Yucatan 10 Centavos

Yucatan's 10 Centavos coins were minted as a declaration of the state's short-lived independence during the Mexican Revolution, a rarity among regional issues.

These copper-nickel pieces, struck from 1915 to 1918 in Mérida, featured a simple design with the Yucatan coat of arms on one side and the denomination on the other. That arms symbol—a beehive flanked by volcanoes—reflected local pride in agriculture and revolt. They circulated locally amid wartime shortages, often alongside federal currency.

Production details are murky. No official mintage records survive, likely lost in the chaos of those years. What we do know is that the coins' edges were sometimes irregular, a byproduct of improvised minting.

Some folks still think these were just knockoffs of national coins. As if Yucatan was playing at sovereignty.