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1 peso Comisión Monetaria
| Issuer | Comisión Monetaria |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Brown intaglio print on pale yellow paper with a central allegorical vignette of a standing female figure in classical drapery, flanked by cherubs and scroll ornamentation on clouds, executed in a fine engraved style. Denomination cartouches bearing '1 PESO' appear at left and right within guilloche rosette frames. Blue typeset serial numbers are printed twice in the lower portion, with two manuscript signatures below divided by a microtext underprint band reading 'BIMEXICANO'. |
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| Obverse lettering | COMISIÓN MONETARIA VALE POR UN PESO PAGADERO EN ORO AL PORTADOR Y A LA VISTA México, 10 de Enero de 1920 CAJERO GERENTE (Translation: Monetary Commission Good for one peso, payable in gold to the bearer on demand Mexico, January 10, 1920 Cashier Manager) |
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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.