Mexico, "Caballito" 1 Silver Peso, Liberty on Horseback

Includes glass top leatherette display box.

• Origin: Mexico, Porfiriato Period
• Authority: Porfirio Díaz
• Date: 1910
• Denomination: 1 Peso (silver)
• Mint: Mexico City
• Size: 39 mm
• Obverse: Eagle with open wings exposing chest, eating a snake with head turned right, standing on a cactus growing out of a rock in the middle of a lake. With lettering around it and denomination at the base of the cactus. And at bottom semi-circle a laurel and olive branches tied together. Emblem used during Porfirio Diaz dictatorship, colloquially known as "Porfirian Eagle".
• Reverse: Liberty riding a horse. On her right hand an oak branch and on her left a flaming torch, with the sun rising on the horizon.
• Notes: The Porfiriato era is a term given to the period of General Porfirio Díaz’s authoritarian military rule over Mexico, which spanned the late 1800s and early 1900s. The Mexican Revolution began near the end of Diaz's reign on November 20, 1910, fueled by widespread dissatisfaction with his policies that favored wealthy elites at the expense of the working and rural poor. These peso coins were commemorating the 100th anniversary of the "Cry of Dolores," when Catholic priest Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla rang his church bell and issued a call to arms that marked the beginning of the Mexican War of Independence in 1810.

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