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50 Centavos El Estado Libre y Soberano de Sinaloa
| Issuer | State of Sinaloa |
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| Year | 1915 |
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| Currency | Peso (1915) |
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| Obverse description | Black letterpress on blue underprint with red serial numbers. At left, a laureate bust of Benito Juárez is flanked by a topless allegorical female figure holding a sword; at right, a laureate bust of Francisco I. Madero is framed within an oak wreath. The overall layout is typical of Mexican state emergency issue design, with text panels carrying decree and payment obligations. |
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| Reverse description | Printed in orange. A panoramic vignette of Culiacán appears at left and a panoramic vignette of Mazatlán at right, flanking a central composition comprising an allegory of Liberty, the coat of arms of Mexico, and an allegory of Justice. |
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Sinaloa's 1915 fractional issues were produced during the Mexican Revolution's most fragmented phase, when state and local authorities across the republic were printing their own paper to fill the vacuum left by collapsing federal currency. Britton & Rey, a San Francisco lithographic firm better known for maps and stock certificates, handled several Mexican state commissions during this period — competent commercial work, not bank-note engraving in the traditional sense.
The S1042 is among the more obscure Sinaloa emissions, and surviving examples frequently show foxing or humidity damage consistent with storage conditions in the Pacific coastal region.