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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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| Value | 1 Peso |
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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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| Obverse lettering | EL ESTADO LIBRE Y SOBERANO DE SINALOA PAGARÁ EL PORTADOR EN EFECTIVO UN PESO CONFORME AL DECRETO FECHA 22 DE FEBRERO 1914 SAN BLAS, SIN. (Translation: The Free and Sovereign State of Sinaloa will pay the bearer in cash One Peso conforming to the decree dated 22 February 1914. San Blas, Sinaloa) |
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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.