Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
25 Centavos El Estado de Sonora
| Issuer | State of Sonora |
|---|---|
| Year | 1915 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Size | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Printer | American Bank Note Company, New York, United States |
| Designer(s) | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Black on white paper with a grey underprint signature bar at base; portrait vignettes of Francisco I. Madero at left and José María Pino Suárez at right flank a large central numeral 25, with smaller 25 numerals at each corner. Serial numbers printed in red appear at upper left and upper right, with a series letter also in red. |
|---|---|
| Obverse lettering | EL ESTADO DE SONORA PAGAR AL PORTADOR EN EFECTIVO VEINTICINCO CENTAVOS Conforme al Decreto numero 13 de Fecha 27 de augusto de 1913 Hermosillo Sonora, Mexico Enero 1 de 1915 (Translation: THE STATE OF SONORA PAY TO THE BEARER IN CASH TWENTY FIVE CENTS According to Decree number 13 Dated 27 of August of 1913 Hermosillo Sonora, Mexico January 1 of 1915) |
| Reverse description | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Signature(s) | Log in to see details |
| Protection type | Log in to see details |
| Protection description | Log in to see details |
| Variants | Log in to see details |
| Comments |
Sonora's state government issued this note under the authority of Governor José María Maytorena during the revolutionary period, when the collapse of federal monetary infrastructure forced individual Mexican states to print their own emergency currency. Sonora was among the better-resourced issuers precisely because of its cross-border relationship with Arizona — American commercial confidence in the state translated directly into a contract with ABNC, an unusually high-quality printer for a regional emergency issue.
The choice of American Bank Note Company gave Sonoran currency a credibility that most revolutionary-era Mexican paper lacked entirely. Counterfeit pressure was still a serious problem nonetheless, as competing factions printed rival scrip throughout the north.