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50 Centavos Provisional Government
| Issuer | State of Oaxaca |
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| Year | 1915 |
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| Value | 50 Centavos (0.50) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
| Obverse lettering | ESTADO L. Y S. DE OAXACA *1915* |
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The State of Oaxaca struck its own coinage during the Mexican Revolution after the state government, under Governor José Inés Dávila, refused to recognize Carranza's Constitutionalist authority and declared itself a sovereign entity in 1915. These provisional issues were a direct assertion of regional autonomy at a moment when central monetary authority had effectively collapsed — multiple factions were simultaneously issuing currency, and much of it was refused at gunpoint in the markets of rival-controlled territories.
Oaxacan silver issues are notably cruder in execution than contemporary federal strikes, a consequence of improvised minting infrastructure rather than any shortage of the metal itself.