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1 Peso Gobierno Provisional de Mexico
| Issuer | Gobierno Provisional de Mexico, Veracruz |
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| Year | 1915 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Black letterpress print on a yellow underprint, with red serial numbers at upper right. The left panel carries a Seated Liberty vignette, the allegorical figure holding a plaque in her right hand and an olive branch in her left; at centre, the Mexican national arms appear as an eagle grasping a serpent in its beak while perched on a nopal cactus above Lake Texcoco, the volcanoes Popocatépetl and Ixtaccíhuatl rising in the background. Issuing authority text and date are set in bold letterpress above and below the central vignette. |
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| Reverse description | Brown letterpress print with elaborate guilloche lathe-work filling the entire field, anchored at each corner by ornamental rosette cornerpieces. A central vignette of a Mexican 1 Peso coin, reverse side uppermost and inscribed REPUBLICA MEXICANA / UN PESO Mo 908 A 90.3, sits within concentric guilloche borders, with the statutory legend split across two rectangular cartouches flanking the coin. A circular red official seal is applied at upper left. |
| Reverse lettering | ESTE BILLETE CIRCU- LARA DE ACUERDO CON EL DECRETO DE 19 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 1914 (Translation: This bill will circulate in accordance with the decree of 19 September 1914) |
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