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20 Pesos Gobierno Provisional de Mexico
| Issuer | Tesorería del Estado de Veracruz (Mexican Revolutionary Issues) |
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| Year | 1914 |
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| Value | 20 Pesos (20 MXP) |
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| Obverse description | Black letterpress on brown underprint; red serial numbers. At left, a seated Liberty vignette holding an olive branch and a plaque; at centre, the Mexican national arms — an eagle with a serpent in its beak perched on a nopal cactus above Lake Texcoco — with Popocatépetl and Ixtaccíhuatl in the background. |
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| Reverse description | Blue letterpress with red and blue seals. At centre, a vignette of a One Peso coin shown reverse over obverse, set within a plain field framed by the circular seal impressions. |
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Veracruz was one of the most economically critical states in revolutionary Mexico — home to the customs house that generated a significant share of federal revenue, and therefore a prize fought over by Constitutionalist, Federal, and later U.S. forces throughout 1914. The Tesorería del Estado issued provisional paper to keep commerce functioning during a period when federally issued currency was distrusted or simply unavailable in the region.
Dozens of Mexican states and municipalities printed their own emergency notes during this period, and distinguishing legitimate state treasury issues from locally improvised cartones requires attention to authorization signatures and printing quality. Veracruz issues are generally better documented than those from more isolated regions.
April 1914 saw U.S. forces occupy the port of Veracruz itself, disrupting the customs revenue that gave the state treasury whatever credibility it had.