20 Pesos Mexico and United States Relations

Issued as part of Banco de México's ongoing bimetallic commemorative 20 Pesos program, this piece marks the bilateral relationship between Mexico and the United States — a pairing that has generated political friction at nearly every decade since the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ceded roughly half of Mexico's territory to its northern neighbor. The commemorative series itself dates to 1993, timed to coincide with NAFTA negotiations.

KM# 770 is a recent addition to a long-running catalog of types in this format, most of which see limited circulation and migrate quickly into collector holdings.