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5 Pesos Gobierno Provisional de Mexico
| Issuer | Gobierno Provisional de Mexico, Veracruz |
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| Year | 1914 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Black letterpress print on green and yellow guilloche underprint, with red serial numbers. A seated Liberty vignette at left holds a plaque in her right hand and an olive branch in her left; at centre, the Mexican national arms vignette shows an eagle grasping a serpent in its beak, perched on a nopal cactus rising from Lake Texcoco, with the twin volcanoes Popocatépetl and Ixtaccíhuatl rendered in the background. |
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| Reverse description | Printed entirely in green with intricate guilloche latticework filling the field, punctuated by denomination numeral '5' counters in each corner. A central oval medallion frames the vignette of a 1 Peso 'Un Peso' silver coin of the Mexican Republic (dated 1903), shown reverse-over-obverse. Flanking inscriptions appear in two rectangular panels to the left and right of the central medallion. A circular red 'Secretaria de Hacienda – Veracruz' official control stamp is applied at upper left. |
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The Gobierno Provisional de México was Victoriano Huerta's rival administration — specifically, this refers to the Constitutionalist forces under Venustiano Carranza, who established a provisional government at Veracruz after seizing the customs house there in 1914. The port city's fiscal revenues were the financial backbone of the Constitutionalist war effort, and emergency paper emissions like this one were the direct result of that cash dependency.
The revolutionary period produced an almost unmanageable proliferation of local and factional issues, and S1104 sits within a cluster of Veracruz-dated Constitutionalist notes whose actual print runs and issuing dates remain poorly documented. Counterfeiting of Constitutionalist paper was widespread enough that Carranza's government later invalidated and replaced large portions of its own currency.