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10 Pesos Tesorería General del Estado 1913
| Issuer | Tesorería General del Estado de Chihuahua |
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| Year | 1913 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | SERIE B. Nº [serial] Nº [serial] TESORERIA GENERAL DEL ESTADO EL PRESENTE ES VALIDO, AL PORTADOR, POR DIEZ=$10=PESOS CHIHUAHUA, 10 DE DICIEMBRE 1913 Gobernador Provisional del Estado, Gral. Francisco Villa Tesorero General del Estado [signature] Interventor [signature] IMP. DEL GOBIERNO CHIH. (Translation: SERIE B. No. [serial] No. [serial] / GENERAL STATE TREASURY / THE PRESENT IS VALID, TO THE BEARER, FOR / TEN=$10=PESOS / CHIHUAHUA, DECEMBER 10, 1913 / Provisional Governor of the State, / Gen. Francisco Villa / General State Treasurer [signature] / Comptroller [signature] / Chihuahua Government Printer) |
| Reverse description | Plain buff-coloured paper with a sparse typographic layout printed in dark blue-black ink. The denomination "Diez Pesos" appears in large serif display type at left and right, flanking the central numeral "$10", all set between two horizontal rules. A circular official seal of the State of Chihuahua — bearing the state eagle arms and the legend of the Tesorería — is applied in brown-purple ink over the central numeral, serving as a validation stamp. Faint ghost images of the obverse text show through the thin paper. |
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Chihuahua's state treasury was printing its own emergency currency in 1913 because it had to — the federal banking system had effectively collapsed under the pressures of the Revolution, and Villa's División del Norte controlled enough of the north that local scrip carried real practical authority. The Imprenta del Gobierno de Chihuahua was a government printing office, not a specialized security printer, which is exactly what it looks like: the official stamp was doing heavy lifting that a purpose-built note would have handled through intaglio and watermarked paper.
S555 is one of several Chihuahua state issues from this period that circulated alongside Villista military currency, creating a genuinely chaotic local monetary environment.