Decimal issues of the Guadalajara mint
Copper
One centavo
KM-391.3 1c 1889 Ga/Mo (Stack’s Bowers Kirk Menczer Collection. 21 October 2025, lot 71019)
Diameter 25 mm.
| Date | Recorded Mintage |
Comment |
| 1872 | 263,000 | |
| 1873 | 333,000 | |
| 1874 | 76,000 | |
| 1875 | ||
| 1876 | 303,000 | |
| 1877 | 108,000 | |
| 1878 | 543,000 | |
| 1881 | 975,000 | |
| 1881/71 | illustrated below | |
| 1889 | ||
| 1890 |
KM-391.3 1c 1881/71 Ga (Stack’s Bowers Kirk Menczer Collection. 21 October 2025, lot 71018)
Silver
Five centavos
KM-398.4 5c 1877 Ga A (Stack’s Bowers Kirk Menczer Collection, 21 October 2025, lot 71117)
Diameter 15 mm. 1.353 g. 0.9027 silver
| Date | Asssayer | Recorded Mintage |
Comment |
| 1877 | A | ||
| 1881 | S | ||
| 1886 | S | ||
| 1888 | S | large GA | |
| 1888 | S | small GA | |
| 1889 | S | ||
| 1890 | S | ||
| 1891 | S | ||
| 1892 | S | ||
| 1893 | S |
Ten centavos
KM-403.4 10c 1871 Ga C (Stack’s Bowers Kirk Menczer Collection, 21 October 2025, lot 71294)
Diameter 17 mm. 2.707 g. 0.9027 silver
| Date | Asssayer | Recorded Mintage |
Comment |
| 1871 | C | ||
| 1873 | C | ||
| 1873/1 | C | illustrated below | |
| 1874 | C | ||
| 1877 | A | ||
| 1881 | A | ||
| 1881 | S | ||
| 1883 | B | ||
| 1883/1 | B | illustrated below | |
| 1884 | H | ||
| 1884 | B/S | ||
| 1884 | B | ||
| 1885 | H | ||
| 1886 | S | ||
| 1887 | S | ||
| 1888 | S | ||
| 1888 | S | GA, S over HO, G | |
| 1889 | S | ||
| 1890 | S | ||
| 1891 | S | ||
| 1892 | S | ||
| 1893 | S | ||
| 1894 | S | ||
| 1895 | S |
KM-403.4 10c 1873/1 Ga C (Stack’s Bowers Kirk Menczer Collection, 21 October 2025, lot 71295)
KM-403.4 10c 1883/1 Ga B (Stack’s Bowers Kirk Menczer Collection, 21 October 2025, lot 71299)
Twenty-five centavos
KM-406.4 25c 1882 Ga S (Stack’s Bowers Kirk Menczer Collection, 22 October 2025, lot 72089)
Diameter 25 mm. 6.768 g. 0.9027 silver
| Date | Asssayer | Recorded Mintage |
Comment |
| 1880 | A | ||
| 1881/0 | S | illustrated below | |
| 1881 | S | ||
| 1882 | S | ||
| 1883/2 | B/S | illustrated below | |
| 1884 | B | ||
| 1889 | S |
KM-406.4 25c 1881/0 Ga S (Stack’s Bowers Kirk Menczer Collection, 22 October 2025, lot 72088)
KM-406.4 25c 1883/2 Ga B/S (Ponterio Baltimore auction, 28 March 2011, lot 9079)
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-408.3 $1 1870 Ga C (Ponterio Baltimore auction, 28 March 2011, lot 9243)
Diameter 17 mm. 27.073 g. 0.9027 silver
| Date | Asssayer | Recorded Mintage |
Comment |
| 1870 | C | ||
| 1871 | C | ||
| 1872 | C | ||
| 1873/2 | C | ||
| 1873 | C |
Gold
Ten pesos
KM-413.4 $10 1871 Ga C (Stack’s Bowers NYINC auction, January 2014, lot 1399)
Diameter 27 mm. 16.920 g. 0.8750 gold
| Date | Asssayer | Recorded Mintage |
Comment |
| 1870 | C | ||
| 1871 | C | ||
| 1872 | C | ||
| 1873 | C | ||
| 1874/3 | C | ||
| 1875 | C | ||
| 1878 | A | ||
| 1879 | A | ||
| 1880 | S | ||
| 1881 | S | ||
| 1891 | S |