$10 dos caritas - Maverick-Clarke

These were 150,000 notes printed by Maverick-Clarke and dispatched on 8 May 1914. These were Series D, numbered 1 to 150000.

SAMPLE

M924n $10 overprinted 'SAMPLE'

This note, if the result of an official enquiry or commission, dates from a time when it was considered having just Chao's signature printed on the note.

Maverick-Clarke issue

These notes were used for several different issues.

M924a $10 

(a) The earliest had hand signatures for Treasurer Vargas and Interventor Muñoz and a circular black Tesorería seal on the back. Some notes must have been issued between 8 May and 22 May, when the Ejército Constitucionalista stamp began to be applied, but others might have been issued alongside the notes (below) with the Ejército Constitucionalista stamp. One group is known with serial numbers between 0233 and 3879, another with 16437 and another with higher numbers between 22550 and 29835.

M924b $10 

(b) The next had a scalloped blue Ejército Constitucionalista seal and Type 1 vertical control letters on face and circular black Tesorería seal on back. The Ejército Constitucionalista seal will have been applied in Ciudad Juárez between 22 May and 10 June 1914. Only I-P P-I and II-R R-II are known. These were also hand signed. 

M924d $10 

(c) circular black Tesorería seal on back. Because these have printed signatures, it is assumed that they are later than the hand signed issues. Muñoz’ signature is larger than his hand signature and the printed signature on later issues.

M924c $10 

(d) circular rubber blue/black Tesorería seal on face. It appears that there was more than one stamp used, though the severity of the strike could also explain differences in appearance. Again these have small printed signatures, with Muñoz’ signature larger than other examples. The numbers range from 35743 (example perforated) to 131929.

Although there is an obvious progression, these frequent changes cannot have inspired confidence amongst holders.

By May 1915 people in Zacatecas were refusing to accept $1, $5 and $10 dos caritas with a black rubber seal, claiming they were counterfeit, and on 24 May the government printed a thousand circulars^{[text needed]} ordering their acceptance^{AMZ, caja 14, exp 17, folio 24}.

The January 1916 report to the Carrancista government, which only listed the Maverick-Clarke issues, states that the Villistas began to overstamp the $10 notes on 16 May 1915 and finished on 1 June 1915^{AGN, Fondo Gobernación Periodo Revolucionario, caja 61, exp 24} but much of the data in this report is wrong.