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10 Pesos El Estado de Chihuahua
| Issuer | State of Chihuahua |
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| Year | 1915 |
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| Size | 185 × 77 mm |
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| Obverse description | Printed in black and yellow with red serial numbers; portrait vignette of Francisco I. Madero at left and Abraham González Casavantes at right, set within an ornate border. The central field carries the principal obligation text with the denomination DIEZ PESOS. Underprint in yellow provides tonal contrast to the black letterpress legends. |
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| Reverse description | Printed in green with red control letters and a red seal; a central vignette presents an exterior view of the Government Palace (Palacio de Gobierno) of Chihuahua city, flanked on either side by two griffons as decorative supporters. The composition is framed by fine guilloche borders typical of the period. |
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Chihuahua's state currency of 1915 emerged from the near-total collapse of the federal monetary system during the Mexican Revolution, when Villa's División del Norte controlled the north and central banking infrastructure had effectively ceased to function across the region. Individual states, municipalities, and even private enterprises issued their own paper — Chihuahua among the more organized of them.
Norris Peters Co. was a Washington-based lithographic firm that handled a range of government and commercial printing work. Their involvement here reflects how revolutionary governments often turned to U.S. printers for legitimacy and technical capacity when domestic printing infrastructure was disrupted or unreliable.