Counterfeit $20 dos caritas

There are some references to conterfeit $20 dos caritas.

On 28 March 1915 Manuel Carrasco handed in $880 in counterfeit $20 Series E dos caritas to the police in Parral. The serial numbers were 122021, 122022, 122025, 122026, 122033, 122035 to 122058, 122060, 122062, 122070, 313024, 313041 to 313048, 313051, 313052 and 313054^{AMP, Gobierno, Jefatura Politica y Presidencia Municipal, Libros minutarios, AL1213-000-109}.

In one incident in April 1915 the Agencia Comercial y Financiera in Ciudad Juárez sent Sonora governor Maytorena a $20 Series E note with a Fuerzas del Estado resello, complaining that it was false. Maytorena noted that the Tesorería General in Chihuahua had said that it was genuine^{JMM papers, box 5, folder 5, item 23 Reynaldo (sic) E. Navarro to José Maytorena, 7 April 1915}.

In another incident in the same month the Nogales commission agents, J. J. Goodman and Co. had some packets of $20 notes that they had submitted to Remigio Montoya for validation refused. Montoya sent one of the note, E 122403, to the Tesorería General in Chihuahua for checking and the Tesorería replied that it was genuine but Montoya still refused to stamp the other notes ^{JMM papers, box 5, folder 6, item 23 Goodman and Co. to Sebastián Vargas, 22 April 1915; JMM papers, box 5, folder 6, item 24 Goodman and Co. to Maytorena, 22 April 1915}. From the serial number (and comparison with the Parral notes above) it is probable that Montoya was correct, so even the Tesorería General in Chihuahua nodded.

Counterfeit $20 dos caritas Type 1

This example of Type 1 has contemporary annotations on the differences. It comes from the ‘Symmetrical school’ as it ‘corrects’ the top border.

These were produced over time as they are known as a Series E with black circular Tesorería seal and control letters N-R-S and R-VXC, and red circular Tesorería seal and letters P-VLM, and as a Series K with black scalloped Tesorería seal and letters T-ERU.