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cosmolothrentas | 10-31-2008 04:47 PM
Gold two peso coin - 1945 - year not date of coin? I picked up a few two peso coins and my contact told me "1945" is not the date of the coin. He said they were probably struck 5 years ago or so. Why do they continue striking 1945 on newly minted two peso gold coins? I read this: <Two Pesos Dated from 1919 to 1947, the 1945 date is the easiest to find. We believe these are still officially restruck using this date.> I cannot find any confirmation if this is true or not. thanks .

argentos | 10-31-2008 08:26 PM
Re: Gold two peso coin - 1945 - year not date of coin? Quote:
Originally Posted by cosmolothrentas (Post 1389723) <Two Pesos Dated from 1919 to 1947, the 1945 date is the easiest to find. We believe these are still officially restruck using this date.>
Chard is rarely if ever wrong! :biggrin:

GreenSpirit | 10-31-2008 08:48 PM
Re: Gold two peso coin - 1945 - year not date of coin? I doubt they were struck that recently but Mexican gold peso coins are often restrikes.

Renegade | 11-01-2008 12:43 AM
Re: Gold two peso coin - 1945 - year not date of coin? Seems like I read that the date, and the President on the coin, are based on the year that president took office,,,and both remain as such until a new president is elected....but don't quote me on that,,,DYODD

Saul Mine | 11-01-2008 12:46 AM
Re: Gold two peso coin - 1945 - year not date of coin? I would guess it's because they're too cheap to make a new die.

argentos | 11-01-2008 07:01 AM
Re: Gold two peso coin - 1945 - year not date of coin? The Austrians also have a tradition of carrying on with the same pattern. The popular and very thin gold 1915 4-ducat is still being minted. However the Maria Theresa silver dollar has an even longer history: Quote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Theresa_Thaler The Maria Theresa thaler (MTT) is a silver bullion-coin that has been used in world trade continuously since it was first minted in 1741. It was named after Empress Maria Theresa, who ruled Austria, Hungary, and Bohemia from 1740 to 1780. Since 1780, the coin has always been dated 1780 and has been struck by the following mints: Birmingham, Bombay, Brussels, London, Paris, Rome and Utrecht, in addition to the Habsburg mints in G�nzburg, Hall, Karlsburg, Kremnica, Milan, Prague and Vienna. Between 1751 and 2000, some 389 million were minted. These different mints distinguished their issues by slight alterations to the saltire, or flower symbol, which looks like an X, at the top left of the reverse side of the coin. In 1946, the Vienna Mint rescinded any rights of foreign governments to issue such copies; subsequently, the Vienna Mint has produced over 49 million MTTs. It was one of the first coins used in the United States and probably contributed, along with the Spanish eight-bit dollar, to the choice of a dollar as the main unit of currency for the United States.

latemetal | 11-09-2008 02:20 PM
Re: Gold two peso coin - 1945 - year not date of coin? Fleamarket 2 1/2 peso coin dated 1945 for $45, gotta be a re-strike.:565:

madfranks | 11-10-2008 01:16 PM
Re: Gold two peso coin - 1945 - year not date of coin? I have a few of those as well, and what I learned was that it was indeed, a die issue. They have working dies with that year on it, so why not use it? Saves them the costs of new die production. Early American coins were the same, sometimes they struck coins on last years dies because the new ones weren't ready yet. And then if they could, they'd re-strike the coin with the new date, which is why there are lots of two date overstrike "errors" from that time.

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