Catalog
10 Pesos El Estado Libre y Soberano de Sinaloa
| Issuer | Estado Libre y Soberano de Sinaloa |
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| Year | 1915 |
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| Currency | Peso (1915) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in black over a green underprint, with serial number in red. At left, a vignette of Benito Juárez in bust portrait, wreathed in laurel and flanked by a topless allegorical female figure bearing a sword; at right, a corresponding vignette of Francisco I. Madero in bust portrait, wreathed in oak. |
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| Reverse description | Printed in blue, the reverse presents a panoramic composition across its full width: at far left, a view of Culiacán; adjacent, an allegorical figure of Liberty; at centre, the coat of arms of Mexico; continuing right, an allegorical figure of Justice; and at far right, a panoramic view of Mazatlán. |
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Sinaloa's revolutionary-era emissions of 1915 were authorized under the Constitutionalist framework that permitted individual Mexican states to issue their own paper currency during the chaos following Huerta's fall. The Estado Libre y Soberano de Sinaloa took that authorization seriously, producing a series of denominations including this 10 Pesos note at a moment when federal currency had essentially collapsed in the northwest and local commerce needed any functional medium of exchange.
Redemption was never guaranteed. Many state issues from this period were repudiated or simply abandoned when Carranza's government moved to consolidate monetary authority later in 1916.