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20 Centavos Gobierno Provisional de Mexico
| Issuer | Gobierno Provisional de Mexico |
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| Year | 1914 |
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| Composition | Paper (Gray pasteboard) |
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| Obverse description | Liberty head vignette at left, rendered in dark grey letterpress on gray pasteboard, with an eagle at the base of the figure. A red circular handstamp appears at upper left. The note bears series and denomination inscriptions within a guilloche border, with the word TRANSITORIO printed vertically at right. |
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| Reverse description | Central vignette of the Aztec sun stone calendar, printed in dark grey on gray pasteboard, flanked by ornamental scrollwork. Denomination panels reading VEINTE CENTS. appear to either side of the calendar, with TRANSITORIO inscribed twice on ribbon banners below. Denomination numerals 20 appear at each upper corner. |
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The Gobierno Provisional de Mexico emisssions of 1914 belong to the chaotic currency fragmentation of the Mexican Revolution, when dozens of military factions, regional governments, and provisional authorities were printing their own money simultaneously. Carranza's constitutionalist movement, under whose broad umbrella this note was issued, had no stable treasury and relied on rapidly produced local currency to pay troops and move supplies.
Gray pasteboard rather than proper banknote stock points to genuine wartime scarcity of materials — this is not a design choice.