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2 Pesos Gobierno Provisional de Mexico
| Issuer | Gobierno Provisional de Mexico, Veracruz |
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| Year | 1915 |
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| Printer | Parsons Trading Company, 17 Battery Place, New York, United States |
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| Obverse description | Black letterpress print on a pale yellow and orange guilloche underprint, with red serial numbers. A vignette at left shows a seated female Liberty figure holding a plaque in her right hand and an olive branch in her left. At centre, the Mexican national arms vignette presents an eagle with a serpent in its beak, perched on a nopal cactus rising from Lake Texcoco, with the snow-capped volcanoes Popocatepetl and Ixtaccihuatl visible in the background. |
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| Protection type | Official stamp |
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The Gobierno Provisional de Mexico operated from Veracruz under Venustiano Carranza during one of the most chaotic phases of the Revolution, when multiple competing factions were each printing their own currency. Having notes manufactured by a commercial trading company in lower Manhattan — rather than a specialist security printer — reflects both the urgency and the limited options available to a government that had not yet consolidated control.
The Parsons Trading Company address at 17 Battery Place placed it in the heart of New York's import-export district. Carrancista notes from this period are frequently encountered with authentication stamps, as the proliferation of counterfeits and rival issues forced repeated revalidation in the field.