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Decimal issues of the Hermosillo mint (gold)

One peso

Diameter 15 mm.1.692 g. 0.8750 gold 

Date Asssayer Recorded
Mintage
Comment
1874 R    
1875 R    
1876 F    
1888 G/M    

 

KM 410.4 1876KM 410.4 1876 reverse
KM-410.4 1876 (Stack’s-Bowers NYINC auction, 12 January 2019, lot 41226)

Second year of a three year type. Interestingly, close inspection yields an obverse die near failure, exhibiting numerous die cracks that begin at vary points on the edges and run into the eagle. 

KM 410.4KM 410.4 reverse
KM-410.4 $1 1888 HoG (Stack’s-Bowers NYINC auction, 12 January 2019, lot 41227)

2½ pesos 

KM 411.4 1888
KM-411.4 $2.50 1888 Ho G (Morton & Eden sale 104, lot 640)

Diameter 18 mm. 4.230 g. 0.8750 gold 

Date Asssayer Recorded
Mintage
Comment
1874 R    
1888 G    

 

Five pesos 

 KM 412.5 1877KM 412.5 1877 reverse
KM-412.5 $5 1877 Ho A (Stack’s Bowers auction, February 2024, lot 73389)

Diameter 22 mm. 8.460 g. 0.8750 gold 

Date Asssayer Recorded
Mintage
Comment
1874 R    
1877 R    
1877 A    
1888 G    

 

Ten pesos 

 KM 413 6 1881KM 413 6 1881 reverse
KM-413.6 $10 1881 Ho A (Stack’s Bowers Louis E. Eliasberg, Sr. Collection, 15 April 2005, lot 3388)

Diameter 27 mm. 16.920 g. 0.8750 gold 

Date Asssayer Recorded
Mintage
Comment
1874 R    
1876 R    
1878 A    
1880 A    
1881 A    

 

Twenty pesos 

KM 414.5 1874KM 414.5 1874 reverse
KM-414.5 $10 1874 Ho R (Stack’s-Bowers Chicago ANA auction, 13 August 2011, lot 21297)

Diameter 27 mm. 16.920 g. 0.8750 gold 

Date Asssayer Recorded
Mintage
Comment
1874 R    
1875 R    
1876 F    
1888 G