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20 Centavos Type 3 National Emblem
| Issuer | Mexican Mint (Casa de Moneda de México) |
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| Year | 1971-1974 |
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| Value | 20 Centavos (0.20 MXP) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | 2 LIBERTAD 0 Mo TEOTIHUACÁN CENTAVOS 1971 (Translation: Liberty Mo Teotihuacán 20 Cents 1971) |
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This type was introduced as part of a broader rationalization of Mexico's subsidiary coinage following the peso's prolonged weakness through the late 1960s. The brass composition was a deliberate cost-containment measure — earlier 20 centavos pieces had carried a higher silver content, and by this point even that pretense had been abandoned entirely. Heavy circulation across a country where small-denomination coins did real transactional work means surviving examples in problem-free condition are less common than mintage figures alone suggest.
The 1974 date closes out the type before the denomination was redesigned again, a remarkably short production window for a workhorse coin.