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  • 5 Pesos 2009, KM# 907, Mexico, 100th Anniversary of the Mexican Revolution, Filomeno Mata
  • 5 Pesos 2009, KM# 907, Mexico, 100th Anniversary of the Mexican Revolution, Filomeno Mata
Description

The Mexican Revolution was a major armed struggle c. 1910–1920 that radically transformed Mexican culture and government. Its outbreak in 1910 resulted from the failure of the 35-year long regime of Porfirio Díaz to find a managed solution to the presidential succession. Wealthy landowner Francisco I. Madero challenged Díaz in 1910 presidential election, and following the rigged results, revolted under the Plan of San Luis Potosí. Armed conflict ousted Díaz from power and a new election was held in 1911, bringing Madero to the presidency.

In February 1913 Madero and his vice president Pino Suárez were forced to resign, were assassinated, and the counter-revolutionary regime of General Victoriano Huerta came to power, backed by the U.S., business interests, and other supporters of the old order. Huerta remained in power from February 1913 until July 1914, when he was forced out by a coalition of different regional revolutionary forces. Then the revolutionaries' attempt to come to a political agreement following Huerta's ouster failed, and Mexico was plunged into a civil war (1914–1915). The armed conflict lasted for the better part of a decade, until around 1920. Over time the Revolution changed from a revolt against the established order under Díaz to a multi-sided civil war in particular regions with frequently shifting power struggles among factions in the Mexican Revolution.

Obverse

Depicts the seal of the United Mexican States.

The Seal of the United Mexican States is a modified version of the national coat of arms, with the addition of the full official name of the country Estados Unidos Mexicanos, in a semi-circular accommodation in the upper part of the seal. Current and past Mexican peso coinage have had the seal engraved on the obverse of all denominations.

The coat of arms depicts a Mexican golden eagle perched on a prickly pear cactus devouring a rattlesnake. To the people of Tenochtitlan this would have strong religious connotations, but to the Europeans, it would come to symbolize the triumph of good over evil (with the snake sometimes representative of the serpent in the Garden of Eden).

ESTADOS UNIDOS MEXICANOS

Reverse

Filomeno Mata (1845-1911) was a teacher and journalist from San Luis Potosí whose work was set down in El Monitor Republicano and La Patria and, more than anywhere else, in the daily he founded in 1861, El diario del hogar, which expressed his anti-Porfirian ideas. Through his newspaper, he definitely aided Madero's movement, for which he was persecuted and jailed. He died in 1911 from illnesses contracted during his imprisonment. The life and work of Mata represent critical journalism and the full exercise of the liberties of free speech and a free press.

CENTENARIO DE LA REVOLUCIÓN
Ṁ 2009 $5
FILOMENO MATA
MÉXICO 2010

Edge
Characteristics
Type Commemorative Issue (Circulating)
Material Aluminium Bronze
Weight 7.07 g
Diameter 25.5 mm
Thickness -
Shape round
Alignment Coin
Mint
Mexican Mint (Mo)

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