Issues from 1920

In 1920 there was a national shortage of small currency which the government tried to address with its issue of Comisión Monetaria vales. In Veracruz some organisations resorted to their own devices.

Misantla

Chapa-Chapa

This vale, dated March 1920, comes from a finca (probably a coffee plantation) in Chapachapa, Misantla.

It is for 25c, or a sixth of the day rate of $1.50.

Papantla

La Huaxteca

José Buil Belenguer (1875-1959) was born in Valencia, Spain and at the beginning of the 20th century arrived in Mexico to set up in Papantla. He was a surgeon and them from 1925 to 1940, ran a cinema.

These two notes of José Buil y Compañía date from April 1920.