Mexico 25 Pesos Silver Coin 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City

Coins of Mexico 25 Pesos Silver Coin 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City

Commemorative issue: 19th Summer Olympics in Mexico City 1968

Obverse: Coat of arms. With legend at top. Value at left, fineness and mint mar at right..
Lettering: ESTADOS UNIDOS MEXICANOS 25 PESOS LEY 0.720 Mo
Translation: United States of Mexico 25 Pesos 0.720 Mexico City Mint

Reverse: Pelota player with court on background. With legend all around and Olympic rings at bottom.
Lettering: JUEGOS DE LA XIX OLIMPIADA MEXICO 1968
Translation: 19th Olympic games Mexico 1968

Edge: Smooth with lettering.
Lettering: INDEPENDENCIA Y LIBERTAD
Translation: Independence and Freedom
Artist: Ricardo Luna Y Vasco

Metal Silver (.720)
Weight 22.5 g
Diameter 38 mm
Thickness 2.5 mm
Shape Round

1968 Summer Olympics
The 1968 Summer Olympics (Spanish: Juegos Olímpicos de Verano de 1968), officially known as the Games of the XIX Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event held in Mexico City, Mexico, in October 1968.
  These were the first Olympic Games to be staged in Latin America and the first to be staged in a Spanish-speaking country. They were also the third Games to be held in autumn, after the 1956 Games in Melbourne and the 1964 Games in Tokyo. The Mexican Student Movement of 1968 happened concurrently and the Olympic Games were correlated to the government's repression.

Mexico Gold 4 Scudos 1823 Half Doubloon of Iturbide

Mexico Gold 4 Scudos 1823 Half Doubloon of Iturbide

The obverse has the bust of Agustin de Iturbide with his imperial title AUGUSTINUS DEI PROVIDENTIA (Augustine God Provides) with the date 1823 below the bust, and mint-mark Mo - Mexico City mint.
Reverse : A shield bearing the Mexican eagle; beneath are the emblems of authority. Legend: "MEX - I - IMPERATOR - CONSTITUT - 4 S - I - M " The value in scudos is at the end.

Agustin de Iturbide, Emperor of Mexico

Agustín Cosme Damián de Iturbide y Arámburu (27 September 1783 – 19 July 1824), also known as Augustine I of Mexico, was a Mexican army general and politician. During the Mexican War of Independence, he built a successful political and military coalition that took control in Mexico City on 27 September 1821, decisively gaining independence. After the liberation of Mexico was secured, he was proclaimed President of the Regency in 1821. A year later, he was announced as the Constitutional Emperor of the new nation, reigning as Emperor briefly from 19 May 1822 to 19 March 1823. He is credited as the original designer of the first Mexican flag. The state governors and military soon tired on him and they proclaimed Mexico a republic in 1823. He abdicated on 19 March 1823 and agreed to exile in Italy. Contrary to his promise he returned to Mexico in 1824 where he was immediately arrested and executed. Interestingly, his grandson, Augustin de Iturbide y Green, was appointed heir apparent to Emperor Maximilian in 1865.

Mexican Imperial Coinage

Mexico Gold 20 Pesos 1866 Emperor Maximilian

Mexican Empire Silver Peso coin 1866 Maximilian I

Mexico 50 Centavos Silver Coin 1866 Emperor Maximilian I

Mexico 50 Centavos Silver Coin 1866 Emperor Maximilian I

Coins of Mexico - 50 Centavos Silver Coin Emperor Maximilian I 1866-Mo Mexico City mint.

Obverse: Bare head of bearded Maximilian I of Mexico, right Small banner below.

Legend: MAXIMILIANO EMPERADOR

Obverse Design and legend the same precisely as 1866-M° Maximilian Peso (Small Letters), but smaller.

Reverse. The Mexican eagle in an imperially crowned elliptical shield, a ribbon festooned on each side at the top ; on the border of the shield, to the left, EQUIDAD EN and to the right, LA JUSTICIA; a five-pointed star at the bottom. Legend: at the top, IMPERIO MEXICANO; in the lower left margin, 50 CENT, and opposite, to the right 1866 Ṁ. A border of small pellets on each side, as on the dollars. Struck only at the Mexico mint in 1866. I have never seen a specimen of any other date or mint. They are extremely rare. Edge the same as 1866-M° Maximilian Twenty Pesos.

Coins of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico

Mexican coins - Empire of Maximilian - Gold 20 Pesos 1866 Mexico City Mint

Mexican Empire of Maximilian,  One Peso Silver Coin 1866-Mo Mexico City Mint

Mexico Gold 20 Pesos 1866 Emperor Maximilian

Mexican Gold Coins‎ - 20 pesos of Maximilian I 1866-Mo Mexico City mint.

The 1866-M° Maximilian Twenty Pesos was struck in 1866 and is part of the Mexican Imperial Coinage series.

Obverse. Head of Maximilian, in profile to the right, with moustache and heavy, pointed beard. Beneath the head, on a bowed ribbon, NAVALON OCAMPO SP1R1TU (names of designer and engravers). Legend: to the left, MAXIMILIANO and to the right, EMPERADOR A border of small pellets.

Reverse. On a sword and sceptre crossed in saltire, the imperially crowned arms of Mexico, in an elliptical shield, supported by griffins. The border of the shield is laurelled, and surrounded by the Order chain of the Eagle; below the shield a ribbon is suspended on which are the words EQUIDAD EN LA JUSTICIA [Equity in justice, i. e. in its administration ]; above all, the legend: IMPERIO MEXICANO [Mexican Empire.] In the lower left margin, 20 PESOS and opposite, at the right, 1866 Ṁ. A border of small pellets as on the obverse. Struck only at Mexico mint in 1886. No other mint or date known. Gold. 


The dies for this piece were evidently prepared with great care, and were highly finished, and were the work of three artists, whose names or initials appear on several of the medals and coins; on some of these two are to be found in combination, but in no previous instance are three to be found together except Maximilian Medal (OCAMPO G) and Maximilian Medal (Round Head), on which two names appear on the obverse and another on the reverse.

Coins of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico

50 Centavos Silver Coin 1866 Maximilian I 

Mexican Empire of Maximilian,  One Peso Silver Coin 1866-Mo Mexico City Mint

Coins made under Maximilian that also feature his portrait are the silver 50 centavos (about the size of a U.S. half dollar), One Peso, about the size of a U.S. dollar and a 20 Pesos in gold also about the diameter of a U.S. Silver dollar (33.84 grams, .875 fine gold). Other minor coins show an eagle on one side and the denomination on the other.

Maximilian I, Emperor of Mexico (born Ferdinand Maximilian Joseph) was a member of Austria's Imperial Habsburg-Lorraine family, brother of Emperor Franz Joseph I. With the backing of Napoleon III of France and a group of Mexican conservatives, he was proclaimed Emperor of Mexico on April 10, 1864. Many foreign governments refused to recognize his government, especially the United States; this ensured the success of Republican forces led by Benito Juárez, and Maximilian was executed, after his capture by Mexican Republicans, in Querétaro in 1867. He is buried in the famous Imperial Crypt in Vienna.

Mexican Empire Silver Peso coin, Maximilian I, 1866.

Mexico - Maximilian Peso silver coin

Maximilian Peso

Silver Peso coin of the Second Mexican Empire (Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico 1864-1867)

Obverse: Bare head of bearded Maximilian I of Mexico, right Small banner below.
Legend: MAXIMILIANO EMPERADOR

Reverse:Crowned oval shield displaying Mexican eagle supported on either side by griffin, sword and scepter en saltire.
Legend: IMPERIO MEXICANO 1 PESO 1866 Mo (Mexico City Mint)
A very nice and popular coin, of the short lived Mexican Empire of Maximilian I(brother of Emperor Franz Joseph I. of Austria).
Denomination: Peso
Reference: KM-388.1.
Mint Place: Mexico City
State: Mexico (Empire of Maximilian)
Diameter: 37 mm
Weight: 27 gram of Silver

Coins of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico

50 Centavos Silver Coin 1866 Maximilian I 

Mexican coins - Empire of Maximilian - Gold 20 Pesos 1866 Mexico City Mint