March Featured Pricing: Mexico 20 Centavos

Greysheet continues to significantly expand the number and variety of items that have regularly-updated pricing data. In United States coinage, this has includes thousands of varieties, but we also now cover worldwide paper money (under our Banknote Book brand) and we are growing our cataloging and pricing footprint for world coins as well. Print space limitations in the Monthly Greysheet preclude us from printing most of the pricing data we cover, however they are always available in our online pricing tool and app. For those dealers that are members, they are also available on CDN Exchange. The fact that some of this niche pricing does not get printed every month means almost by default it is overlooked and/or unnoticed by a percentage of our customers. We welcome feedback at pricing@greysheet.com.

This month’s featured pricing consists of Mexico twenty centavo pieces of 1905 to 1943. These year cover four distinct coin types and two different metallic compositions. While the majority of the coins are silver and are of the familiar Cap & Ray type, two dates are large copper pieces. The Type Three is a two-year type, struck only in 1920 and 1935 and made of 95% copper. There is also a one-year silver type, the 1919 reduced size coin, which is 1.475 grams lighter than the initial Type One silver coins. The undisputed key date in the 20 centavos is the 1908 with a low mintage of 350,000, while the 1912 also has a mintage of less than 1 million coins. There are some collectible die varieties within this denomination as well, including the 1907 with both a Straight and Curved 7, and the 1910 with the second 1 digit in the date engraved over an inverted 1. Another interesting fact about this series is that more than 5 million Type One silver 20 centavos dated 1907 were struck at the New Orleans branch mint, which are the only foreign coins struck at this facility.