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Mexico 25 pesos 1968 MB - Olympic Games

Mexico · 1968 · 25 pesos
Common
€16.87minimum price
27,182,000coins minted
€27.89silver value · 16.2 g fine at today’s price
N3855 KM479
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The coin's story

Commemorative coin 1968 Mexico City Olympic Games Obverse: Amerindian character playing ballot with under the Olympic Games symbol. Reverse: Mexico Coat of arms: Mexican royal eagle perched on a Barbary fig tree, devouring a snake.

    Obverse

    ESTADOS UNIDOS MEXICANOS25 PESOSLEY0.720Mo

    Amerindian character playing ballot with under the Olympic Games symbol.

    LREngraved by Lorenzo Rafael

    Reverse

    JUEGOS DE LA XIX OLIMPIADA MEXICO 1968

    Mexico Coat of arms: Royal Mexican eagle, perched on a Barbary fig tree, devouring a snake.

    Engraved by

    Specifications

    • Denomination25 pesos
    • Year1968
    • Mintage27,182,000
    • MaterialSilver 0.720
    • ShapeRound
    • Diameter38 mm
    • Thickness2.5 mm
    • Weight22.5 g
    • EdgeSmooth with " INDEPENDENCIA Y LIBERTAD" Incription
    • ScriptsLatin

    Actual size

    25 pesos 38 mm 2 € 25.75 mm 1 € 23.25 mm

    Actual size compared with the 2 € and 1 € coins. Thickness: 2.5 mm.

    Composition

    Silver72 % Copper28 %

    Reference catalogues

    N3855Numista KM479Krause (Standard Catalog of World Coins)

    Same country, same period at the scale of real diameters

    1 peso1964 · 34.5 mm 25 pesos1968 · 38 mm 25 pesos1972 · 38 mm

    By the same engraver: Lorenzo Rafael 9 coins

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