--- title: 'Ejército Constitucionalista de México: billete de cinco pesos (Constitutionalist Army of Mexico: Five-Peso Note)' url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/constitucionalista-cinco-pesos-1914/ description: Obverse of a green five-peso note dated Chihuahua, 30 March 1914, issued in the name of the Constitutionalist Army. section: Collection --- [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) [![Ejército Constitucionalista de México: billete de cinco pesos (Constitutionalist Army of Mexico: Five-Peso Note)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/constitucionalista-cinco-pesos-1914.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/constitucionalista-cinco-pesos-1914.jpg) # Ejército Constitucionalista de México: billete de cinco pesos (Constitutionalist Army of Mexico: Five-Peso Note) Obverse of a green five-peso note dated Chihuahua, 30 March 1914, issued in the name of the Constitutionalist Army. It carries the national emblem of an eagle on a cactus before the two volcanoes and a round seal reading 'Ejército Constitucionalista de México, Primer Jefe'. The tell is the borrowed national symbolism: a revolutionary army's paper money wears the state's own emblem. - **Date:** March 30, 1914 - **Period:** [Pre-1914](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#era=pre-1914) - **Made by:** Ejército Constitucionalista de México (Primer Jefe Venustiano Carranza), Chihuahua Department of Finance - **Region:** [Latin America](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#region=latin-america) - **Country:** [Mexico](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#country=mexico) - **Medium:** [Banknotes and coins](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#medium=banknote-coin) - **Issuer type:** [Military](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#actor=military) - **Regime:** [Huerta Government](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#regime=huerta-government) - **Leader:** [Victoriano Huerta](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#leader=victoriano-huerta) - **Audience:** [Domestic public](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#audience=domestic-public) - **Purpose:** [Mobilize or secure compliance](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#purpose=mobilize-comply) - **Themes:** [Economy and finance](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=economy-finance), [War and the military](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=war-military) - **Event:** [Mexican Revolution](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#event=mexican-revolution) - **Techniques:** [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/) - **Source:** Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are - **Source:** [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Billete_de_2_pesos_del_Ej%C3%A9rcito_Constitucionalista_de_M%C3%A9xico_(anverso).jpg), retrieved September 29, 2026 - **Rights:** Public domain (Mexican government work, 1914); scan dedicated CC0 1.0 by uploader Scan by Wikimedia Commons user Inri (CC0 1.0) of a 1914 note of the Ejército Constitucionalista de México ## Text on the object Original (Spanish) · read from the image, not independently checked ``` 5 PESOS CINCO CINCO Serie B EJÉRCITO CONSTITUCIONALISTA DE MÉXICO Serie B Nº 1043652 Nº [illegible, red overprint] VALE POR 5 PESOS [seal:] EJÉRCITO CONSTITUCIONALISTA DE MÉXICO PRIMER JEFE TESORERO GENERAL [signature] que la Tesorería recibirá y pagará de acuerdo con el decreto de 12 de Febrero de 1914. Chihuahua, 30 de Marzo de 1914. JEFE DEL DEPARTAMENTO DE HACIENDA [signature] CINCO PESOS ``` English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader) ``` 5 PESOS FIVE FIVE Series B CONSTITUTIONALIST ARMY OF MEXICO Series B No. 1043652 No. [illegible, red overprint] GOOD FOR 5 PESOS [seal:] CONSTITUTIONALIST ARMY OF MEXICO FIRST CHIEF TREASURER GENERAL [signature] that the Treasury will receive and pay in accordance with the decree of 12 February 1914. Chihuahua, 30 March 1914. HEAD OF THE FINANCE DEPARTMENT [signature] FIVE PESOS ``` The small centre line ('que la Tesorería recibirá y pagará ...') is blurred in the scan; its reading is supported by the sharper reverse wording of the same note ('circulará de acuerdo con el decreto de 12 de febrero de 1914') but is not certain word for word. Obverse only. [← The unemployed](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/iww-i-wont-workers-1914/) [I.W.W. Hat Card →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/iww-bread-or-revolution-1914/) ## Using the same techniques - [Bronze sestertius of Gaius (Caligula), reverse S P Q R P P OB CIVES SERVATOS in an oak wreath](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/sestertius-caligula-ob-cives-servatos-0037/) (0037 · Testimonial, Transfer) - [Gold coin of Kanishka: King of Kings legend, king at the altar, deity Oesho](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/gold-dinar-kanishka-king-of-kings-0130/) (0130 · Transfer) - [Gold solidus of Justinian I, reverse VICTORIA AVGGG with Victory holding a Christogram staff](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/solidus-justinian-i-victoria-avggg-0538/) (0538 · Transfer, Glittering generalities) - [Bayeux Tapestry, scene 23: UBI HAROLD SACRAMENTVM FECIT VVILLELMO DVCI](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/bayeux-tapestry-harold-oath-to-william-1070/) (1070 · Transfer, Card stacking) - [Frontispiece to Eikon Basilike, The Pourtraicture of His Sacred Majestie in his Solitudes and Sufferings (Hollar, 1649)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/eikon-basilike-frontispiece-hollar-1649/) (1649 · Transfer, Glittering generalities) - [Consult of the doctors on the grave illness of the Grand Sultan (Consult vande medicijnen inde swaere siekte vanden grooten Sultaen)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/consult-of-the-doctors-sick-sultan-antwerp-1683/) (1683 · Transfer, Bandwagon) - [The Highlanders Medley, or The Duke Triumphant (A Loyal Song)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/highlanders-medley-duke-triumphant-1746/) (1746 · Name-calling, Transfer) - [Marche du Dom Quichotte moderne pour la deffence du Moulin des Abus (March of the Modern Don Quixote in Defence of the Mill of Abuses)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/dom-quichotte-moulin-des-abus-1791/) (1791 · Name-calling, Transfer)