occasionally commissioned trial pieces — sometimes as proposals for local circulation, sometimes as outright vanity projects for collectors and officials. Puebla's 1890 issue falls into murky territory on that question.
No corresponding regular-issue circulation coin was authorized, and surviving examples are few enough that this piece likely never advanced beyond the essai stage.