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(DD-001) Mexico: 1944-Mo 5 centavos
Find date: Fall, 1992
Find site: my front yard, 505 Dennis Street, Swannanoa, NC.
Approx. depth: 3".
Detector: Garrett GTA-500.
First coin found!
KM424, bronze, 25.5 mm. Mexico City mint. This type is called a "Josefa", after Josefa Ortiz de Dominguez, whose portrait is featured on the coin. She was a patriot in the Mexican War of Independence in the early 1800s. Our old house where it was found had housed Mexican migrant laborers in the 1940s.
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