Overview
- The Casa de Moneda’s 2025–2030 program, published in the Diario Oficial de la Federación, confirms a material shift for the 1-, 2- and 5-peso coins to steel cores with a bronze electroplated finish beginning in 2025.
- The coins will keep their current size and weight and preserve their visual identity, with a brighter, more uniform tone expected from the bronze coating.
- Banxico highlights expected savings of 300–400 million pesos annually alongside gains in durability, counterfeit deterrence, and adherence to international minting practices and ISO standards.
- To meet strong cash demand, Banxico has increased coin orders about 55% since 2021 and projects producing more than 3 billion coins per year, following 2023 trials with Royal Canadian Mint blanks that showed technical feasibility.
- Routine withdrawals of older B and C coin families continue with legal-tender status maintained, while reports of sharply reduced 50-centavo production are being circulated but are not explicitly mandated in the published program.