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5 Centavos Estado de Jalisco
| Issuer | Dirección General de Rentas del Estado de Jalisco |
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| Year | 1915 |
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| In circulation to | Yes |
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| Obverse description | Green and brown letterpress note with the state arms as a central underprint vignette; the issuer's full title arches across the top, while the face value appears in both numerals and words flanking the arms. Three brown manuscript signatures with their respective titles occupy the lower zone, accompanied by a brown series letter at lower right and a six-digit red serial number at lower left; the issuing city and date are inscribed at lower center. |
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| Reverse lettering | 5 CINCO CENTAVOS (Translation: 5 Five Cents.) |
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Jalisco's Dirección General de Rentas stepped into note issuance in 1915 out of sheer necessity — the revolutionary period had so thoroughly disrupted the national money supply that state revenue offices, municipalities, and even individual businesses across Mexico began printing their own fractional currency. The centavo denominations were particularly critical; silver had vanished from circulation almost entirely, hoarded or melted, and small transactions had become genuinely difficult to conduct.
Printed locally in Guadalajara, this is fiscal emergency paper, not banking paper — a distinction that mattered legally and practically at the time.