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1 Peso Gobierno Provisional de Mexico
| Issuer | Gobierno Provisional de Mexico |
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| Year | 1916 |
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| Reference(s) | P#S709 |
| Obverse description | At left, a full-length vignette of the Christopher Columbus statue stands on a pedestal against a radiating guilloche background. A central oval vignette presents the Mexican national eagle perched on a cactus devouring a serpent, with a mountain landscape behind. To the lower right, a Toltec stone head vignette appears alongside a rosette underprint bearing the denomination numeral '1' and the legend 'UN PESO'. Red serial numbers and series letters are printed in letterpress across the note. |
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| Obverse lettering | GOBIERNO PROVISIONAL DE MEXICO MEXICO 1o DE MAYO DE 1916 Nº 442482 SERIE N L EL TESORERO GENERAL P.O. DEL GRIO. EL S.S. UN PESO (Translation: Provisional Government of Mexico / Mexico, 1st of May 1916 / No. 442482 / Series N / L / The General Treasurer / On behalf of the Government, the Undersecretary / One Peso) |
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The Gobierno Provisional under Venustiano Carranza issued a flood of paper currency between 1913 and 1917, and the market was saturated almost immediately. By 1916, so many competing revolutionary factions — Villistas, Zapatistas, Constitutionalists — had printed their own notes that ordinary Mexicans refused paper money wholesale. The phenomenon had a name: the *bilimbiques*, a contemptuous slang term applied to nearly all revolutionary-era paper regardless of issuer.
Carranza's treasury responded in 1916 with the *infalsificables* series, printed domestically and theoretically harder to counterfeit. P#S709 belongs to that chaotic output. Redemption rates after Carranza's consolidation were poor, and large quantities were simply voided.