let's start some buzz on the coin thread!

[unclemac]

coins are one of my passions. We have some folk here that know a thing or two so let's start some talk!

I'll start... let's see some favorites, here is one of mine...

this one is an 1824 8 reales, the first "type" of the new Republic of Mexico.

it was a short lived type, they soon changed the profile eagle to the more common forward facing eagle. But just look at the detail on this image, it is amazing! Notice the snake.... it faces AWAY from the bird, so it is called "submissive".... the SAME profile can have the snake FACING the eagle and they call that "defiant".

Mexican coinage is a DEEP well to fall into!

 

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[unclemac]

oops... i posted "defiant" and meant to post "submissive" but look at the detail!

 

[Mackaydon]

The coat of arms of Mexico, the Mexican eagle, has its origin in the legend of the founding of Mexico City. Traveling Indians, looking for a site to locate a settlement, came upon the sign told to them by their medicine men; besides a lake, perched on a nopal cactus plant was an eagle in the act of devouring a serpent. The lake was Texcoco, the settlement, Tenochtitlan and the date 1325. Modern Mexico City stands on the location of Tenochtitlan.
The snake can also be found with its head in a 'down' position.
Is your coin from Durango, Guanajuato or MXC?
That's a great coin in any Mexican collection.
Don in SoCal

 

[unclemac]

mine is Durango. Also to note... the Aztecs went by the name "Mexica" , pronounced more like "Mesheka"...thus "Mexico"!

 

[unclemac]

speaking of the eagle and snake image.... it started with this coin (and its variants). The National Congress coins of the Mexican war of Independence (1811). These are the first use of this image for Mexican coins.

 

[l.cutler]

I love the artwork on Mexican coins and currency, even some of those still in production.