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1 Peso Provisional Government, Unfinished Truncation, Copper
| Issuer | State of Oaxaca |
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| Year | 1915 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Draped bust of a male figure facing right, occupying the central field, with an unfinished truncation at the base characteristic of this die variety. The surrounding legend reads ESTADO L. Y S. DE OAXACA, affirming the Free and Sovereign State of Oaxaca, with the date 1915 flanked by stars positioned at the lower periphery. The overall execution is notably crude, consistent with the emergency provisional coinage produced during the Mexican Revolution. The field is plain and unadorned beyond the portrait and circumscribed legend. |
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| Obverse lettering | ESTADO L. Y S. DE OAXACA * 1915 * (Translation: Free and sovereign state of Oaxaca.) |
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Oaxaca's provisional coinage of 1915 was issued under the authority of Guillermo Meixueiro and the local Soberanista movement, which refused to recognize Carranza's Constitutionalist government and struck its own currency to fund operations in the sierra. The "unfinished truncation" variety reflects the improvised nature of production — dies were prepared under field conditions, and finishing details were inconsistently applied across the run.
These pieces circulated in a region effectively cut off from national monetary supply for much of the Revolution's middle phase.