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| Issuer | Gobierno Provisional de México |
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| Year | 1914 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | GOBIERNO PROVISIONAL DE MEXICO Mexico, septiembre 28 de 1914 LA TESORERIA RECIBIRA Y PAGARA ESTE BILLETE DE ACUERDO CON EL DECRETO DE 10 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 1914. MEXICO OFICINA DEL GOBIERNO (Translation: Provisional Government of Mexico Mexico, September 28, 1914 The treasury will receive and pay this bill in accordance with the decree of 10 September 1914 Mexico Office of the Government) |
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| Reverse lettering | ESTE BILLETE CIRCU- LARA DE ACUERDO CON EL DECRETO DE 19 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 1914 (Translation: This bill will circulate in accordance with the decree of 19 September 1914) |
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The Gobierno Provisional under Victoriano Huerta — whose forces had seized power following the murder of Francisco Madero in February 1913 — issued a cascade of provisional currency as the revolution fractured into competing factions, each printing their own notes and refusing to accept the others'. By 1914, financial confidence had collapsed almost entirely, and Constitutionalist commanders were actively confiscating and destroying Huerta-affiliated paper wherever they found it.
Notes of this series were frequently refused at point of sale, making genuine circulation examples with honest wear harder to account for than one might expect.