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50 Centavos La Jefatura de Hacienda en el Estado de Sonora
| Issuer | Jefatura de Hacienda en el Estado de Sonora |
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| Year | 1914 |
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| Size | 114 × 56 mm |
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| Obverse description | Black letterpress text on a green and brown guilloche underprint, with a large pale green '50' denomination numeral as a central underprint element. A blue circular seal appears to the left of centre, and the serial number is printed in black to the upper right. Decorative corner ornaments and a fine scrollwork border frame the note, with the printer's imprint 'IMP. C. D. TAYLOR E HIJO. GUAYMAS' at the foot. The heading 'MONEDA PROVISIONAL' appears in the upper right field. |
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| Reverse description | Unprinted plain paper reverse with a violet ink circular rubber stamp reading 'DIVISION DE...' surmounted by a ribbon banner, applied to the upper left area. A handwritten ink signature appears in the centre-right field. No other design elements are present. |
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Sonora's Hacienda department resorted to issuing its own fractional currency in 1914 because the Mexican Revolution had so thoroughly disrupted the coin supply that small-denomination transactions had become nearly impossible across the northwest. These notes were a local fiscal stopgap, not an instrument of any recognized banking authority. The Taylor press in Guaymas — a commercial job printer, not a specialist currency house — produced the series, which shows in the workmanship.
Pérez Ojeda served as Jefe de Hacienda under the Sonoran government aligned with Carranza's Constitutionalist faction.