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20 Pesos El Estado de Chihuahua
| Issuer | State of Chihuahua |
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| Year | 1914 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Printed in black and orange with red serial numbers; a portrait vignette of Francisco I. Madero appears at left and Abraham González at right, flanking the central text panel. The note carries the issuing authority legend and denomination within a formal typographic layout characteristic of Mexican revolutionary-era emergency currency. |
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| Obverse lettering | EL ESTADO DE CHIHUAHUA PAGARA AL PORTADOR, EN EFECTIVO VEINTE PESOS, CONFORME AL DECRETO MILITAR DE FECHA 10 DE FEBRERO DE 1914 CHIHUAHUA, CHIHUAHUA, MEXICO. VEINTE PESOS (Translation: The State of Chihuahua will pay to the bearer in cash Twenty Pesos according to the military decree dated 10 February 1914) |
| Reverse description | Printed in orange with black control letters and a black seal; the central vignette presents an exterior view of the Government Palace (Palacio de Gobierno) of Chihuahua city, flanked on either side by heraldic griffon figures. The overall composition is typical of lithographic state-issue emergency notes of the Mexican Revolution period. |
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