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50 Centavos Gobierno Convencionista de Mexico
| Issuer | Gobierno Convencionista de Mexico |
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| Year | 1915 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Black intaglio print on orange and cream underprint, with red serial numbers. At left, an allegorical female vignette holds a sword in the right hand and scales in the left; at center, a pastoral farm scene with snow-capped mountains in the background; at right, the denomination rendered within an ornate guilloche panel. |
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| Reverse description | Purple letterpress print with a red seal. At center, a vignette of a 50 Centavo coin is printed reverse over obverse. The denomination numeral appears within oval cartouches at the left and right margins. |
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The Gobierno Convencionista was the short-lived administration backing the Convention of Aguascalientes, the revolutionary assembly that briefly united Villista and Zapatista factions against Carranza in late 1914. By the time these notes were printed in 1915, the coalition was already fracturing — Zapata had retreated to Morelos, Villa was overextended, and Carranza's Constitutionalist forces were gaining ground. The notes had a political life shorter than their print run.
ABNC produced fractional currency for several competing Mexican factions during this period, sometimes nearly simultaneously. The choice of a New York printer by a revolutionary government fighting for control of its own capital is a practical detail that says something about the infrastructure available to wartime administrations with uncertain territorial reach.