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1 Peso El Estado Libre y Soberano de Sinaloa
| Issuer | Estado Libre y Soberano de Sinaloa |
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| Year | 1915 |
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| Currency | Peso (1915) |
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| Obverse description | Black letterpress on an orange underprint with red serial numbers. At left, a laureate vignette presents a bust of Benito Juárez flanked by a topless allegorical female figure holding a sword; at right, a vignette within an oak wreath frames a bust of Francisco I. Madero. The layout is characteristic of Mexican revolutionary-era state emergency issues. |
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| Reverse description | Printed in red, the reverse carries a panoramic vignette of Culiacán at left and Mazatlán at right, flanking a central composition with the coat of arms of Mexico accompanied by allegorical figures of Liberty and Justice. The patriotic iconography is consistent with the emergency state issues of the Mexican revolutionary period. |
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Sinaloa's revolutionary-period emissions of 1915 came at the height of factional chaos in northwestern Mexico, when Constitutionalist forces under Carranza were consolidating against Villista and other irregular currencies. State-level issues like this one filled a practical void — federal supply lines were unreliable, and local commerce needed a medium of exchange that commanding officers and merchants on the ground would actually accept.
The S1043 designation places it within a relatively well-documented Sinaloa series, though survival rates vary sharply by denomination, and the 1 Peso notes circulated hard enough that uncancelled examples with intact paper are genuinely uncommon.