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100 Pesos Charles III coin
| Issuer | Casa de Moneda de México |
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| Year | 2011 |
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| Value | 100 Pesos |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The silver centre reproduces in high relief the obverse design of a Spanish colonial 8 reales coin of 1783, depicting the right-facing laureate and draped bust of King Charles III of Spain, with the legend CAROLUS III DEI GRATIA surrounding the effigy and the date 1783 in the exergue. The aluminium bronze outer ring bears the legend HERENCIA NUMISMÁTICA DE MEXICO arcing along the upper periphery, the mint mark Mo at lower left, the year 2011 at lower right, and the denomination $100 prominently displayed at the bottom of the ring. |
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This piece belongs to a long-running Mexican commemorative bimetallic series that began in 1992, designed to highlight pre-Columbian cultures and the colonial period. The 100 Pesos denomination was chosen specifically for these issues to signal collectible intent — they were never seriously intended for circulation, and most left the mint directly into collector hands.
Charles III reigned from 1759 to 1788 and oversaw the most ambitious overhaul of Spanish colonial administration in the eighteenth century, the Bourbon Reforms, which restructured taxation and trade in ways that accelerated colonial resentment. The Casa de Moneda de México itself was directly affected — it had operated as a private lease until Charles III brought it under Crown control in 1732, decades before his reign but central to the Bourbon centralization his policies extended.