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Description:
Obverse
The national seal of Mexico; a Mexican eagle facing left with wings raised and held slightly open, standing on its left claw on a flowering nopal cactus that emerges from a lake and extends to each side, with its right claw and beak hold a curving snake; two branches, one of oak in front of the eagle and the other of laurel on the opposite side, form the lower half of a circle, joined in the middle by a ribbon divided into three bands.
Reverse
Winged Victoria of the Mexican Independence Victory Column holding a laurel crown in her right hand (symbolizing Victory) and a broken chain in her left (symbolizing Freedom) in front of a landscape with the volcanoes Popocatépetl and Iztaccíhuatl.Mint mark is located below her left hand.
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