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1 Peso El Estado de Sonora
| Issuer | State of Sonora |
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| Year | 1915 |
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| Value | 1 Peso (1 MXP) |
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| Obverse description | Black intaglio print on white paper with intricate guilloche border. Two oval portrait vignettes frame the centre: a bearded gentleman to the left and a mustachioed gentleman to the right, each set within fine lathe-work surrounds. The centre carries an elaborate ornamental guilloche medallion bearing the numeral '1' and the legend 'UNO', surmounted by the bold arched title 'EL ESTADO DE SONORA' and the promise text 'PAGARÁ AL PORTADOR EN EFECTIVO'; red serial numbers appear at upper left and right, with 'SÉRIE C' printed in red on both sides of the central vignette. Four facsimile signatures appear along the lower margin above the printer's imprint 'American Bank Note Co. New York'. |
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| Reverse lettering | UN PESO UN PESO 1 UNO 1 UNO ⋆ REPUBLICA MEXICANA ⋆ GOBIERNO DEL ESTADO LIBRE Y SOBERANO DE SONORA ESTADO DE SONORA AMERICAN BANK NOTE COMPANY, NEW YORK. |
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Sonora was one of the few Mexican states with both the political will and the financial connections to commission paper currency from a major international security printer during the Revolution. The Constitutionalist-aligned state government under Maytorena — and later his rivals — maintained enough institutional coherence to place orders with the ABNCo in New York even as the rest of the country dissolved into competing emission schemes and cartón money printed on whatever press was available locally.
The 1915 dating places this squarely in the most chaotic phase of the currency wars, when notes from different factions were being accepted, refused, or discounted by the hour in border markets. ABNCo production gave Sonoran paper a credibility advantage that crudely lithographed state issues from elsewhere simply could not match.