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1 Peso El Estado de Chihuahua
| Issuer | State of Chihuahua |
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| Year | 1915 |
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| Value | 1 Peso |
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| Obverse description | Black and blue letterpress on paper with red serial numbers. Portrait vignette of Francisco I. Madero at left and Abraham González Casavantes at right, flanking the central text panel. Issued under military decree of 10 February 1914. |
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| Obverse lettering | EL ESTADO DE CHIHUAHUA PAGARA AL PORTADOR EN EFECTIVO UN PESO, CONFORME AL DECRETO MILITAR DE FECHA 10 DE FEBRERO DE 1914 CHIHUAHUA, CHIHUAHUA, MEXICO. UN PESO (Translation: The State of Chihuahua will pay to the bearer in cash One Peso according to the military decree dated 10 February 1914) |
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Chihuahua was among the most prolific issuers of revolutionary paper money in Mexico, and by 1915 the state had already flooded the region with multiple series of emergency notes — many produced under Villista control. The financial situation had deteriorated badly enough that competing emissions from federal, state, and military sources all circulated simultaneously, and public trust in any single note was thin at best.
Counterfeiting was a documented problem across the Chihuahuan series. Genuine notes were sometimes refused outright while fakes passed without trouble — a reversal that says something about the period's monetary chaos.