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2 Pesos Emiliano Zapata
| Issuer | State of Guerrero |
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| Year | 1914 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse description | Mexican national arms at center, depicting an eagle displayed facing left, perched on a prickly pear cactus growing from a rock and devouring a serpent, with a laurel and oak branch tied at the base. The field is enclosed by a beaded border. The legend REPUBLICA MEXICANA arcs above, while DOS PESOS and the mint mark GRO with date 1914 appear in the lower portion of the field. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Guerrero's 1914 emergency coinage emerged from one of the most administratively fragmented moments of the Mexican Revolution, when individual states and factions issued their own currency out of sheer necessity. The State of Guerrero produced several denominations in this series, and the electrum composition — a naturally occurring or deliberately alloyed gold-silver mixture — reflects improvised metallurgy rather than any deliberate archaism. Precise alloy consistency varies between surviving specimens.
Zapata's forces controlled much of Guerrero during this period, and the association of his name with the issue speaks to how thoroughly Zapatista authority had displaced federal infrastructure in the region by mid-1914.