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20 Centavos
| Issuer | Casa de Moneda de México |
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| Year | 1920-1943 |
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| Value | 20 Centavos (0.20 MXP) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Mintage | 1920 M - - 3,710,000 1921 M - - 6,160,000 1925 M - - 1,450,000 1926 M - Overdate 1926/5 exist. - 1,465,000 1927 M - - 1,405,000 1928 M - - 3,630,000 1930 M - - 1,000,000 1933 M - Overdate 1933/3 exist. - 2,500,000 1934 M - - 2,500,000 1935 M - - 2,460,000 1937 M - - 10,000,000 1939 M - - 8,800,000 1940 M - - 3,000,000 1941 M - - 5,740,000 1942 M - - 12,460,000 1943 M - - 3,955,000 |
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This type spans a period when Mexico's silver coinage was under sustained pressure from rising bullion values. The .720 fineness was itself a compromise — adopted in 1905 as part of the Limantour monetary reform that abolished the old pure-silver standard and pegged the peso to gold, deliberately reducing silver content in fractional coins to prevent them from being melted at a profit. It worked, until it didn't: by the late 1930s even .720 silver was becoming expensive to strike in small denominations, and the series was quietly discontinued after 1943.