La Tesoreria de la Junta Comercial de Chalchicomula

Chalchicomula (now Ciudad Serdán) is a city in the east of the state, just off the route from Puebla to Veracruz.

On 13 June 1916 the Junta Comercial, with the approval of  the Jefatura de Armas and Ayuntamiento^{[text needed]}, issued a series of notes to supplement Carranza’s infalsificables.

M3572 10c Junta Comercial

M3573 20c Junta Comercial

M3569a 50c Junta Comercial

M3570a $1 Junta Comercial

Some $1 notes are known overprinted ‘Solo Vale CINCUENTA CENTAVOS Papel Infalsificable’.

M3570b $1 Junta Comercial

The higher value notes carry the printed signatures of Raymundo Abasolo, as Presidente, José María de la Torre as Tesorero and Ricardo R. Sarmiento as Secretario, whilst the two lower values only had space for de la Torre’s facsimile.

Raymundo Abasolo was listed in a 1903-1904 directory as running a general store (tienda mixta).
José María de la Torre
Ricardo R. Sarmiento was a deputy to the state congress in 1917 and helped to draft the new Constitution.

M3574 50c Junta Comercial

 The above 50c note is similar to the 10c and 20c notes but there are various significant differences.
(1) it is of one colour.
(2) it is unnumbered.
(3) the '50' on the coin is poorly executed.
(4) a line on the face and the border on the reverse are composed of 'CINCUENTACINCUENTACINCUENTA' and so on.

These must question the note's authenticity.