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Coatepec

Veracruz CoatepecCoatepec is a town 14 kilometres south of Xalapa, located in the eastern slopes of the Pico de Orizaba, and famous for its coffee plantations.

Various merchants issued notes based on a similar design, all produced by the Tipografía El Siglo XX in TeoceloThe work numbers for these various issues can give a time sequence, thus
Antonio Viveros                        3272      19--
Vicente Sanchez Rebolledo     3303      1914
Vicente Sanchez Rebolledo     3322      1914
Antonio Viveros                        3346      1914
Antonio Viveros                        3371      19--
Maximiano Ortiz                        3395      19--
Alfonso Amores                        3418      191-
Benigno Neiro                          3427      191-
Vicente Sanchez Rebolledo     3461       8 August 1914
Miguel Andrade                        3773      15 February 1915
Maria Antonia M                       3919      15 April 1915
. They were to add to the amount of fractional money in circulation and would be exchangeable for banknotes (usually in multiples of five pesos).

Alfonso Amoros

  date on note from to total
number
total
value
 
10c           includes number 345

 

Antonio Viveros

  date on note from to total
number
total
value
 
5c 1 July 1914 1       includes numbers 16 to 83
10c 18 June 1914  1       includes number 81
50c 2 July 1914  1       includes numbers 84 to 94

 

These had both the signatures and the initials of Antonio Viveros.

Antonio Viveros was a rich businessman and judgeLa Opinión, 19 January 1911 sig Antonio Viveros
initials Antonio Viveros

 

Benigno Neira

  date on note from to total
number
total
value
 
10c           includes number 0584

Maximiano Ortiz

  date on note from to total
number
total
value
 
5c 18 June 1914         includes number 0292

 

These are signed by Maximiano Ortíz.

Maximiliano (sic) Ortíz Rivera had a grocery shop on the corner of calle Jiménez del Campillo and calle Galeana (now Constitución), where he also sold coffee from his finca “Columbia”.

 

sig Max Ortiz