Mexico 5 centavos 1902 Cn Q

The coin's story

This small 5 centavos coin in 903 thousandths silver belongs to the series struck from 1898 to 1905 by the Mexican Republic, before the 1905 reform that ended nearly four centuries of silver currency. The obverse bears the arms of Mexico: a golden eagle perched on a prickly pear cactus, devouring a serpent, with the legend and the date. On the reverse, the value is surrounded by a wreath, below the mint mark and the fineness. The type was struck at four mints: Mexico City (Mo), Culiacán (Cn), Guanajuato (Go) and Zacatecas (Zs), Culiacán and Zacatecas, the last regional mints, closed in 1905. This example bears the mark Cn Q of Culiacán and the fineness 902.7, the 1902 date was struck there in 262,000 pieces.