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5 Pesos Division del Bravo
| Issuer | División del Bravo, Cuartel General, Nuevo León |
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| Year | 1914 |
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| Value | 5 Pesos (5 MXP) |
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| Obverse description | Black letterpress on cream paper within a guilloche border, with the large bold legend REPUBLICA MEXICANA across the upper field. A central vignette shows the Mexican eagle with serpent, flanked by the inscriptions DIVISION DEL BRAVO and CUARTEL GENERAL. The denomination $5 appears in ornate counters at upper right and lower left, with SERIE A. in red at upper right and the serial number in red at upper left. The promise text LA NACION PAGARA al Portador... Cinco Pesos en efectivo is set across the lower half, with the place and date MONTERREY a 8 de Enero de 1914, and three manuscript signatures beneath the titles EL JEFE DE HACIENDA, EL GENERAL EN JEFE, and EL GOBERNADOR DEL ESTADO. |
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| Reverse lettering | EJERCITO NACIONAL DIVISION DEL BRAVO ESTE BILLETE ES DE CIRCULACION FORZOSA JEFATURA DE HACIENDA MONTERREY N.L. GOBIERNO DEL ESTADO LIBRE Y SOBERANO DE NUEVO LEON |
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The División del Bravo was a Constitutionalist military division operating in the northeast during the Mexican Revolution's most chaotic phase — 1914 being the year Huerta's federal government collapsed entirely. Notes like this one were issued by field commands rather than any central banking authority, a practical necessity when unified currency infrastructure had ceased to function and troops needed to be paid and supplied.
Military script of this type was redeemable in theory against future Constitutionalist government obligations, though redemption in practice was uneven at best. The official stamps served as the primary authentication mechanism in the absence of engraved security printing.