Mexico 5 pesos 1959 Mo - Centenary of Carranza's birth

The coin's story

This 5 pesos coin in 720 thousandths silver celebrates the centenary of the birth of Venustiano Carranza, born on 29 December 1859 in Cuatro Ciénegas, Coahuila. After the overthrow of Madero by Victoriano Huerta in 1913, Carranza took up arms in the name of constitutional legality and became the leader of the Constitutionalist movement. He was the principal architect of the constitution promulgated on 5 February 1917 in Querétaro. The reverse bears his portrait and the obverse the arms of Mexico, both sides are the work of Manuel Luna Negrete. The coin was struck at the Mexico City Mint in 1,000,000 pieces.