Catalog
10 Pesos Gobierno Provisional de Mexico
| Issuer | Gobierno Provisional de Mexico, Tesoreria de Veracruz |
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| Year | 1914 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | VERACRUZ DECIEMBRE 1º DE 1914 LA TESORERIA RECIBIRA Y PAGARA ESTE BILLETE DE ACUERDO CON EL DECRETO 19 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 1914. MEXICO OFICINA DEL GOBIERNO (Translation: Provisional Government of Mexico Veracruz December 1st, 1914 The treasury will receive and pay this bill in accordance with the decree of 19 September 1914) |
| Reverse description | Brown print on plain paper ground with elaborate guilloche lathe-work forming two horizontal oval cartouches flanking a large central medallion. The central vignette reproduces a Mexican cap-and-rays Un Peso coin dated 1908 ("UN PESO Mo 1908 A Ms Go" legend visible on the coin die), set within a sunburst guilloche frame. Denomination counters "10" appear in ornamental shields at each corner. A red oval treasury seal is struck at upper left over the guilloche work. |
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The Gobierno Provisional de México issues of 1914 were Carranza's financial infrastructure during the Revolution — printed hastily to fund Constitutionalist operations while the Huerta government still controlled Mexico City. The Tesorería de Veracruz designation matters: after U.S. forces occupied the port in April 1914, Carranza's administration used Veracruz as its effective capital and financial base before taking Mexico City the following year.
Counterfeiting of Constitutionalist emergency notes was rampant. Multiple factions produced competing paper, and provincial treasuries often couldn't distinguish genuine issues from forgeries in the field. Authentication was a genuine operational problem, not a theoretical one.