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1 Peso Emiliano Zapata
| Issuer | State of Guerrero |
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| Year | 1914 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#641 |
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| Reverse description | A Phrygian liberty cap rests atop a prominent sunburst of radiating rays at center, the entire device enclosed within a wreath composed of olive and oak sprigs tied with a ribbon at the base. The state abbreviation GRO. and the gold fineness notation ORO: 0,300 appear in the upper field within the wreath. The circular legend REFORMA LIBERTAD JUSTICIA Y LEY arcs along the upper periphery within a beaded border, while the date 1914 is positioned at the base of the reverse field between the lower wreath ties. The design reflects the Zapatista revolutionary authority of the State of Guerrero. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Guerrero's 1914 revolutionary coinage was produced under conditions of near-total institutional collapse, with local insurgent forces needing functional money to pay troops and purchase supplies outside Federal control. The electrum composition here was almost certainly a matter of metallurgical necessity — Guerrero's sierra mining regions yielded native gold-silver alloy that was smelted and coined without the refining infrastructure required to separate the metals cleanly.
Zapata's movement never operated a formal mint in the conventional sense. These pieces were struck by provisional local authorities loosely aligned with the Ejército Libertador del Sur, and consistency between individual coins is poor enough that examples vary noticeably in fineness.