Commercial concerns (west central Michoacán)

Cotija

A. M. Serafin, S. E. C.

Serafin 3c

	from	to	total number	total value
3c					includes number 1072

handsigned by Geronimo Gonzales and dated 20 January 19[ ] on the reverse.

Chavéz Cisneros records that in 1917 (the Year of Famine) there was also a shortage of small change, that was supplemented by fichas issued by businesses in the larger towns of Sahuayo, Jiquilpan and Cotija and the smaller town of San José de Gracía^{Esteban Chavéz Cisneros, Quitupán, Ensayo histórico y estadístico, Morelia, 1954, p. 152}.

Tinguindín

Francisco Rodríguez

Rodriguez 1c

Rodriguez 1c reverse

A 1c note dated 8 March 1915. Francisco Rodríguez ran La Ori[ ], situated in the Portal Morelos in Tinguindín.

José María Carranza

José María Carranza ran the "Imprenta Guadalupana".

Tacátzcuaro

Empresa de Desagüe de la Laguna de la Magdalena

Laguna 1

It was claimed in 1913 that when this company completed its work of drainage it would produce some 250,000 hectolitres of maize or garbanzo and a good quantity of beans. In July 1913 its workers complained that the owner, Emiliano Guizar Valencia, was only paying them when it pleased him, blaming the revolutionaries, although he had plenty of money^{El Independiente, 8 July 1913}.

This note from a later period, printed by M. Iguíniz in Guadalajara, was valid for two months and redeemable in infalsificables or their equivalence. Dick Long in his November 1974 auction list a uniface proof in red and a uniface proof in light green as well as the issued note.

Zacán

Gerardo G. Martínez

This 20c note, for Gerardo G. Martinez, was signed by the paymaster (pagador), [ ] Campos^{[identification needed]}.

[ ] Campos^{[identification needed]}

Purépero

We know of a series of notes issued by merchants in Purépero from Abril 1915 to February 1916 to counter a lack of small change.

David Fernández C.

David Fernández C., as this note states, was a comerciante. We know of a 20c note, dated 11 April 1915 and printed by the Tipografia Experiencia of Luis Grecián.

	series	from	to	total number	total value
20c	CH					includes number 0654

Joaquín Moreno

	from	to	total number	total value
10c

The date stamp is probably of Melesio Moreno.

Eliseo C. Melgoza

Melgoza 20c

Melgoza 20c reverse

	series	from	to	total number	total value
20c	E					includes number 0481

Eliseo C. Melgoza ran "La Argentina". Eliseo C. Melgoza y Cía. was established in Purépero by December 1901. In April 1913 Eliseo was presidente of the Circulo Católico de Purépero.

Ramón C. García

	from	to	total number	total value
50c

J. R. Heredia

La Virgen

La Virgen is located in the municipality of Zacapú.

La Sociedad de Obreros

Sociedad 1c

Sociedad 2c

Sociedad 5c

Sociedad 10c

Sociedad 20c

	from	to	total number	total value
1c					includes numbers 209^{CNBanxico #11565} to 4574
2c					includes number 192^{CNBanxico #11566} to 321
5c					includes numbers 208 to ^{CNBanxico #11568}
10c					includes number 388
20c					includes numbers 160 to 965^{CNBanxico #11569}

Another issue with the date 20 March 1915

Sociedad 20c 2

Sociedad 50c

	from	to	total number	total value
5c					includes number^{CNBanxico #11567}
20c					includes numbers 1022^{CNBanxico #5165} to 1297
50c

and another with the date 17 April 1915

	from	to	total number	total value
1c					includes number 564^{CNBanxico #5164}
50c

"La Unión Mercantil" Sociedad de Obreros

Union Mercantil 5c

Union Mercantil 10c

	from	to	total number	total value
5c
10c					includes number 14

Zacapú

M. Zubiri y Cia.

Zubiri 10c

Zubiri 10c reverse

Zubiri 20c

Rafael García Jaso acquired the rancho El Madroño which he later subrented to the Spaniard Manuel Subiri^{Archivo Particular de Miguel de la Trinidad Regalado, leg. A, 1915}.

Flores y Cipres

We know of a 10c light grey-cream cartón^{[image needed]} dated 1[0] June 191[5].