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2 Escudos Pattern, Brass
| Issuer | Mexico |
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| Year | 1832 |
| Type | Coin pattern |
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| Obverse description | The Mexican national coat of arms occupies the central field, depicting a Mexican golden eagle with wings displayed and elevated, perched on a nopal cactus growing from a rocky outcrop amid water, devouring a serpent. The design is flanked at the lower left and right by an oak branch and an olive branch respectively, tied at the base. The circumferential legend REPUBLICA MEXICANA arcs across the upper field, with a beaded border encircling the entire design. |
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| Reverse lettering | LA LIBERTAD EN LA LEY (Translation: Liberty in the law.) |
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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.