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5 Pesos El Estado Libre y Soberano de Sinaloa
| Issuer | El Estado Libre y Soberano de Sinaloa |
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| Year | 1915 |
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| Value | 5 Pesos |
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| Obverse description | Black letterpress on an orange underprint with red serial numbers. At the left margin, a laureate portrait bust of Benito Juárez is paired with a topless allegorical female figure bearing a sword, while a wreathed bust of Francisco I. Madero occupies the right. The central text block carries the denomination and the decree legend in bold letterpress. |
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| Obverse lettering | EL ESTADO LIBRE Y SOBERANO DE SINALOA PAGARÁ EL PORTADOR EN EFECTIVO CINCO PESOS CONFORME AL DECRETO FECHA 22 DE FEBRERO 1914 SAN BLAS, SIN. (Translation: The Free and Sovereign State of Sinaloa will pay the bearer in cash Five Pesos conforming to the decree dated 22 February 1914. San Blas, Sinaloa) |
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Sinaloa's 1915 emission came out of the Constitutional forces' need to finance military operations during the Mexican Revolution, when individual states and regional commanders were issuing their own currency at a pace that made federal oversight essentially meaningless. Britton & Rey, a San Francisco lithography firm better known for maps and certificates, handled a surprising volume of Mexican revolutionary paper during this period — their California address made them accessible to northern Mexican factions with cross-border commercial ties.
The note circulated in a region where competing emissions from Sonora, Chihuahua, and Durango were simultaneously in play, creating chronic valuation confusion among merchants and soldiers alike.