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1 Peso Pattern, Muera Huerta, Lead
| Issuer | State of Durango |
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| Year | 1914 |
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| Currency | Peso (1914) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Plain with six stars. |
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Durango's revolutionary government issued pattern pieces in 1914 as the Constitutionalist forces under Carranza fought to dismantle Huerta's regime. "Muera Huerta" — Death to Huerta — was not editorial graffiti but a deliberate inscription, stamped into the coinage of a state that had functionally seceded from the federal monetary system. The lead composition reflects improvised wartime production; the northern states were cutting off Huerta's supply lines, and conventional minting materials were not always available.
Victoriano Huerta resigned and fled Mexico in July 1914, making this piece's defiant legend almost contemporaneous with its fulfillment.