1977 MEXICO 20 CENTAVOS STRUCK OFF CENTER
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Nice ebay purchase for 12.95 cents .
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Very cool I collect off-center strike US quarters but if I find any world coins that fit the bill for a decent price I get them as well.
I have some lincoln cent off-center strike too .
This was a cool coin, thats for sure ...
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Cool piece!
I've always like coins from Mexico .
Bought it from a seller in California ..
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I've long been surprised at the downright affordability of modern Mexican error coins. I once scored a really neat off-center 10-peso piece; one of the ones on a multi-sided planchet, for less than ten bucks!
I suppose quality control standards weren't as high at the Casa de Monedas in the late 1970s and early 1980s. I suspect this had something to do with the rampant inflation of the times. Maybe the Mint officials shrugged off searching for misstruck pieces because they knew the coins were rapidly becoming worthless in commerce anyway. By the time I visited Mexico in 1986, kids didn't even pick up 1-peso coins in the street (they were worth 1/6 of a US cent by then, and decreasing still, though they were the same size and color as a US quarter.) So forget about circulating centavos! You needed a 100-peso coin just to play a video game.
Speaking of hyperinflationary periods and off-center errors, here is my 1924 Weimar Republic German error. Maybe it escaped notice at the Mint for similar reasons.
Collector since 1976. On the CU forums here since 2001.
Nice grab!
I've long been surprised at the downright affordability of modern Mexican error coins. I once scored a really neat off-center 10-peso piece; one of the ones on a multi-sided planchet, for less than ten bucks!
I suppose quality control standards weren't as high at the Casa de Monedas in the late 1970s and early 1980s. I suspect this had something to do with the rampant inflation of the times. Maybe the Mint officials shrugged off searching for misstruck pieces because they knew the coins were rapidly becoming worthless in commerce anyway. By the time I visited Mexico in 1986, kids didn't even pick up 1-peso coins in the street (they were worth 1/6 of a US cent by then, and decreasing still, though they were the same size and color as a US quarter.) So forget about circulating centavos! You needed a 100-peso coin just to play a video game.
Speaking of hyperinflationary periods and off-center errors, here is my 1924 Weimar Republic German error. Maybe it escaped notice at the Mint for similar reasons.
I really think there was some group at the mint making these (Mexican 1970-80s errors) on purpose. Note how most of them have a date. Random "natural" errors would show less uniformity.