10 Centavos Iquitos Revolutionary Government

The Federal State of Loreto's 1921 emergency issues are among the more obscure separatist currency episodes in South American history. Iquitos, deep in the Peruvian Amazon and effectively isolated from Lima by geography, had a long history of autonomous impulse — the rubber boom had made it briefly wealthy and largely self-sufficient, and political grievances periodically bubbled into open defiance of the central government.

El Oriente was the local newspaper press; that a regional broadsheet printer was producing currency tells you everything about the circumstances under which this note came into existence.