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5 Pesos Gobierno Provisional de México
| Issuer | Gobierno Provisional de México |
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| Year | 1914 |
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| Reference(s) | P#S702 |
| Obverse description | Black letterpress on green guilloche underprint with red overprint and red serial numbers. At left, a vignette of a seated Liberty figure holding a plaque in her right hand and an olive branch in her left. At centre, the Mexican national arms — an eagle with a serpent in its beak perched on a nopal cactus rising from Lake Texcoco — with the volcanoes Popocatépetl and Iztaccíhuatl visible in the background. |
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| Reverse description | Printed entirely in green with intricate guilloche lacework filling the field. At centre, a large oval vignette reproduces the obverse of a Mexican 1 Peso coin ("REPUBLICA MEXICANA", dated 1908) set within a sunburst rosette. Two red circular government validation seals are applied at upper left and upper right, each bearing an eagle device. Denomination numerals "5" appear in the four corners within rosette frames, and two text cartouches flank the central vignette carrying the circulation legend. |
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The Gobierno Provisional de México — Victoriano Huerta's administration — issued a flood of paper currency in 1914 as the regime's finances collapsed under pressure from Constitutionalist forces. These notes were part of a broader desperation issue; with customs revenues seized and foreign credit exhausted, provisional paper became the primary tool for paying troops and government obligations. Confidence in it was nearly zero from the outset.
By late 1914, Carranza's forces had declared all Huertista currency null and void. Much of it was repudiated and burned, which complicates survival rates across the series.