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2 Escudos Pattern, Brass

Issuer Mexico
Year 1832
Type Coin pattern
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Obverse script Latin
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Mint Durango Mint
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Additional information

This is a pattern piece, struck not for circulation but to test a proposed denomination or alloy — in this case, brass as a substitute for gold at a moment when the young Mexican republic was still rationalizing its inherited colonial coinage system. Whether it reached the approval stage or was simply a mint trial is unrecorded. The 1832 date places it squarely within the early Federal Republic period, when multiple mints were operating with inconsistent standards and the central government had limited authority over provincial striking.

KM#Pn33 is among a cluster of pattern entries from this period with thin documentation — survival numbers are unknown.

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