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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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| Size | 181 × 81 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | GOBIERNO PROVISIONAL DE MEXICO Mexico, septiembre 28 de 1914 LA TESORERIA RECIBIRA Y PAGARA ESTE BILLETE DE ACUERDO CON EL DECRETO DE 10 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 1914. MEXICO OFICINA DEL GOBIERNO (Translation: Provisional Government of Mexico Mexico, September 28, 1914 The treasury will receive and pay this bill in accordance with the decree of 10 September 1914 Mexico Office of the Government) |
| Reverse description | Printed entirely in blue with two applied red circular treasury seals, the reverse is dominated by an elaborate guilloche framework with three large rosette medallions. At centre, a vignette reproduces both faces of a one-peso silver coin of the República Mexicana — the cap-and-rays liberty motif on its obverse visible within the inner oval — surrounded by fine lathe-work engine-turned borders. Denomination numerals "100" appear in each corner within ornamental cartouches. |
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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.