What will the new coin honoring Pancho Villa look like and how much will it cost?

He Bank of Mexico will issue a new coin in honor of José Doroteo Arango, better known as Pancho Villathis in commemoration of centenary of his death.

The initiative to issue this coin in honor of Pancho Villa was discussed in the Senate of the Republic on March 15. He was approved with 89 votes for, 2 against and 4 abstentionsafter which it was sent to the Chamber of Deputies.

This is a proposal presented by Lilia Margarita Valdez, senator from Durango for the National Regeneration Movement (Morena), since April of the previous year.

The room will have a face value of 20 mexican pesos the one on the obverse (main face) will have the national coat of arms with the legend “UNITED MEXICAN STATES” in a semicircle. In the reverse will include an element related to the centenary of the so-called Centauro del Norte and security elements (latent image and microtext) which must also be linked to the commemorated event.

It will be a dodecagonal bimetallic specimen silver nickel silver in the central part (composed of copper, nickel and zinc) and bronze-aluminum in the peripheral crown. It will have a diameter of 30 millimeters and weigh 0.51 grams.

When discussing the initiative, Senator Ernesto Pérez Astorga, representative of the Treasury and Public Credit, stressed that Villa’s military achievements were not limited to the north of the country, but rather had a great impact on the revolutionary movement. on a national level. . .

He design of the commemorative coin of the centenary of the death of Pancho Villa will be in charge of the Bank of Mexico (Banxico), which will have 30 calendar days after the publication of the decree in the Official Gazette of the Federation (DOF) to define it.

Coins will begin circulating no more than 90 days after approval of the commemorative image design that will be included on the reverse.

This is not the first 20 peso coin honoring this historical figure. Among the examples of this type that Banxico has put into circulation is the model of the Centenary of the capture of Zacatecaswhich is still valid for making transactions and It is sold for up to 500,000 Mexican pesos.

On the coin Villa appears mounted on horseback in the center, the generals Felipe Ángeles and Pánfilo Natera. In addition to a silhouette of the top of the hill of La Bufa, a key place in the development of the battle of June 23, 1914 in which the Constitutionalist army consolidated.

The Northern Centaur has been slain the afternoon of July 20, 1923, in an ambush on his way to a family party in Parral, Chihuahua.

Driving his car himself, he started through the town of Parral, where a group of armed men was waiting for him. We say that in total Villa’s car received 150 bullets, 13 of which passed through his body.

His killing came amid suspicions about the intellectual perpetrator of the deadly attack, in previous months he had been wanted by US troops. However, it was not until Plutarco Elias Calles came to power that the general was assassinated, which is why the press at the time even pointed out that he could be responsible.