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20 Centavos Amecameca
| Issuer | State of Mexico |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The denomination numeral '20' dominates the upper portion of the field in large, bold characters, with a centavo symbol ('C' with a vertical stroke through it) positioned centrally below. The design is stark and functional, consistent with the emergency hand-stamped coinage produced during the Mexican Revolutionary period. The overall execution is rough, with surface irregularities typical of improvised wartime token issues. |
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Amecameca issued its own emergency coinage during the Mexican Revolution, when federal supply lines collapsed and local economies were forced to improvise. Municipal and regional authorities across the State of Mexico struck brass tokens like this one to keep small transactions functioning when silver had been hoarded or simply vanished from circulation. The KM#682 attribution places this firmly within the broad taxonomy of Revolutionary-era necessity pieces, a category spanning hundreds of local issuers between roughly 1913 and 1917.