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1 Peso Provisional Government
| Issuer | State of Oaxaca |
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| Year | 1915 |
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| Diameter | 39.0 mm |
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| Obverse description | Left-facing draped bust of Benito Juárez in low relief, identified as the seventh bust type with a short truncation and closed lapels. The date 1915 appears below the effigy, flanked by a star on each side. The encircling legend reads ESTADO L. Y S. DE OAXACA, referencing the Libre y Soberano (Free and Sovereign) State of Oaxaca. The overall execution is characteristic of the emergency provisional coinage produced during the Mexican Revolution. |
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| Mintage | 1915 |
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The State of Oaxaca began issuing its own silver coinage in 1915 after the state government under José Inés Dávila broke from the Carranza faction and declared itself a sovereign entity — the "Soberanía de Oaxaca" — refusing to recognize Carranza's constitutionalist currency. The result was a series of locally struck provisional issues using whatever silver could be procured, with quality and alloy consistency varying noticeably across the run.
KM#743 is among the heavier pieces in the Mexican Revolutionary series, and the weight reflects an attempt to maintain parity with pre-revolutionary Peso standards rather than the debased issues circulating elsewhere in Mexico at the time.