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Coin pendant — Mexican 5-peso coin (Vicente Guerrero, 1978) in rope-twist mount
Jewelry
A Mexican copper-nickel 5-peso coin mounted as a pendant. One face bears the right-facing uniformed bust of Vicente Guerrero, with "CINCO PESOS" arced above, the date "1978" to the left, and the Mexico City mintmark "Mo" to the right of the bust. The reverse face bears the national arms of Mexico — an eagle on a prickly-pear cactus with a serpent in its beak — encircled by "ESTADOS UNIDOS MEXICANOS." The coin is captured in a twisted-wire (rope) bezel with a soldered suspension loop at top, converting it to a pendant.
2025.11.58
Pendant
2025.11
Purchase
1978
1970s
Mexico City
Mexico
Central America
Maker: Coin — Casa de Moneda de México (Mexican Mint), Mexico City ("Mo"). Pendant mounting — unidentified; hand-set bezel. Date: Coin dated 1978 (type issued 1971–1978). Mounting undated (presumably contemporaneous or later). Place of Origin: Coin — Mexico (Mexico City Mint). Pendant conversion — undetermined; the repurposing as jewelry is consistent with the collection's Cuban context (tentative).
Guerrero side — "CINCO PESOS," "1978," mintmark "Mo." Arms side — "ESTADOS UNIDOS MEXICANOS." (Edge legend "INDEPENDENCIA Y LIBERTAD," standard for the type, is concealed by the bezel.)
Metal
Materials: Coin — copper-nickel (75% Cu / 25% Ni). Mount — base-metal wire, gilt/silver-toned, with copper substrate exposed and verdigris. Technique: Coin — milled (machine-struck). Mount — hand-fabricated twisted-wire bezel with soldered loop; coin set/crimped into the frame.
Poor
Mexico City
Mexico
Central America
production
A standard Mexican circulation coin (KM# 472, Vicente Guerrero, 1971–1978, copper-nickel, 14 g, 33 mm) repurposed as personal adornment. Guerrero was an independence general and Mexico's second president (abolished slavery, 1829); the coin's edge legend reads "Independence and Liberty."