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5 Pesos El Estado de Sonora
| Issuer | State of Sonora |
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| Year | 1913 |
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| Currency | Peso (1863-1992) |
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| Reverse description | Blue letterpress on light blue underprint; issuer name in two lines divided by a central five-pointed star, with face value ($5.00) in numerals flanking the star on each side. Design is typographic with no pictorial vignette. |
| Reverse lettering | ESTADO $5.00 ★ SONORA (Translation: State of Sonora) |
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Sonora's 1913 state issues emerged from a direct confrontation between Governor Maytorena and the federal center — after Victoriano Huerta's coup, Sonora refused to recognize the new government and effectively functioned as a breakaway administration, printing its own currency to meet payroll and maintain the anti-Huerta resistance. Maytorena's own signature on these notes was not ceremonial; he was the political architect of Sonora's defiance.
Juan Sánchez Azcona, the co-signer, was a journalist and Maderista loyalist who served as Maytorena's secretary of government — an unusual choice for a signatory, reflecting how improvised the administration's financial apparatus genuinely was. The Imprenta del Estado had no specialized banknote equipment, and that shows in the printing quality.