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50 Pesos Gobierno Provisional de Mexico
| Issuer | Gobierno Provisional de Mexico, Veracruz |
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| Year | 1914 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Black letterpress print on green underprint with red serial numbers. At left, a vignette of a seated Liberty figure holding a plaque in her right hand and an olive branch in her left. At centre, the Mexican national coat of arms: an eagle clutching a serpent in its beak, perched on a nopal cactus rising from Lake Texcoco, with the twin volcanic peaks of Popocatépetl and Ixtaccihuatl rendered in the background. |
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| Reverse description | Green print with red and blue official seals. At centre, a vignette of a One Peso coin rendered reverse over obverse. |
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The Gobierno Provisional de México was the administration Venustiano Carranza established at Veracruz after refusing to recognize Victoriano Huerta's coup government in 1913. By 1914, with Huerta's forces still controlling Mexico City, Carranza's constitutionalist faction was issuing its own paper currency to fund military operations — this note belongs to that wartime fiscal machinery, not to any settled banking arrangement.
The series is known for significant variation in signatures and manuscript annotations, as provisional revolutionary administrations rarely maintained tight printing controls. Authentication of individual examples against documented signature combinations is worth doing before attribution.