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20 Pesos Gobierno Provisional de México
| Issuer | Gobierno Provisional de México |
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| Year | 1914 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Black letterpress print on yellow underprint with red overprint and red serial numbers. At left, a vignette of a seated Liberty figure holding a plaque in her right hand and an olive branch in her left. At centre, the Mexican national arms vignette with an eagle gripping a serpent in its beak, perched upon a nopal cactus rising from Lake Texcoco, with the volcanoes Popocatépetl and Ixtaccíhuatl visible in the background. |
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| Obverse lettering | GOBIERNO PROVISIONAL DE MEXICO MEXICO, OCTUBRE 20 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, October 20, 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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The Gobierno Provisional de México was Victoriano Huerta's administration, which controlled the federal printing apparatus after the coup against Madero in February 1913. By 1914, with Constitutionalist forces advancing and the economy fragmenting badly, the revolutionary factions flooding the country with competing paper currencies made any single issue almost immediately suspect. Huerta's government fell in July 1914, and notes from this series were repudiated by Carranza's victorious forces shortly after.
Surviving examples often show heavy use — these circulated hard during a chaotic few months when they still had to.