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5 Pesos Gobierno Provisional De Mexico
| Issuer | Gobierno Provisional de Mexico, Tesorería General de Veracruz |
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| Year | 1914 |
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| Currency | Peso (1863-1992) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse carries a central vignette of a classical allegorical female figure standing to the left beside a column, with a landscape of mountains and a lake in the background; the Mexican eagle with serpent appears at centre. The heading GOBIERNO PROVISIONAL DE MEXICO arches across the top, with VERACRUZ and the date below. Large ornate numeral 5 panels appear at left and right, with series and serial number in red ink at lower left, and two manuscript signatures with printed title lines below. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in green and displays an elaborate guilloche oval at centre surrounded by symmetrical lathe-work scrollwork. Two rectangular text panels flanking the central oval carry the legislative reference inscription. A red circular resello (validation stamp) of the Secretaría de Hacienda appears at upper left, and a second black resello reading RESELLADO is visible at upper right. |
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The Gobierno Provisional de México was Victoriano Huerta's administration, but this Tesorería General de Veracruz issue belongs to the opposing Constitutionalist movement under Venustiano Carranza, who established his provisional government at Veracruz after Huerta's forces controlled Mexico City. In 1914 alone, dozens of competing revolutionary factions were printing their own currency, and Carranza's treasury notes were explicitly designed to assert fiscal legitimacy — a deliberate challenge to Huerta's federally issued paper.
Counterfeiting of Constitutionalist notes was rampant during this period, and genuine examples can be difficult to authenticate without reference to known plate characteristics.