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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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| Engraver(s) | Fernando Fernández |
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| Obverse description | Printed in black with blue serial numbers; at left, a vignette of the Columbus Monument erected in Mexico City in 1877, based on the sculpture by Charles Cordier; to its right, an engraving after the painting The Tlaxcalan Senate by Rodrigo Gutiérrez; at lower right, a sculpted head of the Aztec goddess Coyolxauhqui, known from the discovery of 1830. |
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| Reverse lettering | Este billete circulara conforme al decreto de 3 de abril de 1916 (Translation: This bill will circulate in accordance with the decree of 3 April 1916) |
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The Gobierno Provisional de México was Venustiano Carranza's administration-in-waiting, issuing paper currency while still fighting for control of the country. By 1916 Mexico had been flooded with competing revolutionary notes — Villista, Zapatista, Constitutionalist — to the point where the public had largely stopped accepting paper of any kind. Carranza's treasury responded with a series of forced-currency decrees, making refusal to accept these notes a criminal offense.
Fernando Fernández designed and engraved the plates himself, an unusual consolidation of both roles in one craftsman. The S710 series is among the more locally produced issues of the Constitutionalist currency programs.