Catalog
1 Peso Crédito del Estado de Tamaulipas
| Issuer | State of Tamaulipas |
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| Year | 1876 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Dull light grey paper with a pale brown underprint bearing a diagonal guilloche pattern around the perimeter; the issuer's name appears across the top with the face value rendered in both numerals and words at centre and repeated numerically in all four corners. Partial oval black seals are applied to the left and right edges, with a full oval black seal at the bottom. Two handwritten signatures appear below the text block, accompanied by a black serial number at upper left. |
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| Obverse lettering | 1 CREDITO DEL ESTADO DE TAMAULIPAS 7807 $ 1 UN PESO SECRETARIA DEL GOBIERNO DE TAMAULIPAS MEXICO 1876 SERVANDO CANALES VICTORIA (Translation: 1 Credit from the State of Tamaulipas $1, One Peso Secretary of the Government of Tamaulipas State México, 1876 Servando Canales, Victoria) |
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Tamaulipas issued its own paper credit instruments during the 1870s under the broader Mexican framework that permitted individual states to function as quasi-financial authorities before the 1884 federal banking reform centralized such powers. The "Crédito del Estado" designation is telling — these were not bank notes in the conventional sense but state-backed credit obligations, a distinction that mattered legally and practically when redemption was sought.
The S428 series encompasses several signature varieties; the D suffix places this among the later signing combinations. Regional state issues from this period suffered chronically uneven acceptance even within their own borders.