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1 peso Comisión Monetaria
| Issuer | Comisión Monetaria |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 1 Peso (1 MXP) |
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| Reverse description | Blue intaglio print with a central allegorical group vignette: at center, a woman in classical dress faces left, extending her hand toward a robed male figure at left who looks toward her; between them stands a nearly nude child holding a caduceus. To the right of the central female figure, a second draped woman completes the composition. The scene is set within an ornate engraved border with geometric and foliate devices. |
| Reverse lettering | COMISIÓN MONETARIA (Translation: MONETARY COMMISSION) |
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The Comisión Monetaria was a short-lived Mexican monetary body, active in the early twentieth century to manage currency reform following decades of instability. By 1920, Mexico had only recently emerged from the worst of the revolutionary period — the Constitutionalists, the Villistas, and the Zapatistas had all issued competing paper currencies, many of which collapsed entirely. A note from the Comisión Monetaria in that year occupied a peculiar transitional moment, when public trust in paper money remained genuinely fragile.
The Oficina Impresora de Hacienda, the government's own printing bureau, produced this domestically — no foreign security printer involvement.