Mexico 1868 Hidalgo : 01c Introduction

The first issue of the Hidalgo stamps were only produced between September and December 1868.
The second issue, the 'ones with the dot', have been issued and used between 1868 and 1872.

In my previous post, I posted a grid of various Hidalgo stamps, to show the variety of district numbers.
If you payed attention, you'll see that the first stamp (District 1: MEXICO) has a two-digit number, where districts 2 - 9 only have one number.
There's little info on this two-digit number, and also a single-digit District 1 exits:

District 01 and District 1

The only info I found is, that this is a trial printing for the district/year numbers, usually found on thin figures stamps. You can find them with all kind of numbers, sometimes even several (different) per stamp.
The few 01 stamps I have, are all of type A (thin numbers) and also all with a pen cancel.

As said before, there are 6 stamps in the series without a dot, and 5 in the series with a dot.
Having one of each is a nice start.

If you look for one stamp of each district, you'll have to multiply each of the 11 stamps by 41 ...
makes 451 stamps.
Type A (without a dot) comes with the year 68 or 69, type B comes with the years 68, 69, 70, 71 or 72...
So needles to say, you can easily collect up to 3157 different stamps from this Hidalgo 1868 stamp.
Or 287 varieties for each individual stamp.

The reason for this series of articles here, however, is not to find the 'obvious' ones, but the special ones.
Therefore, I'll post in the next days, some of the varieties found on the type B (dotted number).

Although I will try to be as complete as possible, I don't have stamps (yet) of all sub types of this second issue.
For each stamp (6, 12, 25, 50 and 100 cent), there are - as far as I know - 10 sub types detected from the original mold.
Some sub types can easily be described, but let's not forget that each stamp in this issue has been overprinted with a year, a district number and a district name. And knowing that most of these stamps were used, also a regular cancel (or a forged one) is on top of the stamp as well.

Not an easy job to find the sub types, but if you plan to 'level up' your Hidalgo collection, stay tuned..