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Decimal issues of the Hermosillo mint (copper and silver)

Copper

One centavo  

KM 391.5 1875KM 391.5 1875 reverse
KM-391.5 1c 1875 Ho (Ponterio Baltimore auction, November 2012, lot 11339)

Diameter 25 mm. 8 g.

Date Recorded
Mintage
Comment
1875 3,500  
1876 8,508  
1880 102,000 short H, round O (illustrated below)
1880 tall H, oval O (illustrated below)
1881 458,600  

 

KM 391.5 1880 round OKM 391.5 1880 round O reverse
KM-391.5 1c 1880 Ho round O

KM 391.5 1880 oval OKM 391.5 1880 oval O reverse
KM-391.5 1c 1880 Ho oval O

Silver

Five centavos

Diameter 15 mm. 1.353 g. 0.9027 silver 

Date Asssayer Recorded
Mintage
Comment
1874/69 R    
1874 R    
1878 A   22,000  
1878 A  mule, gold peso obverse
1880 A  43,000  
1886 G  44,000  
1887 G  20,000  
1888 G  12,000  
1889 G  67,000  
1890 G 50,000  
1891 G 46,000  
1893 G 84,000  
1894 G 68,000  

 

KM 398.6 1874 69KM 398.6 1874 69
KM-398.6 5c 1874/69 Ho R (Stack’s Bowers Kirk Menczer Collection, 21 October 2025, lot 71139)

Horizontal "O" mint mark.

KM 398.6 1891 0 reverseKM 398.6 1891 0
KM-398.6 5c 1891/0 Ho G (Stack’s Bowers Kirk Menczer Collection, 21 October 2025, lot 71147)

Ten centavos 

KM 403.6 1876 reverseKM 403.6 1876
KM-403.6 10c 1876 Ho F (Stack’s Bowers Kirk Menczer Collection, 21 October 2025, lot 71341)

Diameter 17 mm. 2.707 g. 0.9027 silver 

Date Asssayer Recorded
Mintage
Comment
1874 R    
1876 F    
1878 A    
1879 A    
1880 A    
1881 A    
1882 A 25,000  
1882/1 A large A in assayer's initial (illustated below)
1882/1 A small A in assayer's initial
1883 A    
1884 A    
1884 M    
1885 M    
1886 M    
1886 G    
1887 G    
1888 G    
1889 G    
1890 G    
1891/80 G    
1891 G    
1892 G    
1893 G    

 

KM 403.6 1882 1KM 403.6 1882 1 reverse
KM-403.6 10c Ho A 1882/1 (Stack’s Bowers Kirk Menczer Collection, October 2025, lot 71346)

Large "A" variety.

KM 403.6 1882 1 reverseKM 403 1891 0
KM-403.6 10c 1891/0 Ho G (Stack’s Bowers Kirk Menczer Collection, 21 October 2025, lot 71357)

Twenty-five centavos

Diameter 25 mm. 6.768 g. 0.9027 silver 

Date Asssayer Recorded
Mintage
Comment
1874 R    
1875 R    
1876/4 F/R    
1876 F/R    
1876 F    
1877 F    
1878 A    
1879 A    
1880 A    
1881 A    
1882 A    
1883 M    
1884 M    
1885 M    
1886 M    
1886 G    
1887 G    
1888 G    
1889 G    
1890 G    

 

KM 406.6 1875 69KM 406.6 1875 69 reverse
KM-406.6 25c 1875/89 Ho R (Stack’s Bowers Kirk Menczer Collection, 22 October 2025, lot 72115)

Double die reverse.

KM 406.6 1876 4KM 406.6 1876 4 reverse
KM-406.6 25c 1876/4 Ho F/R (Ponterio Baltimore auction, 28 March 2011, lot 9098)

Fifty centavos

Diameter 30 mm.13.536 g. 0.9027 silver 

Date Asssayer Recorded
Mintage
Comment
1874 R    
1874/74 R   low 7
1875/4 R    
1875 R    
1876/5 F/R    
1876 F    
1877 F    
1880/70 A    
1880 A    
1881 A    
1882 A    
1888 G    
1894 G    
1895 G    

 

KM 407.5 1874KM 407.5 1874 reverse
KM-407.5 50c 1874 Ho R (Stack’s Bowers Kirk Menczer Collection, October 2025, lot 72256)

KM 407.5 1894 reverseKM 407.5 1876 5
KM-407.5 50c 1876/5 Ho F (Stack’s Bowers Kirk Menczer Collection, 22 October 2025, lot 72258)

Very long line below "o" mint mark.

KM 407.5 1888KM 407.5 1888 reverse
KM-407.5 50c 1888 Ho G  (Stack’s-Bowers Baltimore auction, 28 March 2011, lot 9193)

KM 407.5 1894KM 407.5 1894 reverse
KM-407.5 50c 1894 Ho G (Stack’s Bowers Kirk Menczer Collection, October 2025, lot 72264)