PCGS New World Variety Report November 2021
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a known but still scarce and desirable coin from Mexico. Recently we have been seeing Mexico becoming a popular series and more collectors are flooding to areas that were previously underappreciated, such as Estados Unidos Mexicanos coinage. Recently, PCGS received two examples of a scarce Mexico 1906 2 Centavos featuring a 6 repunched over an inverted 6, often referred to as the “6/9” variety. The 1906 2 Centavos coins were minted at two different mints both featuring the same mint mark of Mo.
Some 5,000,000 pieces were struck at the Birmingham Mint and the remaining 4,998,000 were produced in Mexico City. Catalogs previously noted varieties as narrow and wide dates noting that the Birmingham Mint coins being narrow date. However, updated study shows that the dated distance is incorrect description with the reality being that there are just two different punches used for the “6” of the date. With that being the difference, the overpunching to correct the error becomes a more important major variety for the date and series.
Full report: https://www.pcgs.com/news/pcgs-new-world-variety-report-november
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