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2 Pesos Gobierno Provisional de Mexico
| Issuer | Gobierno Provisional de Mexico, Veracruz |
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| Year | 1915 |
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| Printer | Parsons Trading Company, 17 Battery Place, New York, United States |
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| Reverse description | Printed in blue on plain paper, with an elaborate guilloche border and lathe-work rosettes at each corner bearing the numeral 2. At centre, an oval vignette reproduces the reverse of a Mexican Un Peso silver coin dated 1908, inscribed REPUBLICA MEXICANA and UN PESO M° 1908 A.N.S. 0.7, surrounded by a sunburst and intricate engine-turned patterns. A circular red ink stamp of the Secretaria de Hacienda, Veracruz is applied at upper left. |
| Reverse lettering | ESTE BILLETE CIRCULARA 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 de Mexico operated from Veracruz under Venustiano Carranza during one of the most chaotic phases of the Revolution, when multiple competing factions were each printing their own currency. Having notes manufactured by a commercial trading company in lower Manhattan — rather than a specialist security printer — reflects both the urgency and the limited options available to a government that had not yet consolidated control.
The Parsons Trading Company address at 17 Battery Place placed it in the heart of New York's import-export district. Carrancista notes from this period are frequently encountered with authentication stamps, as the proliferation of counterfeits and rival issues forced repeated revalidation in the field.