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5 Centavos Gobierno Provisional de Zacatecas
| Issuer | Gobierno Provisional de Zacatecas |
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| Year | 1914 |
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| Size | 55 × 28 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | CINCO CENTAVOS GOBIERNO PROVISIONAL DE ZACATECAS TRANSITORIO TRANSITORIO 5 5 |
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| Reverse lettering | LA OFICINA REGULADORA DEL COMERCIO, CINCO CENTAVOS CINCO CINCO CAMBIA A LA VISTA ESTA MONEDA, POR BILLETES DE CIRCULACION LEGAL. |
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Zacatecas in 1914 was a Constitutionalist stronghold, and the silver shortage created by the revolutionary upheaval forced dozens of local authorities to issue their own fractional paper — hence this note's existence. The Gobierno Provisional operated under Pancho Villa's División del Norte after the decisive Battle of Zacatecas in June 1914, one of the bloodiest engagements of the entire Mexican Revolution.
The deep pink pasteboard construction is characteristic of emergency fractional issues from this region, where proper banknote paper was simply unavailable. Counterfeiting was less of a concern than getting anything into circulation at all.