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5 Pesos El Estado de Sinaloa
| Issuer | Estado Libre y Soberano de Sinaloa |
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| Year | 1913 |
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| Currency | Peso (1863-1992) |
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| Obverse lettering | SERIE L bis. $5.00 El Estado de Sinaloa, Pagara al portador $5.00 cinco pesos conforme con el Decreto No. 17. CULIACAN, SINALOA, DICIEMBRE 13 DE 1913. Felipe Riveros Gobernador José G. Heredia Srio. Tesorero Gral. |
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| Signature(s) | Felipe Riveros (Gobernador) and José G. Heredia (Secretario) |
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Sinaloa's 1913 emission was a product of the revolutionary fracture that shattered Mexico's financial system during the Constitutionalist uprising against Huerta. With federal currency collapsing in credibility across the northern states, individual governors issued their own paper — Sinaloa under Felipe Riveros being one of several who essentially monetized local political authority rather than banking infrastructure.
These state emissions were inherently short-lived and regionally trusted at best. Sinaloa's notes were superseded as Constitutionalist forces consolidated control and Carranza moved to standardize revolutionary currency, rendering most examples unredeemed.