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Gobierno Provisional de México Veracruz $1 notes

All were Series A. One group was dated 1 December 1914.

(1a) The first had imprint 'MEXICO OFICINA DEL GOBIERNO', title 'EL O. M. ENCARGADO DEL SRIA. DE HACIENDA, a solid pale green underprint with no pattern present, italic 'No' before serial numbers, '1's with curved base in the corners and a small ‘1’ in the denomination guilloche.

(1b) These were similar except for a Roman 'No'.

GPV 1 105280

GPV 1 105280 reverse

(2) The next had imprint 'MEXICO OFICINA DEL GOBIERNO', title 'EL O. M. ENCARGADO DEL SRIA. DE HACIENDA, underprint Type 2, large '1' in the denomination guilloche, flat base ‘1’s on the face and curved base ‘1’s on the reverse.

(3) The next had imprint 'OFICINA DEL GOBIERNO', title 'EL O. M. ENCARGADO DEL SRIA. DE HACIENDA',  underprint Type 2 and flat base ‘1’s on front and reverse

(4) Finally the next had flat base ‘1’s on the front and curved base ‘1’s on the back

(5) Another group was dated 5 February 1915. Some 24 million notes were printed by the Parsons Trading Company in New York. These had imprint 'MEXICO OFICINA DEL GOBIERNO', title 'P.O.DEL SRIO. EL S. S.', underprint Type 1, curved ‘1’s front and reverse, and were numbered from 6000000 to 30000000.

(6) The next were similar but had suffix “U” following the serial number.

GPV 1 8648186

GPV 1 8648186

Anastasio Rojas, in his report, records that up to 30 April 1915 the Oficina Impresora de Billetes in Veracruz had printed 1,410,000 $1 notes (16,000 in December 1914, 372,000 in January 1915, 387,000 in February and 635,000 in April). A further 24,000,000 had been printed by the Parsons Trading Company in New York. Finally the “Madero” press had produced 773,070 notes, and 42, 474 notes were still in the office2,474 in Folio y Corte and 40,000 in Revisión y Entrega. After acknowledging 1,635,000 notes printed in Mexico City, this left 2,139,456 notes to make up the decreed sum of $30,000,000CEHM, Fondo-XXI, carpeta 39, legajo 4265.

Date of issue Date on note Series from to total
number
total
value
Comment
  1 December 1914 A       $                   small 1 in denomination guilloche, Italic 'No.'
includes numbers 85893 
          small 1 in denomination guilloche, Roman 'No.'
includes numbers 105280CNBanxico #12244
          large 1 in denomination guilloche, MEXICO OFICINA DEL GOBIERNO
includes numbers 154297 to 588952CNBanxico #12245
          large 1 in denomination guilloche, OFICINA DEL GOBIERNO
includes numbers 1954842CNBanxico #2339 to 4370045CNBanxico #2309
          flat base 1 on front, curved base 1 on reverse
includes numbers 970314
  5  February 1915  6000001  10856000 4,856,000 4,856,000 Parsons
  10856001 11384000 528,000 528,000 Parsons: 528,000 unissued notes destroyed by the Departamento de Amortización of Comisión Monetaria, 3 August 1916El Demócrata, Tomo III, Núm. 362, 5 August 1916
   11384001 30000000 18,616,000 18,616,000 Parsons
  30000001 44000000 14,000,000 14,000,000 includes numbers 30447113CNBanxico #12252 to 43299698CNBanxico #2297
  44000001 45000000 1,000,000 1,000,000 destroyed by Departamento de Amortización of Comisión Monetaria, 15 to 17 August 1916El Demócrata, Tomo III, Núm. 373, 16 August 1916; El Demócrata, Tomo III, Núm. 374, 17 August 1916; El Demócrata, Tomo III, Núm. 376, 19 August 1916
  A - U         includes numbers 6812365CNBanxico #2184 to 9386048CNBanxico #2221