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50 Centavos Pattern, Benito Juarez, Nickel
| Issuer | Casa de Moneda de México |
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| Year | 1945 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#Pn192, PL#15, PCGS#720744 |
| Obverse description | The Mexican national arms occupies the central field, depicting a Mexican golden eagle in left profile, perched upon a prickly pear cactus growing from a rocky islet, grasping a serpent in its beak and right talon. The eagle is rendered in fine detail with meticulously engraved feathering. A wreath of oak and laurel branches frames the base of the device. The circumferential legend ESTADOS UNIDOS MEXICANOS arcs along the upper periphery, with the mint mark Mo appearing in the left field. A decorative dentilated border encircles the entire design. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Mexico's postwar monetary planners spent much of the mid-1940s evaluating nickel as a practical substitute for silver in fractional coinage, driven by wartime commodity pressures that had made silver retention in circulation increasingly untenable. This 1945 pattern was part of that broader testing program at the Casa de Moneda, which produced multiple trial compositions and denominations during the period before the eventual move away from silver in Mexican coinage was formalized. The Juárez 50 centavos denomination had a long silver history, making the switch a significant metallurgical and political consideration.
Nickel was ultimately not adopted for this denomination at this time.