Overview
- The Casa de Moneda’s 2025–2030 program, published in the Diario Oficial on November 3, confirms the transition to steel cores with bronze electroplating for the 1, 2 and 5-peso coins.
- New pieces will retain their current size and weight but gain a brighter, more uniform finish, greater durability and stronger anti-counterfeiting features, and the mint targets ISO 9001, 14001 and 50001 compliance.
- Banxico estimates the material and process change will reduce costs by 300–400 million pesos per year.
- The plan does not remove the 50-centavo or 10-peso coins, countering false claims that those denominations would disappear.
- Older coin families, including Families B and C and certain commemoratives, continue a managed withdrawal yet remain legal tender until Banxico formally cancels them, with banks required to pull withdrawn pieces from recirculation.