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20 Pesos Gobierno Provisional de México
| Issuer | Gobierno Provisional de México |
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| Year | 1914 |
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| Size | 186 × 83 mm |
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| Obverse description | Black letterpress print on yellow underprint with red overprint and red serial numbers. At left, a vignette of a seated Liberty figure holding a plaque in her right hand and an olive branch in her left. At centre, the Mexican national arms vignette with an eagle gripping a serpent in its beak, perched upon a nopal cactus rising from Lake Texcoco, with the volcanoes Popocatépetl and Ixtaccíhuatl visible in the background. |
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| Reverse lettering | ESTE BILLETE CIRCULARA DE ACUERDO CON EL DECRETO DE 19 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 1914 (Translation: This banknote will circulate in accordance with the decree of 19 September 1914) |
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The Gobierno Provisional de México was Victoriano Huerta's administration, which controlled the federal printing apparatus after the coup against Madero in February 1913. By 1914, with Constitutionalist forces advancing and the economy fragmenting badly, the revolutionary factions flooding the country with competing paper currencies made any single issue almost immediately suspect. Huerta's government fell in July 1914, and notes from this series were repudiated by Carranza's victorious forces shortly after.
Surviving examples often show heavy use — these circulated hard during a chaotic few months when they still had to.