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5 Centavos Tenancingo
| Issuer | State of Mexico |
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| Year | 1915 |
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| Value | 5 Centavos (0.05) |
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| Obverse description | Mexican national arms depicted in low relief at center, showing an eagle perched atop a cactus, wings spread, grasping a serpent in its beak, with a wreath of laurel and oak branches at the base. The legend REPUBLICA MEXICANA curves along the upper periphery in Latin script. The design is characteristic of the emergency coinage produced during the Mexican Revolution, with somewhat crude engraving typical of locally issued revolutionary issues. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Tenancingo was one of several municipalities in the State of Mexico authorized to produce emergency copper coinage during the chaotic peak of the Mexican Revolution, when federal currency had collapsed in credibility and local commerce demanded something — anything — to function. These municipal issues were struck under improvised conditions, which accounts for the considerable variation in planchet quality and strike consistency that collectors encounter across surviving examples.
KM#689 is among the more localized of the 1915 revolutionary issues, with a production run small enough that even circulated survivors are genuinely scarce.