The Mexico City mint

Mexico City is the nation 's capital and home to the íirsl mint established in the New World in 1536. The first silver issue of the Republic of Mexico was the Profile or Hook-neck Eagle Cap and Rays 8 Reales minted in Mexico City in 1823. No other mint issued Republican 8 Reales in 1823. The 8 Reales series was interrupted twice from 1823 until its conclusion in 1897. The first interruption was during the Maximilian era, when the mint was under the control of the Imperial forces from 7 June, 1863 to 20 June 1867. The second was for the issuance of the Balance Scale Peso 1869 - 1873.

Mínt owners or lessees and their tenures

from	to
1824	13 April 1847	Government of the Republic of Mexico
13 April 1847	6 April 1857	Palamade de la Roche y Cia.^{with the association of the Mackintosh Mint Company: however, in January 1850 Mackintosh sold his shares and co-tenant rights to Juan Antonio Béistegui.}
6 April 1857	1858	Bellange y Temple
1858	1 January 1869	Juan Temple
1 January 1869	31 March 1872	Government of the Republic of Mexico
1 April 1872	31 January 1893	Francisca Temple de Ajuria
31 January 1893	1905	Government of the Republic of Mexico

Assayers and their tenures (as evidence by coinage)

Initial	Name	Begins on	Ends on
JM	José Garcia Anzalda and Manuel Ruiz Tejada	1823^{since 1822 under Iturbide}	1832
MJ	Manuel Ruiz Tejada and Jose Carda Anzaldo	1833
ML	Manuel Ruiz Tejada and Luis Velazquez de la Cadena	1833	1836
		1837
		1838	1842
MF	Manuel Ruiz Tejada and Francisco Lelo de Larrea	1836
MF	Manuel Ruiz Tejada and Francisco Lelo de Larrea	1844	1847
MM	unknown	1837	1838
MM	unknown	1842	1843
MF	unknown	1844	1847
RC	unknown	1847
GC	Joaquín González and Sebastían Camacho	1848	1855
GF	unknown	1855	1857
FH	unknown and Francisco Hermosa Francisco Hermosa was born in Mexico City on 13 January 1829. He entered the Colegio de Mineria in 1843 and graduated as an Ensayador-Apartador de Metales on 5 September 1849. He then worked in the mining areas of Guanajuato, El Oro and Tlalpujahua and in 1857 produced a small work entitled Manual de Laboreo de Minas y Beneficio de metals, dispuestopara uso de los mineros y azogueros de la República Mexicana. He was appointed ensayador at the beginning of May 1857 and served for thirty-three years, retiring on 5 December 1889. He died on 14 May 1891^{El Tiempo, 26 May 1891}.	1858	1860
TH	unknown and Francisco Hermosa	1860	1861
TH	unknown and Francisco Hermosa	1863
CH	unknown and Francisco Hermosa	1863	1869
PH	unknown and Francisco Hermosa	1868
MH	Antonio Mucharras and Francisco Hermosa	1873	1874
MH	Antonio Mucharras and Francisco Hermosa	1877	1890
BH	Mariano Barcena and Francisco Hermosa	1874	1876
AM	Adolfo Medina	1890	1908
AB	Antonio de la Barrera	1895	1896