Lunch outing brings me my lowest mintage coin yet.

[AGCoinHunter]

Go out to dump 800 dollars in the coin machine and decided to swing by a BOA that was up the street. Its a bit off the beaten path so I have had decent luck getting silver there. Did the usual ask, and the teller says another teller has some halfs. Wait my turn and the other teller says she has $50 worth. Figure its a dump but take it anyway. Grab some nickels for the evening. So I get into the car and rip open the wrappers. Find 2 90's and one 40 and a coin that now is my lowest mintage coin in my collection........ a 1972 Mexican Peso, mintage of 120,000. Anyone know what this sucker is made out of?

Thanks for looking.

 

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[65gt350]

Nice find. It is made out of Copper and Nickel (CuNi).

HH,
65GT350

 

[thurmownator]

Nice finds, and good luck with the nickels.

Do you have a link that shows Mexican coin mintages ? Could you share it with us ?

Thanks.

 

[AGCoinHunter]

Sorry I dont have a place to go for mintage. Just saw one on a website which was selling one and it listed the mintage.

 

[fistfulladirt]

I have found a couple of those. Threw 'em in the trash! No j/k, gave em to the kids. (still ended up in the trash?) ffd

 

[AGCoinHunter]

Yea, I figure it wasnt worth much being a peso (8 cents, maybe). Kinda cool to find. I keep all my foreign coins, make good things for the kids to see one day.

 

[65gt350]

Yea, I figure it wasnt worth much being a peso (8 cents, maybe). Kinda cool to find. I keep all my foreign coins, make good things for the kids to see one day.

Try $0.00008. Since it was issued before the reform.

Caza feliz (Happy Hunting)
65GT350

 

[AGCoinHunter]

Wow, so copper and nickel in this thing is worth more.

 

[thurmownator]

Sorry I dont have a place to go for mintage. Just saw one on a website which was selling one and it listed the mintage.

Just an FYI, I would take any info listed on sell sites like that with a grain of salt. Would be neat, though, to have access to mintages (from the respective country's official mint) of coins from other countries.

 

[65gt350]

Nice finds, and good luck with the nickels.

Do you have a link that shows Mexican coin mintages ? Could you share it with us ?

Thanks.

Thurmownator,

You can try this link and use the search this book feature.

http://books.google.com/books?id=rseuLmTlEZAC


HH,
65GT350

 

[AGCoinHunter]

Good link there GT. Found that coin, mintage 121,000,000! Its pretty rare I know various websites are not exactly trustworthy, but until I saw this link GT supplied, I didnt know where on earth the mintage of these were documented.