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1 Pesos La Tesorería de la Federación, Guaymas
| Issuer | Tesorería de la Federación, Guaymas |
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| Year | 1914 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Black letterpress on cream paper with a red guilloche underprint of repeated 'Un Peso' text across the entire field. The large title 'LA TESORERIA DE LA FEDERACION' is set in bold capital letters across the upper half, with a vignette of the Mexican eagle at upper right. To the left, the numeral '1' appears within an ornate cartouche. A handwritten promise-to-pay text in italic script occupies the centre, dated 'GUAYMAS, SONORA, MARZO 16 DE 1914', accompanied by two manuscript signatures at the lower left. |
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| Reverse description | Central vignette in dark ink presenting a panoramic view of the Guaymas harbour, with sailing vessels on calm water in the foreground and the town's waterfront buildings backed by rugged mountains under an open sky. The numeral '1' appears in white relief within guilloche panels at both lateral edges, and the entire composition is enclosed within an elaborate scrollwork and lace-pattern border. The printer's imprint runs along the bottom margin. |
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Guaymas, Sonora was a federal stronghold during the Revolution's most fractured phase, and the Tesorería de la Federación issued these notes as Huerta's government scrambled to maintain financial control over the northwest while competing currencies — Villista, Constitucionalista, local emergency emissions — flooded the same territory. The Mazatlán firm of A. Díaz de León e Hijos was one of the few commercial lithographers in the region capable of producing passable security printing on short notice.
By late 1914, Huerta had fled the country and most federalist emissions from this period were repudiated outright. Sonoran circulation was brief and chaotic.