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2 Pesos La Tesorería de la Federación, Guaymas
| Issuer | Tesorería de la Federación, Guaymas, Sonora |
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| Year | 1914 |
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| Printer | Lit. La Nacional, A. Díaz de León e Hijos, Mazatlán |
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| Obverse description | Red-orange and olive-yellow note with an all-over letterpress underprint of repeated text 'Dos Pesos' forming the background. The bold title 'LA TESORERIA DE LA FEDERACION' is printed in large black letterpress across the upper field. To the left, an ornate frame encloses the numeral '2' in black. To the right, a vignette of the Mexican eagle is printed in dark ink. The lower portion carries a handwritten date 'GUAYMAS, SONORA, MARZO 16 DE 1914' along with two manuscript signatures and a promise-to-pay text in italic script. |
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| Reverse lettering | 2 2 LIT. "LA NACIONAL." - MAZATLAN. A. DIAZ DE LEON E HIJOS |
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Guaymas was one of several regional treasury outposts authorized to issue emergency circulating notes during the chaotic early months of revolutionary consolidation in 1914, when Constitutionalist forces under Carranza were pressing into Sonora and the central monetary system had effectively broken down. The Tesorería de la Federación offices in occupied or contested ports issued paper partly to pay troops and partly to maintain some semblance of fiscal order in towns where coin had vanished from circulation almost entirely.
Lit. La Nacional — the Mazatlán printing house run by the Díaz de León family — produced several of these regional emergency issues. The firm was a commercial lithographer, not a security printer, and the notes reflect that: authentication features are minimal.