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2 Pesos División del Bravo
| Issuer | División del Bravo, State of Nuevo León |
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| Year | 1914 |
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| Currency | Peso (1863-1992) |
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| Obverse description | Black letterpress print on gray underprint with red serial numbers. The centre vignette shows the Mexican eagle emblem, flanked by the text 'REPUBLICA MEXICANA' in large letters across the top and 'DIVISION DEL BRAVO / CUARTEL GENERAL' above the eagle. The promise-to-pay text, date, and denomination 'Dos Pesos' appear across the lower half, with three manuscript signature lines attributed to El Jefe de Hacienda, El General en Jefe, and El Gobernador del Estado. |
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| Reverse lettering | EJERCITO NACIONAL DIVISION DEL BRAVO ESTE BILLETE ES DE CIRCULACIÓN FORZOSA TESORERIA DE HACIENDA MONTERREY (Translation: NATIONAL ARMY / DIVISION OF THE BRAVO / THIS BANKNOTE IS OF FORCED CIRCULATION / TREASURY OF FINANCE MONTERREY) |
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The División del Bravo was a Constitutionalist military force operating under General Pablo González during the Mexican Revolution's most fractured phase. By 1914, northern Mexico was flooded with competing revolutionary currencies — federal, state, municipal, and factional — often accepted at gunpoint and repudiated as soon as the issuing force moved on. This note belongs to that chaotic emissions period, when military commanders issued scrip not through any banking authority but simply to pay troops and requisition supplies from a civilian population that had little choice.
Printed locally in Monterrey, which fell to Constitutionalist forces in April 1914, the series circulated within a narrow geographic and temporal window. Redemption was uncertain at best.