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1 Peso El Estado de Durango
| Issuer | Estado de Durango (State of Durango) |
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| Year | 1913 |
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| Currency | Peso (1914) |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress printed in black on beige paper with no pictorial vignette. Issuer title across the top; denomination in red at centre with two decimal places, red series letter and control letters lower right, and a five-digit red serial number upper right. One manuscript signature with title to the right, place and date of issue centred below the value; a circular black official seal overstamped to the left. |
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| Reverse lettering | Estos bonos son de circulación for- zosa, a la par, en el Estado; de poder liberatorio ilimitado; devengarán un in- terés de seis por ciento anual, pagadero al último de sus tenedores. Están garantizados con derechos reales conforme al decreto del 12 de di- ciembre de 1913. La persona que en cualquiera forma deprecie su valor incurrirá en una multa de $20 a $200 según el Decreto de 15 de diciembre de 1913. (Translation: These bonds are of forced circulation, at par, in the State; with unlimited legal tender power; they will accrue interest of six percent per annum, payable to the last holder. They are guaranteed with real rights in accordance with the Decree of 12 December 1913. Any person who depreciates their value in any way will incur a fine of $20 to $200 according to the Decree of 15 December 1913.) |
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During the Mexican Revolution, individual states and military factions issued their own paper currency as federal supply chains collapsed. Durango's state-issued notes of 1913 emerged under Governor Raymundo Frías, whose administration needed to maintain troop payments and basic commerce as Villista and federal forces contested the region. The result was a series of low-denomination emergency issues produced under improvised conditions, with little standardization in signing or dating — meaning two ostensibly identical notes can differ significantly in manuscript details.
Paper quality and ink adhesion vary considerably across surviving examples, a direct consequence of wartime procurement.