50 Centavos Provisional Government, Short Truncation with Closed Lapels, Lead

The Provisional Government of Oaxaca operated in deliberate defiance of Carranza's Constitutionalist authority during the Mexican Revolution, issuing its own coinage after the state declared itself a sovereign entity in 1915. The Oaxacan issues are among the most compositionally varied emergency coinages of the entire revolutionary period — struck in whatever metal was locally available, which accounts for the lead composition here.

The die varieties for this type are genuinely consequential, not merely academic. "Short truncation" and "closed lapels" are diagnostics that place this piece within a specific, documented subset of the Oaxacan 50 Centavos family, and misidentification is common among generalists unfamiliar with the series.