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50 Centavos Buelna / Carrasco - Cast Coinage
| Issuer | State of Sinaloa |
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| Year | 1905-1918 |
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| Currency | Peso (1915) |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The cast silver coinage of Sinaloa emerged from the chaos of the Mexican Revolution, when federal supply lines collapsed and regional commanders requisitioned whatever silver they could melt. General Rafael Buelna and his associate Carrasco authorized these pieces as emergency military currency — cast rather than struck because proper minting infrastructure was unavailable in the field. The crude casting process means no two examples are dimensionally identical, and edge irregularities are expected rather than indicative of damage.
Buelna, known as "El Granito de Oro," was barely in his twenties when commanding Sinaloan revolutionary forces.