MEXICO

Country in North America

Capital city: Mexico City
19°26′N 99°08′W

Official language: None at federal level
Area: 1,972,550 km2
Currency: Peso (MXN)
Time zone: (GMT-6); UTC −8 to −5
Driving side: right
Calling code: +52
ISO 3166 code: MX

Mexico is a country in the southern portion of North America. It is bordered to the north by the United States; to the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea. The nation is the fifth largest country in the Americas by total area.

Acapulco, Aguascalientes, Cabo San Lucas, Campeche, Cancun, Chetumal, Chichen-Itzá, Chihuahua, Chilpancingo, Ciudad Juarez, Ciudad Victoria, Colima, Cuernavaca, Culiacán, Durango, Ensenada, Guadalajara, Guanajuato, Guaymas, Gutiérrez, Hermosillo, Xalapa (Jalapa), La Paz, Manzanillo, Matamoros, Mazatlan, Mexicali, Mérida, México City, Monterrey, Morelia, Nogales, Nuevo Laredo, Oaxaca, Pachuca, Peñasco, Playa del Carmen, Puebla, Puerto, Puerto Vallarta, Querétaro, Saltillo, San Felipe, San Luis Potosí, Tampico, Tapachula, Tepic, Tijuana, Tlaxcala, Toluca, Tuxtla, Veracruz, Villahermosa, and Zacatecas.

The Mexican peso (sign: $; code: MXN) is the currency of Mexico. Modern peso is the 10th most traded currency in the world, after the United States dollar and Canadian dollar.

$10 peso coin

Diameter: 28.0 mm, Shape: Round, Weight: 10.329 grams.

Obverse: In the center field, the national shield.
Reverse: In the center, the circle of the Sun Stone representing Tonatiuh with the fire mask. Around the Ollín glyph (related to motion and to the fifth sun).

$ 5 pesos

Diameter: 25.5 mm, Shape: Round, Weight: 7.07 grams.

Obverse: In the center field, the national shield.
Reverse: As the key motif, a stylized image of the “Ring of the Serpents of the Sun Stone”.

2 pesos

Diameter: 23.0 mm, Shape: Round, Weight: 5.19 grams.

Obverse: In the center field, the national shield.
Reverse: As the key motif, a stylized image of the "Ring of Splendor of the Sun Stone".

1 peso

Diameter: 21.0 mm, Shape: Round, Weight: 3.95 grams.

Obverse: In the center field, the national shield.
Reverse: As the key motif, a stylized image of the "Ring of Splendor of the Sun Stone".

$ 50 centavos

Diameter: 17 mm, Shape: Round, Weight: 3.103 grams

Obverse: In the center field, the national shield.
Reverse: Parallel to the edge, at the bottom, a stylized image of the "Ring of Acceptance of the Sun Stone."

$ 20 centavos

Diameter: 15.3 mm, Shape: Round, Weight: 2.258 grams.

Obverse: In the center field, the national shield.
Reverse: To the left, parallel to the edge, a stylized image of the "Thirteenth Acatl Day of the Sun Stone."

$ 10 centavos

Diameter: 14 mm, Shape: Round, Weight: 1.755 grams.

Obverse: In the center field, the national shield.
Reverse: To the right, parallel to the edge, a stylized image of the “Ring of the Sacrifice of the Sun Stone.”

$ 5 centavos

Diameter : 15.5 mm, Shape: Round, Weight: 1.58 grams.

Obverse: In the center field, the national shield.
Reverse: To the left, parallel to an engraved pentagon, a stylized image of the solar rays of the "Ring of the Quincunxes of the Sun Stone."

20 pesos obverse

Obverse: Image of Don Benito Juárez García (1806 – 1872), who became president of Mexico in 1858 and issued the reform laws with the support of the radical liberals. His defense of human freedoms, which served as an example to other Latin American countries, he was proclaimed “Benemérito de las Américas.”

20 pesos reverse

Reverse: View of the archeological zone of Monte Albán (built by the Zapotec culture), located in the state of Oaxaca and declared by UNESCO. To the left of this scene is a detail from an earring found in tomb number 7 of the archeological site, and to the lower right is a fragment of a large mask of the God of Rain and Thunder.

Size: 120 x 66 mm

Material: Polymer

50 pesos obverse

Obverse: The image of Morelos. To the left of the image appears a frame made up of Morelos’ battle flag, two intertwined cannons, a bow, an arrow, and the word "SUD". The latter two elements were used as motifs in the coins minted by the insurgent leader.

50 pesos reverse

Reverse: Aqueduct of the city of Morelia, Michoacán, constructed by Bishop Manuel Escalante Columbres in the eighteenth century. Three monarch butterflies appear in front of it. To the left side of the aqueduct is a representation of the pre-Hispanic symbol of the state of Michoacán (Mechuaca - "land of fish").

Size: 127 x 66 mm

Material: Polymer

100 pesos 2020 obverse

Obverse: The historical process of the colonial period, figure of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, the most important poet/writer of novo Hispanic literature. Her figure is accompanied by a vignette representing a section of the main patio of the Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso, located in Mexico City's Center, and which was a landmark of educational services during the New Spain.

100 pesos 2020 reverse

Reverse: The temperate forest ecosystem is represented with the pine, oak and oyamel trees of the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve, located in the State of Mexico and the state of Michoacán de Ocampo. The Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve has been recognized as a natural world heritage site by UNESCO.

Size: 132 x 65 mm

Material: Polymer

200 pesos 2019 obverse

Obverse: The representation of the beginning of Mexico’s War of Independence, with the image of Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, a priest who, on September 16, 1810, called upon the population through what is popularly known as “el grito de Dolores” and started the independence movement; and, the image of José María Morelos y Pavón, who assumed the leadership of the independent movement after the death of Hidalgo and is known as the “Siervo de la Nación”.

200 pesos 2019 reverse

Reverse: The image of a royal eagle represents Mexico’s scrubland and desert ecosystem found at the Pinacate and Gran Desierto de Altar Biosphere Reserve in Sonora, designated by UNESCO as World Heritage Site.

Size: 139 x 65 mm

Material: Cotton paper

500 pesos obverse

Obverse: Represents the Liberal Reform and the Restoration of the Republic, is depicted with an image of President Benito Juárez (1806-1972), who issued the Laws of Reform with the support of radical liberals. Benito Juárez was proclaimed “Benemérito de las Américas” (Distinguished Hero of the Americas).

500 pesos reverse

Reverse: The image, which represents Mexico’s coastline, sea and island ecosystems, is depicted with a gray whale and her calf in El Vizcaino Biosphere Reserve, Baja California, designated by UNESCO as natural heritage of mankind.

Size: 146 x 65 mm

Material: Cotton paper

1000 pesos 2019 obverse

Obverse: The historical process of the Mexican Revolution is represented with the figures of President Francisco I. Madero, Hermila Galindo and Carmen Serdán, driving forces of the revolutionary ideals of democracy, equality and justice. These figures are accompanied by an image of a locomotive, the revolutionaries’ main means of transportation.

1000 pesos 2019 reverse

Reverse: The rainforest ecosystem is represented with the jaguar and the ceiba and zapote trees, in the Ancient Mayan City and protected tropical forests of Calakmul, in the state of Campeche. Calakmul has been recognized as a natural and cultural world heritage site by UNESCO.

Size: 153 x 65 mm

Material: Cotton paper

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