Coatepec
Coatepec 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
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10c | includes number 345 |
Antonio Viveros
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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. | |
Benigno Neira
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10c | includes number 0584 |
Maximiano Ortiz
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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”.
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