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100 Pesos Gobierno Provisional de México
| Issuer | Gobierno Provisional de México |
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| Year | 1914 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Printed in black and red, the obverse carries a Seated Liberty vignette at left, the figure holding a plaque in her right hand and an olive branch in her left. At centre, the Mexican national arms vignette shows an eagle clutching a serpent in its beak, perched on a nopal cactus rising from Lake Texcoco, with the twin volcanoes Popocatépetl and Ixtaccíhuatl visible in the background. Red serial numbers appear on the note, with the issuing authority and decree text arranged in the surrounding letterpress panels. |
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| Reverse lettering | ESTE BILLETE CIRCU- LARA DE ACUERDO CON EL DECRETO DE 19 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 1914 (Translation: This bill will circulate in accordance with the decree of 19 September 1914) |
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The Gobierno Provisional under Victoriano Huerta — whose forces had seized power following the murder of Francisco Madero in February 1913 — issued a cascade of provisional currency as the revolution fractured into competing factions, each printing their own notes and refusing to accept the others'. By 1914, financial confidence had collapsed almost entirely, and Constitutionalist commanders were actively confiscating and destroying Huerta-affiliated paper wherever they found it.
Notes of this series were frequently refused at point of sale, making genuine circulation examples with honest wear harder to account for than one might expect.