Decimal issues of the Durango mint (copper and silver)

Copper

One centavo 

KM-391.2 1c 1880 Do (Stack’s Bowers Kirk Menczer Collection, 21 October 2025, lot 71011)

Diameter 25 mm. 

Silver

Five centavos

KM-398.3 5c 1880 Do B (Ponterio Baltimore auction, 28 March 201, lot 8873)

Diameter 15 mm. 1.353 g. 0.9027 silver 

KM-398.3 1878/7 Do E/P (Stack’s Bowers Kirk Menczer Collection, 21 October 2025, lot 71108)

KM-398.3 1879 Do B (Stack’s Bowers Kirk Menczer Collection, 21 October 2025, lot 71109)

KM-398.3 1888/98 Do C (Stack’s Bowers Kirk Menczer Collection, 21 October 2025, lot 71114)

Ten centavos  

KM-403.3 1878 Do E (Stack’s Bowers Kirk Menczer Collection, 21 October 2025, lot 71278)

Diameter 17 mm. 2.707 g. 0.9027 silver  

 

KM-403.3 1880/70 Do B (Stack’s Bowers Kirk Menczer Collection, 21 October 2025, lot 71280) 

Twenty-five centavos

KM-406.3 1873 Do P (Stack’s Bowers Kirk Menczer Collection, 22 October 2025, lot 72073)

Diameter 25 mm. 6.768 g. 0.9027 silver 

KM-406.3 1888 Do C (Stack’s Bowers Kirk Menczer Collection, 22 October 2025, lot 72084)

Fifty centavos

KM-407.3 50c 1871 Do P (Stack’s Bowers Kirk Menczer Collection, 22 October 2025, lot 72225)

Diameter 30 mm.13.536 g. 0.9027 silver 

KM-407.3 1876/5 Do M (Stack’s Bowers Kirk Menczer Collection, 22 October 2025, lot 72231)

One peso

In 1869 the Balance Scale design was introduced. The obverse had the national coat of arms whilst the reverse design was the Balance Scale, and its three motifs – a sword, a two-pan scale, and a scroll with the word LEY – represented the executive, judicial and legislative branches of the Mexican government.

Although the public accepted the Balance Scale decimal coinage, the Balance Scale peso never took hold as a trade dollar. In 1873 the familiar and popular Liberty Cap and Rays 8 reales was restored for that purpose.

KM-408.2 $1 1870 Do P (Stack’s Bowers NYINC auction, 17 January 2025, lot 30127)

Diameter 30 mm.27.073 g. 0.9027 silver