20 Pesos Gobierno Provisional de Mexico

The Gobierno Provisional de México notes issued from Veracruz in 1914 were instruments of Carranza's constitutionalist administration, printed hurriedly to fund military operations against the Huerta regime. Carranza had established his provisional government headquarters at Veracruz after U.S. forces occupied the port city in April 1914 — an occupation that, ironically, had cut off Huerta's arms supply and accelerated his eventual fall.

The series suffered immediate credibility problems. Regional commanders throughout Mexico were simultaneously issuing their own competing paper, and ordinary Mexicans had learned from hard experience to be skeptical of revolutionary currency. Forced acceptance at face value was common; actual purchasing power was another matter entirely.

Pick S1113 sits within a large and poorly documented family of Carrancista issues, and distinguishing genuine examples from the numerous contemporary counterfeits remains a genuine attribution challenge.