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50 Centavos State of Durango
| Issuer | State of Durango |
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| Year | 1914 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Black letterpress on light blue underprint; the issuer's name arches across the top, with the face value rendered in both numerals and text at centre. A single-letter series prefix appears at left, five-digit red serial number at centre, and alphanumeric control codes at centre-left and centre-right; the issuing place and date are inscribed at upper right, with three manuscript signatures accompanied by their respective title legends along the lower margin. The lithographer's imprint appears at the foot of the note. |
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| 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.