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2 Pesos El Imperio Mexicano
| Issuer | El Imperio Mexicano (Mexican Empire) |
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| Year | 1823 |
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| Value | 2 Pesos (2 MXP) |
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| Obverse description | The upper portion is divided between the denomination DOS PESOS in large letterpress type at the left and a manuscript serial number at the right, with the Imperial Coat of Arms of the Mexican Empire centered between them. Below the central vignette, a letterpress text block carries the empire's pledge to pay two pesos in accordance with the Decree of 20 December 1822, dated Mexico, 1 January 1823, with three handwritten manuscript signatures beneath. The left and right margins are enclosed by a geometric ornamental border bearing the repeated inscription DOS PESOS. |
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| Obverse lettering | DOS PESOS EL IMPERIO MEXICANO promete pagar esta cantidad de DOS PESOS con arreglo al Decreto de 20 de Diciembre de 1822, sobre este asunto. México 1 de Enero de 1823 (Translation: TWO PESOS THE MEXICAN EMPIRE promise to pay this amount of TWO PESOS, according to the Decree of December 20, 1822, on this matter. Mexico January 1, 1823) |
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This note belongs to the brief and chaotic first Mexican Empire under Agustín de Iturbide, who declared himself emperor in 1822 and was forced to abdicate in March 1823 — meaning this issue was being circulated, or at least prepared, during the final weeks of a collapsing regime. The empire lasted less than two years, and fiscal disarray plagued it throughout; paper money was deeply unpopular with a population that had just spent a decade in independence warfare.
Survivors are rare precisely because the empire's end was so abrupt. Notes were neither systematically redeemed nor officially demonetized in any organized way.