10 Pesos Coahuila - Silver Proof Issue

This piece belongs to the long-running series of Mexican state commemoratives issued by Banco de México beginning in 2003, one coin per state across a five-year program. Coahuila de Zaragoza — the state honored here — takes its surname from General Miguel Ramos Arizpe, a federalist whose push for a decentralized Mexican republic in the early nineteenth century directly shaped how the country's states were constituted. The name "Zaragoza" was appended later, honoring Ignacio Zaragoza, born in Coahuila, who commanded Mexican forces at Puebla on May 5, 1862.