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20 Centavos Iquitos Revolutionary Government
| Issuer | Loreto, Federal State of |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Black letterpress printing on a host note (N° 278611 obverse), with a red overprint modifying the face value in both numerals and letters. A vignette of a Native American figure faces left, with the face value in numerals repeated at all four corners and along the side borders, and rendered in letters in a text panel below the vignette. Issuing place and date appear at lower left and right, with a red series designation at lower right, a four-digit red serial number at lower left, and two manuscript signatures with printed titles beneath them. |
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| Obverse lettering | 1 CHEQUE PROVISIONAL DE CIRCULACION FORZOSA EMITIDO CON LA GARANTIA DE LA DEUDA DEL ESTADO, RENTAS FISCALES Y DEPARTAMENTALES IQUITOS, 1º DE OCTUBRE 1921 UN SOL SERIE A N° 4327 CAP. JEFE POLITICO Y MILITAR ADMOR. DE LA ADUANA VALE 20 CTVS. (Translation: Provisional check of compelled circulation, issued with the guarantee of the State Debt, Tax and Departmental rents Iquitos October 1st., 1921 Captain Political and Military Chief Manager of the Custom House Valid for 20 Cents.) |
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In 1921, the Peruvian Amazon department of Loreto briefly declared itself an autonomous federal state under a separatist movement led by Cervantes and backed by regional elites resentful of Lima's centralized authority. This note — printed locally by El Oriente, the Iquitos newspaper — is direct evidence of how thin the resources of that provisional government actually were: a regional press, not a security printer, producing emergency scrip for a rebellion that collapsed within months.
The reliance on El Oriente as printer makes genuine examples relatively easy to counterfeit in retrospect, and authentication depends heavily on paper stock and ink consistency specific to that press.