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20 Pesos La Tesoreria General del Estado de Oaxaca
| Issuer | Tesorería General del Estado de Oaxaca |
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| Year | 1915 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Reverse description | Printed in green and brown; a portrait vignette of President Benito Juárez is positioned at right, accompanied by a green seal. The reverse carries the mandatory circulation decree text in a straightforward letterpress layout consistent with Revolutionary-period state emergency issues. |
| Reverse lettering | Este Títule de Crédito es de circulatión forzosa y tiene poder liberatorio ilimitado dentro del territorio del Estado de Oaxaca. DECRETO No. 5 DEL 10 DE JULIO DE 1915 (Translation: This Credit Title is of forced circulation and has unlimited releasing power within the territory of the State of Oaxaca. Decree number 5 of 10 July 1915.) |
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Oaxaca's state treasury began issuing its own paper currency in 1915 because the broader Mexican Revolutionary monetary collapse had made federal and other regional notes effectively worthless in day-to-day commerce. The Tesorería General del Estado de Oaxaca was one of dozens of subnational bodies forced into emergency emission — but Oaxaca's situation was compounded by the state's political alignment under Governor José Inés Dávila, who was attempting to maintain a degree of autonomy from both Carrancista and Villista pressures simultaneously.
The S959 series is among the more straightforward of the Oaxacan emissions, lacking the complex overprint histories that plague some contemporaneous issues from the same treasury.