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5 Pesos El Estado de Durango
| Issuer | Estado de Durango |
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| Year | 1914 |
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| Reference(s) | P#S732 |
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| Obverse lettering | DURANGO, AGOSTO DE 1914 El Estado de Durango Pagará al portador la cantidad de CINCO 5 PESOS Sº INTERINO. EL GOBERNADOR. EL Dº GRAL DE RENTAS. |
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| Reverse lettering | Esta emisión esta autorizada por el Primer Jefe del Ejército Constitucionalista. Sus billetes serán canjeados a la par por la moneda que emita el Gobierno Constitucional de la República. |
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Durango's state government issued its own emergency currency in 1914 as Revolutionary forces fractured central banking authority across Mexico. The Constitutionalist uprising against Huerta had effectively severed Durango from Federal monetary supply, and local authorities — like dozens of other Mexican states that year — printed their own notes to meet payroll and commerce.
The S-prefixed Pick number places this firmly in the Mexican Revolutionary provisional issues, a category notorious for wide variation in print quality, paper stock, and even denomination spelling across successive runs. Forgeries circulated alongside genuine issues during and after the Revolution, complicating authentication ever since.