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It should be noted that this coin - the pyramid 'veinte' - was a very USEFUL coin until the very, very end..... it was used for pay phone calls for decades after the operator connected calls described above.... until 1975 when it disappeared from circulation.  In addition, small boxes of paraffin matches cost 20 centavos until about 1974.  Those matches were ever-present, absolutely EVERYWHERE... almost everyone's stoves were lit by matches - i.e., had no pilots - and vast numbers of people smoked, .... and there were no "Zippo" lighters sold in Mexico, and before BIC lighters appeared in the mid seventies, absolutely EVERYONE carried the paraffin matches to light stoves, etc....... resulting in the 20 centavo coin being as ever-present as the matches and pay phones.  It was the most common coin from 1943 to 1974.  And all this apart from its beauty.