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50 Centavos State of Durango
| Issuer | State of Durango |
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| Year | 1914 |
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| Value | 50 Centavos (0.50) |
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| Obverse lettering | EL ESTADO DE DURANGO PAGARA AL PORTADOR LA CANTIDAD DE 50 CENTAVOS DURANGO, DICIEMBRE DE 1914 SERIE D Nº 7289 2 IL CONFORME AL DECRETO DE 12 DE DICIEMBRE DE 1913 EL GOBERNADOR PROV: EL DIRECTR. GRAL. DE RENTAS: SECR° DE GOB°: LIT - TLR M. GOMEZ - DUR MEX (Translation: The Durango State will pay to bearer the amount of 50 Cents. Durango, December, 1914. As per the Decree from December 12th., 1913 The Provisional Governor, The General Director of Finance, Secretary of Government. Lithography workshop M. Gómez, Durango, México.) |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in black and carries a central vignette of the Mexican national arms — an eagle perched upon a prickly-pear cactus with a serpent clasped in its beak — flanked on both sides by the face value expressed in numerals and text. |
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The State of Durango issued paper currency in 1914 under the authority granted by the revolutionary government framework that allowed individual Mexican states to print their own emergency money during the upheaval of the Constitutional period. Durango was firmly under Constitutionalist control by mid-1914, and local emission was a practical necessity — federal currency had collapsed in credibility and coin was being hoarded aggressively throughout the north.
Litografía M. Gómez was a local Durango print shop, not a specialist security printer. That origin shows in surviving examples, which frequently display uneven ink distribution and minor registration drift — features of the press, not damage.