All Mexican Coins

It depends on the denomination, year, metal, condition and mintage. A common circulated coin is usually worth close to its face value or its metal content; an uncirculated coin, one with a low mintage, or a silver/gold piece can be worth much more. Recent commemoratives and coins with a minting error also climb. On every page in this catalog you'll see an estimated market value range.

Look at the denomination, the year, the material and the design on both sides. With those details, use this catalog's filters (era, denomination, metal) to narrow down and find your piece. If you still can't place it, post it to the Pesoteca forum with photos of the obverse and reverse and the community will help you identify it.

In the Pesoteca directory of numismatic shops you'll find dealers and businesses that buy and sell coins in Mexico. Bring your coin, ask for an appraisal and compare at two or three places, because it's an informal market with no regulated price. Identify your piece well in this catalog before selling so you don't let it go for less than it's worth.

At the numismatic shops in the Pesoteca directory you can buy individual coins or complete a collection, and in the forum there are collectors who trade. Decide what you want to collect (a series, a denomination, silver coins) and use this catalog's filters to see what exists before you buy.

The Pesoteca catalog gathers 2,298 published Mexican coins and keeps growing every week with more verified pieces. It covers everything from the colonial era and the silver reales to modern commemoratives like the Onza Libertad and the 2026 World Cup coins. You can explore them all with the filters by era, denomination and metal.

There's no single answer: it depends on the segment. In gold, the centenarios and the colonial 8 escudos reach the highest prices; in silver, the low-mintage Onzas Libertad and the old uncirculated pesos. The real value is set by rarity, condition and current demand, always in an informal market. Explore the pieces by estimated value by sorting them in this catalog.

Minting errors make a coin more valuable because they're pieces struck outside the norm. The most sought after are double strikes, off-center strikes (the design shifted relative to the rim), strikes on the wrong planchet, incomplete planchets, rotated dies and coins missing one of their elements. A common circulating coin with a genuine error can be worth many times its face value. If you think you have one, post it to the forum to verify it, because there is post-mint damage that gets confused with errors.

Rarity combines several factors: a low mintage, an uncommon year or mint, a specific variety (an overdate, a distinct dot or mark), a minting error and the state of preservation. A low-mintage uncirculated coin is worth far more than the same worn piece. In Mexican numismatics, certain dates and varieties of the same type are much scarcer than others, so it pays to identify yours well in this catalog before valuing it.

Commemoratives and low-mintage series are the most limited runs, and therefore the most coveted. To find out if yours is special, check the type, year and variety on its page in this catalog, where we note its context. No circulating coin is literally unique, but short runs, proofs and those with an unrepeatable error come close and reach the highest prices on the market.