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1 Peso Ejercito Constitucionalista
| Issuer | Ejército Constitucionalista, División de Occidente (State of Jalisco) |
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| Year | 1915 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Ejercito Constitucionalista Division de occidente Un Peso Guadalajara Enero 20 de 1915 (Translation: Constitucional Army West Division 1 Peso Guadalajara January 20 1915) |
| Reverse description | Printed entirely in red, the reverse is dominated by an elaborate guilloche framework with numeral "1" counters in each corner within circular rosette medallions. At center, the Mexican national coat of arms — the eagle on a cactus devouring a serpent — is set within a circular vignette surrounded by fine lathe-work. A black oval control stamp appears at upper left. |
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The División de Occidente notes were issued under the authority of Manuel M. Diéguez, the Constitutionalist military governor of Jalisco, as Carranza's forces worked to displace Villista and Zapatista influence across western Mexico. Local military printing was the only practical option in 1915 — federal infrastructure had collapsed, and the various factions were each flooding their territories with their own paper to fund operations and deny economic ground to rivals.
The result was a chaotic monetary environment so severe that by mid-1915 Carranza's government was actively trying to suppress many of the very regional issues it had authorized. S860 sits in that contested window.