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Is it true the U.S. Mint at New Orleans struck coins for Mexico just before the mint shut down?

The New Orleans branch mint closed permanently in 1909. During 1907, the facility struck Mexican silver 20- and 50-centavos coins that can be differentiated from those struck at the Mexico City mint by the Curved 7 in

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