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10 Centavos Emiliano Zapata
| Issuer | State of Guerrero |
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| Year | 1915 |
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| Composition | Copper |
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| Obverse description | The Mexican national arms dominate the central field, depicting an eagle displayed facing left, perched upon a cactus plant rising from a rocky islet, with a serpent grasped in its beak and talons. The eagle's wings are spread upward in a heraldic posture, rendered in a bold, somewhat crude revolutionary-era style. A wreath of laurel and oak branches frames the lower portion of the design, tied at the base. The circular legend REPUBLICA MEXICANA arcs along the upper periphery in raised Latin letters, with a dotted border encircling the entire design. |
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| Obverse lettering | REPUBLICA MEXICANA |
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Guerrero's 1915 copper issues emerged from the workshop of the Zapatista forces controlling the state during some of the most fragmented monetary conditions in Mexican revolutionary history. With federal currency distrusted or outright refused across large parts of southern Mexico, local commanders authorized their own emissions to pay troops and purchase supplies — the Zapata-affiliated Guerrero pieces being among the more systematically produced of these regional issues.
KM#637 is frequently encountered with crude striking and off-center alignment, not as a flaw but as a function of improvised production equipment far removed from any established mint facility.