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25 Centavos El Estado Libre y Soberano de Sinaloa
| Issuer | Estado Libre y Soberano de Sinaloa |
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| Year | 1915 |
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| Currency | Peso (1915) |
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| Obverse description | Black letterpress on orange underprint with red serial number. At left, a laureate bust of Benito Juárez within a laurel wreath, flanked by a topless allegorical female figure holding a sword; at right, a bust of Francisco I. Madero within an oak wreath. Inscriptions surrounding the central vignette denote the issuing authority, denomination, and authorizing decree. |
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| Reverse description | Green letterpress. The composition is arranged horizontally across the note: at far left, a panoramic vignette of Culiacán; followed by an allegorical figure of Liberty; the coat of arms of Mexico at center; an allegorical figure of Justice; and at far right, a panoramic vignette of Mazatlán. |
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Sinaloa's 1915 fractional issues emerged from the same currency vacuum that produced hundreds of regional and municipal emergency notes across Mexico during the Constitutionalist period — the Carranza government had not yet consolidated monetary authority, and small-denomination coinage had effectively disappeared from circulation, hoarded or melted. State governments, municipalities, and even private businesses stepped in to fill the gap.
The S1041 is among the more obscure Sinaloa fractionals. Counterfeiting of these low-value state issues was rampant in 1915, and many were refused by merchants within months of issue.