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  • 20 Pesos 2022, KM# 999, Mexico, 100th Anniversary of the Arrival of the Mennonites in Mexico
  • 20 Pesos 2022, KM# 999, Mexico, 100th Anniversary of the Arrival of the Mennonites in Mexico
Description

Banco de México put into circulation a 20-peso coin that commemorates the 100th anniversary of the arrival of the Mennonites to Mexico.

Mennonites are members of certain Christian groups belonging to the church communities of Anabaptist denominations named after Menno Simons (1496–1561) of Friesland. Through his writings, Simons articulated and formalized the teachings of earlier Swiss founders, with the early teachings of the Mennonites founded on the belief in both the mission and ministry of Jesus, which the original Anabaptist followers held with great conviction, despite persecution by various Roman Catholic and Protestant states.

According to the 2012 estimates, there were 100,000 Mennonites living in Mexico (including 32,167 baptized adult church members), the vast majority of them, or about 90,000 are established in the state of Chihuahua, 6,500 were living in Durango, with the rest living in small colonies in the states of Campeche, Tamaulipas, Zacatecas, San Luis Potosí and Quintana Roo.

Their settlements were first established in the 1920s. In 1922, 3,000 Mennonites from the Canadian province of Manitoba established in Chihuahua. By 1927, Mennonites reached 10,000 and they were established in Chihuahua, Durango and Guanajuato.

Issue date: August 8, 2022.

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

Depicts a Mennonite family, with a train on the left and a plowed field on the right. At the top there is a latent image composed of the number "20" and, to the left, the micro text "PIONEER COMMUNITY". In the exergue, the denomination "$20", with the years "1922" and "2022"; in the upper outline, the legend "100TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE MENNONITES’ ARRIVAL IN MEXICO" and, to the right, the mint mark of Mexico’s Mint "M°".

CIEN AÑOS DE LA LLEGADA DE LOS MENONITAS A MÉXICO
20
COMUNIDAD PIONERA

1922 $20 2022

Edge

20 Pesos

100th Anniversary of the Arrival of the Mennonites in Mexico

KM# 999
Characteristics
Type Commemorative Issue (Circulating)
Material Bi-Metallic
Ring Aluminium Bronze
Center Copper Nickel Zinc
Weight 12.67 g
Diameter 30 mm
Thickness 2.4 mm
Shape polygon
Sides 12
Alignment Coin
Mint
Mexican Mint (Mo)

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