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1 Peso Division del Bravo
| Issuer | Division del Bravo, State of Nuevo León |
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| Year | 1914 |
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| Size | 158 × 68 mm |
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| Obverse description | Black letterpress print on a pink underprint, with red serial numbers. A central vignette bears the Mexican national eagle devouring a serpent. Text blocks carry the issuing authority, denomination, and date of issue, laid out in a formal military-government style. |
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| Obverse lettering | Republica Mexicana Division del Bravo Cuartel General La Nacion Pagará Un Peso. al Portador en efectivo Monterrey, a 8 de Enero de 1914. (Translation: Mexican Republic Division of the Bravo General Headquarters The nation will pay One Peso to the bearer in cash Monterrey, 8 January 1914) |
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The División del Bravo was a Constitutionalist military division operating in northeastern Mexico during the revolution, and its paper emissions were functional field money — issued to pay troops and procure supplies when coined silver had vanished from circulation almost entirely. Nuevo León saw intensive hoarding from 1913 onward as the Huerta government's credit collapsed, leaving regional commanders with little choice but to print their own instruments.
P#S937 sits within a crowded field of Constitutionalist military issues from 1914, many of which were repudiated, counterfeited, or simply abandoned as command structures shifted. Provenance matters more than condition here — documentation tying a note to a specific garrison or paymaster record is genuinely rare.