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50 Pesos Gobierno Provisional de México
| Issuer | Gobierno Provisional de México |
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| Year | 1914 |
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| Currency | Peso (1863-1992) |
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| Obverse description | Black letterpress print on green guilloche underprint with red overprint and red serial numbers. At left, a seated Liberty vignette holds a plaque in her right hand and an olive branch in her left. At centre, the Mexican national arms — an eagle with a serpent in its beak, perched on a nopal cactus rising from Lake Texcoco — is flanked in the background by the volcanic peaks of Popocatépetl and Ixtaccíhuatl. |
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| Reverse lettering | ESTE BILLETE CIRCULARA DE ACUERDO CON EL DECRETO DE 19 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 1911 (Translation: This banknote will circulate in accordance with the decree of 19 September 1911) |
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The Gobierno Provisional de México issues of 1914 emerged from the constitutional crisis following Victoriano Huerta's coup and the refusal of several northern states to recognize his presidency. Carranza's provisional government, lacking a functioning central bank, printed its own currency — the so-called "Constitutionalist" notes — largely to fund military operations against Huerta's federals. These circulated under duress in regions where Carrancista forces held sway, their acceptance enforced more by rifle than by monetary confidence.
Counterfeiting was rampant across all revolutionary factions' issues in this period, and the S707 series is no exception — authentication requires close attention to paper stock and serial number ink.