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20 Pesos El Estado de Chihuahua
| Issuer | State of Chihuahua |
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| Year | 1915 |
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| Printer | Norris Peters Co., Washington, United States |
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| Obverse description | Printed in black and orange with red serial numbers, the obverse presents portrait vignettes of Francisco I. Madero at left and Abraham González Casavantes at right, flanking the central text block. The underprint is executed in orange, with the denomination and issuing authority legends rendered in black letterpress. |
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| Reverse description | Printed primarily in orange with black control letters and a black seal, the reverse carries a central architectural vignette of the Government Palace (Palacio de Gobierno) of Chihuahua city, flanked on either side by heraldic griffon figures. The overall composition is framed by a guilloche border with the denomination indicated in the corners. |
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Chihuahua was one of the few Mexican states with sufficient administrative infrastructure to sustain its own currency during the Revolution, and by 1915 it had been doing so for several years under Villista control. The Norris Peters Co. in Washington was a competent commercial lithographer that handled government contract work — their name appears on several revolutionary-era Mexican issues, though they were printers for hire, not specialists in security printing.
1915 was the year Villa's military fortunes began to collapse. Notes from this late Chihuahua series circulated under increasingly chaotic conditions and were frequently refused at par outside Villista-controlled territory.