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2 Centavos Army of the North
| Issuer | Ejército del Norte (Army of the North), State of Jalisco |
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| Year | 1915 |
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| Value | 2 Centavos (0.02) |
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| Obverse description | Central device depicts a Phrygian liberty cap resting on a bundle of rays or sunbeams radiating outward in all directions, filling the field in a bold, rustic style characteristic of Mexican Revolutionary emergency coinage. The cap is rendered in moderate relief, with the sunbeams extending to near the rim. The circular legend REPUBLICA MEXICANA arcs around the upper and lateral periphery, while the date 1915 appears in large numerals at the bottom of the field. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The Army of the North referenced here is not Pancho Villa's División del Norte but the Constitutionalist force operating under Manuel M. Diéguez in Jalisco — a distinction that confuses collectors regularly. These copper emergency issues were authorized at the state level during the most chaotic phase of the Mexican Revolution, when the national currency had collapsed so thoroughly that dozens of regional military factions were producing their own coinage simply to pay troops and buy supplies.
Jalisco's issues from this period are among the more obscure of the Revolutionary provisional series. Diéguez held Guadalajara under persistent pressure from Villista and Cristero-precursor factions throughout 1915.