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TESORERÍA GENERAL DEL ESTADO – 6 |
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1 peso. approx. 142 x 72 mm. Front: Black on Green underprint. Back: BLANK with Large treasury seal stamp. |
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CHIH-40 Front: Serie A, Type 3 serial numbers. Back: Black treasury seal. |
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a. Imp. A PS553c Common. |
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b. Imp. B PS553a Common. |
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CHIH-41 Front: Serie B, Type 2 serial numbers. Back: Black treasury seal. |
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CHIH-42 Front: Serie C. Back: Black treasury seal. |
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a. Imp. A Common. |
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b. Imp. B Common. |
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a. Imp. A, Type 3 serial numbers. PS553c Common. |
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b. Imp. B, Type 2 serial numbers. PS553a Common. |
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CHIH-43 Front: Serie D. Back: Black treasury seal. |
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a. Imp. B, Type 3 serial numbers. PS553a Common. |
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b. Imp. C, Type 4 serial numbers. PS553b Common. |
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CHIH-44 Front: Serie E through M; O through U. Imp. B, Type 4 serial numbers. Back: Black treasury seal. PS553a Common. |
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CHIH-45 Front: Serie N, Imp. C, Type 4 serial numbers. |
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a. Back: Medium Purple treasury seal stamp. Common. |
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b. Back: Large Black treasury seal stamp. Common. |
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In 1915, General Villa ordered the production of a silver peso to support his faltering paper money. Struck at the mint at Chihuahua, production was too little and too late. Most of these coins wound up in the hands of Villa’s suppliers. |
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1 peso notes are known which bear the overprint REVALIDADO Por decreto de 17 de diciembre de 1914. PS553d Scarce 1 peso notes are known which bear a FALSO stamp. PS553e Scarce |
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Front: Serie B, NO imprint, Black on Blue underprinting. Blue underprinting is of the “leaf” type used only on Tesorería General 10 peso notes. Back: Black letters and denomination “Un Peso – $1 – Un Peso”. Validation Stamps as follows: “REPÚBLICA MEXICANA – EJÉRCITO LIBERTADOR – COMMANDANCIA“ “REPÚBLICA MEXICANA – EJÉRCITO LIBERTADOR – BRIGADA PACHECO – DETALL“ and Small Black treasury seal stamp “ESTADO LIBRE Y SOBERANO DE CHIHUAHUA - TESORERÍA GENERAL“. PS559 Rare |
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The origin of these notes has not been firmly established. They are not listed in the records published by the government of Chihuahua concerning the issue of paper money. They always bear the stamps of the Brigada Pacheco, one of the elements of General Emiliano Zapata’s Ejército Libertador del Sur. Zapata’s army was the only force in the Mexican Revolution to consistently use the appellation, “Liberation Army of the South”. These validation stamps are not known to appear on any other paper money of the revolution.
In May 1915, General Francisco Pacheco was appointed Minister of War by Conventionist President Roque González-Garza. González-Garza was closely allied with, and loyal to General Villa. Pacheco’s acceptance of the post caused General Zapata to suspect his loyalty.
A currency crisis in mid-1915 may have prompted Pacheco to seek authority to produce Villista notes in denominations of 1, 2, and 10 pesos, in order to pay his troops occupying Cuernavaca, Morelos and environs. The poor quality of the plates, the Chihuahua treasury seal and of the printing of these notes almost certainly excludes them from having been produced in Chihuahua. I suspect that issue of these notes in the name of the TESORERÍA GENERAL DEL ESTADO was approved by General Villa, through the good offices of President González-Garza, and that they were produced in Cuernavaca, in mid-1915.
This and later actions by General Pacheco led General Zapata to believe that he intended to defect — perhaps to Villa; perhaps to Carranza’s Constitutionalists. With Zapata’s approval, Pacheco was ambushed and assassinated in the spring of 1916. |
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CHIH-46 |