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5 Pesos Gobierno Provisional de Mexico
| Issuer | Gobierno Provisional de Mexico, Veracruz |
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| Year | 1914 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Black letterpress print on green and yellow guilloche underprint, with red serial numbers. A seated Liberty vignette at left holds a plaque in her right hand and an olive branch in her left; at centre, the Mexican national arms vignette shows an eagle grasping a serpent in its beak, perched on a nopal cactus rising from Lake Texcoco, with the twin volcanoes Popocatépetl and Ixtaccíhuatl rendered in the background. |
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| Obverse lettering | VERACRUZ DECIEMBRE 1º DE 1914 LA TESORERIA RECIBIRA Y PAGARA ESTE BILLETE DE ACUERDO CON EL DECRETO 19 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 1914. MEXICO OFICINA DEL GOBIERNO (Translation: Provisional Government of Mexico, Veracruz, December 1st, 1914. The treasury will receive and pay this bill in accordance with the decree of 19 September 1914.) |
| Reverse description | Printed entirely in green with intricate guilloche latticework filling the field, punctuated by denomination numeral '5' counters in each corner. A central oval medallion frames the vignette of a 1 Peso 'Un Peso' silver coin of the Mexican Republic (dated 1903), shown reverse-over-obverse. Flanking inscriptions appear in two rectangular panels to the left and right of the central medallion. A circular red 'Secretaria de Hacienda – Veracruz' official control stamp is applied at upper left. |
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