10 Pesos El Estado de Chihuahua

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.