$1 dos caritas - Maverick-Clarke

These were 750,000 notes printed by Maverick-Clarke and dispatched on 8 May 1914. These were series A and had the red scalloped Ejército Constitucionalista seal and Type 1 vertical control letters on the face and circular black Tesorería seal on the back. The controls are a Roman numeral and letter on either side, e.g. I-C C-I, II-O O-II. The Roman numeral progresses every 10,000 notes and reaches LXXIV and the corresponding letters spell CONSTITUCION Y REFORMAS CONSTITUCION Y REFORMAS CONSTITUCION Y REFORMAS CONSTUCION Y (The TI of the fourth CONSTITUCION was missed out).

It is not known where the controls began. At present the lowest known control is XIV-R R-XIV, and notes with serial numbers up to 89405 are known without controls.

The numbering did not go completely smoothly. There was a transposition with the numbers 240001-250000 and 250001-26000. One sequence (740001-750000) has LXXXIV-Y on the left but the correct Y-LXXIV on the right.

The most noticeable difference between these Maverick-Clarke notes and later notes are that on the back the top border is a mirror image centred on the centre of the note and thus has eleven ‘little flowers’ (florecitas) and the side panels have three pointed designs. Later notes had an asymmetrical top, twelve florecitas and two ‘points’. Surprisingly, it was not until 2 February 1915 that Lazaro de la Garza noticed these differences and wrote to Navarro for an explanation as to why the manufacturers had made these changes^{LG papers, 6-E-6, letter from de la Garza, El Paso, to Navarro, Washington, 2 February 1915. However, if de la Garza knew he was comparing two different Norris Peters notes (see the second Norris Peters printing), he had more justification}.

These have larger printed signatures of Treasurer Vargas and Interventor Muñoz than later issues.

It is presumed that the occasional note that has only a black Tesorería seal on the back were either issued during the middle of May before the Ejército Constitucionalist validation or slipped through without receiving the Ejército Constitucionalista overstamp.

These notes with black seals later came under suspicion. On 22 May 1915 the Zacatecas state government sent a circular to all the jefaturas políticas as the general public had been refusing to accept $1, $5, and $10 dos caritas with black rubber seals, on the pretext that they were counterfeit, but the government insisted on their acceptance, on pain of a fine^{Periódico Oficial, 29 May 1915}.