MEXICO SILVER PESO 1989 MO AM RESTRIKE OF 1908 FOR CHINESE FORCES – PCGS MS 64 WORLD COIN (Inv. 21157)

$675.00

21157. MEXICO.
Silver Peso Restrike in 1908, “1898 Mo AM.” San Francisco Mint.
KM 409.2.
PCGS MS 64, super luster.

The U.S. and Mexican governments produced such coins in 1949 for Chiang Kai–Shek’s forces to combat the Chinese Communist revolutionaries, as the 1898 peso was a trusted, familiar currency in the region. The O in the MO mintmark is generally higher than the M.