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1 Peso El Estado de Sonora
| Issuer | State of Sonora |
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| Year | 1915 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | 1 1 HERMOSILLO, SONORA, MÉXICO, ENERO 1º DE 1915, EL ESTADO DE SONORA PAGARÁ AL PORTADOR EN EFECTIVO 1 UNO SÉRIE C SÉRIE C 1 UN PESO 1 CONFORME AL DECRETO NÚMERO 13 DE FECHA 27 DE AGOSTO DE 1913. EL GOBERNADOR EL SRIO DE ESTADO INT. EL TESORERO GRAL INT. EL INTERVENTOR American Bank Note Co., New York |
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| 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.