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50 Centavos Emiliano Zapata
| Issuer | State of Morelos |
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| Year | 1915 |
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| Diameter | 28 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | REPUBLICA MEXICANA |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The State of Morelos issued copper coinage in 1915 under Zapata's Ejército Libertador del Sur as a direct response to the near-total collapse of usable currency in revolutionary Mexico. Counterfeiting and hoarding had gutted confidence in paper money, and the Zapatista leadership — largely agrarian and deeply skeptical of banking institutions — preferred metal. These coins were struck with primitive equipment at improvised facilities, and the results vary wildly in quality and centering.
KM#703 is frequently encountered with crude planchet preparation and off-center dies, not from neglect but from the material conditions of insurgent minting in a state under constant military pressure from Carrancista forces.