Proposal for 20c coins

Though no coins were produced in Hidalgo during the Revolution, there was a proposal to produce 20c coins to replace the unpopular 20c Estado de Hidalgo paper currency.

By July 1915 the local government had acquired a quantity of zinc and tin, which it had deposited with the Compañía de Real del Monte y Pachuca to be minted into 20c coins (with a weight of 9.5 grams). The Junta de Administración Civil asked to take over the project , with $500.000 of the coins to be used to redeem the vales and the rest to be used to purchase pumps to extract water from the company’s La Dificultad mine and conduct it to the city as drinking water^{Letter of the president of the Junta de Administración Civil, J. Hermosillo, 2 July 1915 (Periódico Oficial del Gobierno del Estado de Hidalgo, Tomo XLVIII, Núm. 36, 8 Julio 1915)}.

The governor, General Alfredo J. Machuca, agreed that the metals that the company had received from Julio Hoth should not leave the company’s warehouse without being coined or without the express agreement of the Junta de Administración Civil. The 40,933.240 kilograms would produce $861,752.40 in coins, of which $500,000 would redeem the vales and $361,752.40 used to buy three pumps^ibid..

However, no coins were produced.