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2 Pesos Gobierno Provisional de Mexico; curved base on value

Issuer Gobierno Provisional de Mexico (State of Veracruz)
Year 1915
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Value 2 Pesos (2 MXP)
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Obverse lettering 2 PESOS
GOBIERNO PROVISIONAL DE MEXICO
VERACRUZ, FEBRERO 5 DE 1915
Nº 1320699
SERIE G
CONSTITUCION
1914
MEXICO
EL TESORERO GENERAL R. O. DEL SRIO. EL S. S.
LA TESORERIA RECIBIRA Y PAGARA ESTE BILLETE
DE ACUERDO CON EL DECRETO DE 19 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 1914.
MEXICO OFICINA DEL GOBIERNO
(Translation: Provisional Government of Mexico
Veracruz, February 5th., 1915
Constitution, 1914, México.
The General Treasurer, Delegated Representative of the Secretary, the Alternate Secretary
The treasury will receive and pay this banknote in accordance with the decree of September 19th., 1914
México, Office of the Government)
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Reverse lettering SECRETARIA DE HACIENDA
VERACRUZ
REPUBLICA MEXICANA
ESTE BILLETE CIRCU-
LARA DE ACUERDO CON
EL DECRETO DE 19 DE
SEPTIEMBRE DE 1914
UN PESO Mo 1908 A. M. 902.7
(Translation: Finance Secretary, Veracruz
Mexican Republic
This note will circulate in accordance with the decree of September 19th., 1914
One Peso)
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The Gobierno Provisional de México issues of 1915 emerged from the extreme monetary chaos of the Constitutionalist period, when multiple competing factions were printing their own paper and the public had little basis for trusting any of it. Veracruz served as Carranza's provisional capital from late 1914, and the treasury press there — the Oficina del Gobierno — turned out a succession of low-denomination notes as federal finances lurched from one crisis to the next.

The "curved base on value" designation distinguishes this variety from flat-base printings of the same denomination — a minor typographic difference that the cataloguers treat as a separate variety, almost certainly reflecting a plate correction mid-run rather than a deliberate redesign.

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