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25 Centavos El Estado de Sonora
| Issuer | State of Sonora |
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| Year | 1915 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Black on white paper with a grey underprint signature bar at base; portrait vignettes of Francisco I. Madero at left and José María Pino Suárez at right flank a large central numeral 25, with smaller 25 numerals at each corner. Serial numbers printed in red appear at upper left and upper right, with a series letter also in red. |
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| Reverse description | Green overall; large numeral 25 guilloche panels appear at left and right, flanking a central Mexican eagle perched on a cactus devouring a serpent. A black official seal is positioned at upper left. |
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Sonora's state government issued this note under the authority of Governor José María Maytorena during the revolutionary period, when the collapse of federal monetary infrastructure forced individual Mexican states to print their own emergency currency. Sonora was among the better-resourced issuers precisely because of its cross-border relationship with Arizona — American commercial confidence in the state translated directly into a contract with ABNC, an unusually high-quality printer for a regional emergency issue.
The choice of American Bank Note Company gave Sonoran currency a credibility that most revolutionary-era Mexican paper lacked entirely. Counterfeit pressure was still a serious problem nonetheless, as competing factions printed rival scrip throughout the north.