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Decimal issues of the Hermosillo mint

Copper

One centavo 

Diameter 25 mm. 8 g.

Date Comment
1875 recorded mintage 3,500 
1876  
1880 short H, round O
1880 tall H, oval O 
total recorded mintage for 1880 102,000
1881  

 

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

KM 391.5 1880 round OKM 391.5 1880 round O reverse
KM-391.5 1880 round O

KM 391.5 1880 oval OKM 391.5 1880 oval O reverse
KM-391.5 1880 oval O

Silver

Five centavos

Diameter 15 mm. 1.353 g. 0.9027 silver 

Date Asssayer Comment
1874/69 R  
1874 R  
1878 A  
1878 A  mule, gold peso obverse
1880 A  
1886 G  
1896 R  
1897 R  
1898 R  
1899 R  
1900 R  

 

Ten centavos 

Diameter 17 mm. 2.707 g. 0.9027 silver 

Date Asssayer Comment
1874 R  
1876 F  
1878 A  
1879 A  
1880 A  
1881 A  
1882/1 A large A in assayer's initial
recorded mintage 25.000
1882/1 A small A in assayer's initial
1882 A  
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 1882/1 (Stack’s Bowers Kirk Menczer Collection, October 2025, lot 71346

Large "A" variety.

Twenty-five centavos

Diameter 25 mm. 6.768 g. 0.9027 silver 

Date Asssayer 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  

 

Fifty centavos

Diameter 30 mm.13.536 g. 0.9027 silver 

Date Asssayer 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 1874 (Stack’s Bowers Kirk Menczer Collection, October 2025, lot 72256)

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

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

Gold

One peso

Diameter 15 mm.1.692 g. 0.8750 gold 

Date Asssayer 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 

Diameter 18 mm. 4.230 g. 0.8750 gold 

Date Asssayer Comment
1874 R  
1888 G  

 

KM 411.4 1888
KM-411.4 1888 (Morton & Eden sale 104, lot 640)

Five pesos 

Diameter 22 mm. 8.460 g. 0.8750 gold 

Date Asssayer Comment
1874 R  
1877 R  
1877 A  
1888 G  

 

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

Ten pesos 

Diameter 27 mm. 16.920 g. 0.8750 gold 

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

 

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

Twenty pesos

Diameter 27 mm. 16.920 g. 0.8750 gold 

Date Asssayer Comment
1874 R  
1875 R  
1876 F  
1888 G  

 

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