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20 Pesos Emiliano Zapata Salazar
| Issuer | Banco de México |
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| Year | 2019 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#992 |
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| Reverse description | The nickel brass centre presents a stylised portrait bust of Emiliano Zapata Salazar facing slightly left, wearing his characteristic wide-brimmed sombrero, with the revolutionary motto TIERRA Y LIBERTAD inscribed across the hat brim. A figure of a campesino ploughing with an ox is depicted in the lower left field, accompanied by radiating lines suggestive of sunrise, evoking agrarian reform. A latent image security feature appears as a rectangular element to the right of the portrait. The denomination $20 is prominently displayed in large numerals at the bottom of the centre, flanked by the commemorative dates 1919 and 2019 marking the centenary of Zapata's death. The aluminium bronze ring carries the legend EMILIANO ZAPATA SALAZAR arcing around the upper field, with the mint mark Mo at the left. |
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Zapata was assassinated in April 1919 at the Hacienda de Chinameca, ambushed by Carrancista forces under Colonel Jesús Guajardo — making this 2019 coin a centennial issue marking exactly one hundred years since his death. His appearance on circulating coinage is politically charged even now; Zapata's agrarian movement was explicitly anti-capitalist, and memorializing him on currency issued by a central bank carries an irony that Mexican commentators have noted more than once.