- Description
- Specifications
| ID Number: | PA07-0503 |
| Description: | Cuauhtemoc-Memorial |
| Country or State: | Mexico |
| Year: | February 1923 |
| Face Value: | 10 ¢ - Mexican centavo |
| Series: | Attractions |
| Perforation: | Rouletted14½ |
| Printing: | Recess |
| Dimensions (B x H): | 23 x 29 mm |
| Catalog Number: | Michel MX 567 Stamp Number MX 639 Yvert et Tellier MX 428 Stanley Gibbons MX 424 |
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The Monument to Cuauhtémoc is an 1887 monument dedicated to the last Mexica ruler (tlatoani) of Tenochtitlan Cuauhtémoc, located at the intersection of Avenida de los Insurgentes and Paseo de la Reforma in Mexico City. It is the work of Francisco Jiménez and Miguel Noreña in the "neoindigenismo" (academic indigenismo style), and was proposed to promote the new government of Porfirio Diaz. |
