1876 MEXICO .903 Silver "CAP & RAYS" Piece of EIGHT REALES >Nice HERMOSILLO MINT

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1876 MEXICO .903 Silver "CAP & RAYS" Piece of EIGHT REALES >Nice HERMOSILLO MINT
1876 MEXICO .903 Silver "CAP & RAYS" Piece of EIGHT REALES >Nice HERMOSILLO MINT
Description
This is a nice, crown size, silver
"Cap & Rays Eight Reales"
from Mexico. It was struck probably for the export trade at the Hermosillo mint in 1876
during the year the Presidency of Mexico changed hands.
President Benito Juárez died of a heart attack while reading a newspaper at his desk on July 18, 1872. He was succeeded in office by
Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada who had been the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Mexico. Reelected to his own term, he remained in office until he was overthrown by Porfirio Diaz in 1876, this year.
Weight: 27.05 Gram, 39 Millimeter, .903 Silver.
"Standard Catalog of World Coins"
(1801-1900)
by Krause-Mishler
.
#377.
9.
Obverse:
REPUBLICA MEXICANA • Eagle, snake in beak, standing on a cactus. This, the national symbol of Mexico, stands for the Aztec legend that foretold they were to make a great empire in a marshy area where they would see a cactus with an eagle standing on it eating a snake. The site where this actually happened is now Mexico City.
Reverse:
LIBERTAD
(incuse)
• 8 R. • H
O
• 1876 • A. • F. • 10 D
s
• 20 G
s
• The A. F. are the initials of the Hermosillo mint assayer Alejandro Acosta who served in 1876 and 1877. • Liberty Cap on Rays.
Mexico used the medieval system of Dineros and Granos to measure the fineness of their coins, Twelve Dineros designating pure Silver with each Dinero divided into 24 Granos. A coin of 10 D
s
. 20 G
s
equated to .902777 fine.
The Coin:
A very nice, gently circulated specimen, it passed through a few hands as money, and doing so earned it the normal light wear, marks and scratches. It may have been lightly cleaned. As grading is subjective, please see the pictures and judge for yourself.
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