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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 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | LA TESORERIA DE LA FEDERACION Pagará al portador de acuerdo con la autorización dada a esta Jefatura en 6 de Septiembre del 1913, la cantidad de DOS PESOS en efectivo GUAYMAS, SONORA, MARZO 16 DE 1914 (Translation: The Treasury of the Federation / Will pay to the bearer, in accordance with the authorization given to this Office on September 6, 1913, the sum of TWO PESOS in cash / Guaymas, Sonora, March 16, 1914) |
| Reverse description | Printed entirely in red-orange on plain paper, the reverse is dominated by a central landscape vignette of the port town of Guaymas seen from the water, with sailing vessels in the foreground and a mountain range rising behind the town's skyline. The vignette is enclosed within an elaborate rococo-style ornamental border with scrollwork and foliate corner medallions. The numeral '2' appears in large white relief at each lateral margin. The printer's imprint 'LIT. LA NACIONAL. – MAZATLAN. A. DIAZ DE LEON E HIJOS' runs along the bottom edge. |
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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.