Morelos was Zapata's home territory, and the Ejercito Libertador del Sur operated its own provisional government with enough administrative coherence to issue copper coinage when federal currency had effectively collapsed in the region. These pieces were struck at Cuautla under the authority of the Liberation Army — not a national mint — making them military scrip as much as civil currency. Federal Constitutionalist forces retook Morelos in 1916, ending both the issue and, eventually, Zapata himself.
Morelos was Zapata's home territory, and the Ejercito Libertador del Sur operated its own provisional government with enough administrative coherence to issue copper coinage when federal currency had effectively collapsed in the region. These pieces were struck at Cuautla under the authority of the Liberation Army — not a national mint — making them military scrip as much as civil currency. Federal Constitutionalist forces retook Morelos in 1916, ending both the issue and, eventually, Zapata himself.