Catalog
1 Peso El Estado de Sonora
| Issuer | State of Sonora |
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| Year | 1915 |
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| Reference(s) | P#S1071 |
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| Reverse description | Printed in green intaglio on white paper with a dense guilloche border and corner ornaments. The central vignette carries the Mexican national coat of arms — an eagle perched on a cactus with a serpent in its beak — enclosed within a circular legend reading '* REPUBLICA MEXICANA * GOBIERNO DEL ESTADO LIBRE Y SOBERANO DE SONORA'. Flanking the central medallion are two symmetrical guilloche panels each bearing the numeral '1' within the word 'UNO'; the denomination 'ESTADO DE SONORA' appears in a banner at the foot, with the printer's imprint 'AMERICAN BANK NOTE COMPANY, NEW YORK.' below. A red circular cancellation stamp is visible at upper left. |
| Reverse lettering | UN PESO UN PESO 1 UNO 1 UNO ⋆ REPUBLICA MEXICANA ⋆ GOBIERNO DEL ESTADO LIBRE Y SOBERANO DE SONORA ESTADO DE SONORA AMERICAN BANK NOTE COMPANY, NEW YORK. |
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Sonora was one of the few Mexican states with both the political will and the financial connections to commission paper currency from a major international security printer during the Revolution. The Constitutionalist-aligned state government under Maytorena — and later his rivals — maintained enough institutional coherence to place orders with the ABNCo in New York even as the rest of the country dissolved into competing emission schemes and cartón money printed on whatever press was available locally.
The 1915 dating places this squarely in the most chaotic phase of the currency wars, when notes from different factions were being accepted, refused, or discounted by the hour in border markets. ABNCo production gave Sonoran paper a credibility advantage that crudely lithographed state issues from elsewhere simply could not match.