2 Centavos Pattern, Mexican Independence, Estado De Puebla

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.