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2 Pesos Gobierno Provisional de Mexico; Flat base on value
| Issuer | Gobierno Provisional de Mexico (State of Veracruz) |
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| Year | 1915 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Black letterpress on pale yellow and orange underprint; a seated Liberty vignette at left holds a plaque in her right hand and an olive branch in her left, while the centre is occupied by the Mexican national arms — an eagle with a serpent in its beak perched on a nopal cactus rising from Lake Texcoco, the volcanoes Popocatépetl and Ixtaccíhuatl visible in the background. The issuer name arches across the top, face value appears in words above numerals repeated in all four corners and in numeral with dollar sign at right centre, with a single-letter series designation and red six-digit serial numbers at top right and lower left, two manuscript signatures with printed titles at lower left and right, and the printer imprint along the bottom margin. |
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| Reverse description | Blue letterpress with a round red validation seal; at centre a vignette of the reverse and obverse of a Mexican 1 Peso coin dated 1908 divides a bilingual validation text, with the red circular seal of the Secretaría de Hacienda positioned above and to the left of centre. |
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The Gobierno Provisional de México notes of 1915 were issued under Venustiano Carranza's faction during the most chaotic phase of the Mexican Revolution, when the country was awash with competing currencies from Villista, Zapatista, Constitutionalist, and Conventionist sources simultaneously. Merchants frequently refused all of them. The state of Veracruz became administratively critical to Carranza precisely because the port city was the primary customs revenue point — making these emissions one of the more financially grounded issues of the period, even if public trust in paper money had largely collapsed.
The "flat base on value" designation distinguishes this from the curved-base numeral variant, a minor typographical difference that creates two catalogued varieties from what was evidently the same print run.