Local municipal issues

Michoacan local issues

The state government of Michoacán only made a couple of issues and so it seems it was left to the municipalities to address the shortage of small change that resulted from hoarding and a breakdown in communications.

Documentation about these various local issues is rare, but we can occasionally draw inferences from the notes themselves, or similarities between notes or with issues from the neighbouring state of Jalisco.

Cotija de la Paz

La Receptoria de Rentas

Cotija 50c M2912 50c La Receptoria de Rentas

	series	from	to	total number	total value
50c	A					includes number 7040

This 50c note was issued by the local Receptoria de Rentas in accordance with an agreement^{[text needed}] made on 20 August 1915 and was backed by a deposit in the same Receptoria. It bears the printed names of the Presidente Municipal, Daniel Valencia, the Coronel Jefe de Armas en el Distrito, Manuel Guizar Valencia, and the Tesorero, Abraham Mendoza.

[if correct person]
Daniel Valencia Valencia was born in 1886. He was a distinguished politician and served as president of the Supreme Court (Suprema Corte de Justicia de la Nación) from 1934 to 1940. He died in 1948.

Manuel Guizar Valencia, a native of Cotija, nicknamed "Mala Alma" (Bad Soul), had first been a Maderista with Sabás Valladares, then as a Huertista toured the districts of Zamora and Jiquilpan alongside Jesús Síntora, committing all kinds of outrages. Later, on 30 October 1914, after proclaiming himself a Villista, he undertook a "clerical" uprising in Sahuyo, through which he intended to take the town of Jiquilpan. However, he was quickly suppressed by the column of General Joaquin Amaro who was in command of the military forces of the northwestern zone of Michoacán.

Guizar Valencia’s exploits continued to be news in the region. On 14 November 1914, accompanied by a group of peasants, he assaulted the main military barracks, located in the Mesón de San José, taking advantage of the fact that the garrison of the Constitutionalist captain Benjamín Novoa were resting at the Hotel México, after an afternoon of jaripeo (bull riding) at the El Paso ranch. The assailants surprised the guard, killing him, and then seized the horde of weapons. When the Carrancistas learned of the events, they besieged the assailants and waged a strong confrontation: some were able to flee through the adjoining houses and others succumbed when the ammunition ran out.

However, during 1914 and 1915 Guizar Valencia continued to mock the Constitutionalist forces, he was even hired by the hacienda of Guaracha as its armed wing to counteract the nascent agrarianism in the district. Finally, in February 1916, his luck ran out: he was apprehended and shot in Sahuayo by Colonel Francisco Zepeda^{El Pueblo, 26 March 1916}, apparently without justification, since at that time he was pardoned and retired from public life, though he could not really be granted a pardon because of the number of abuses and murders that he had committed^{José Romero Vargas, Cotija durante los revoluciones: 1900-1926, edit. Progreso, 1928}.

Abraham Mendoza Guízar was born in Cotija in 1874 and married Viviana Valencia Bouquete on 15 March 1894.

"Servicio de cambio local"

Cotija 5c M2910 5c Servicio de cambio local

	from	to	total number	total value
5c					includes numbers 331 to 8[ ]5

This 5c note is dated 15 September 1915 and was only valid for two months before it needed revalidation..

Uruapan

Uruapan 2c

Uruapan 2c reverse M2937 2c Presidencia Municipal

Uruapan 5c

Uruapan 5c reverse M2938 5c Presidencia Municipal

Uruapan 10c

Uruapan 10c reverse M2939 10c Presidencia Municipal

Uruapan 20c

Uruapan 20c reverse M2940 20c Presidencia Municipal

Uruapan 50c

Uruapan 50c reverse M2941 50c Presidencia Municipal

2c, 5c, 10c, 20c and 50c notes, printed on reused paper, dated 20 April 1915 and bearing the names of the Presidente Municipal, J. Treviño S., and Administrador del Timbre, M. Farías.

J. Treviño S.
M. Farias

Taretan

Taretan 5c M2935 5c Tesorería Municipal

A 5c note from the Tesorería Municipal.

Patzcuaro

Patzcuaro 10c

Patzcuaro 10c reverse M2925 10c Tesorería Municipal

Patzcuaro 20c

Patzcuaro 20c reverse M2926 20c Tesorería Municipal

	from	to	total number	total value
10c					includes numbers 2480^{CNBanxico #5227} to 4581^{CNBanxico #5228}
20c					includes numbers 0663^{CNBanxico #11536} to 3821

Known notes issued by the Tesorería Municipal are for 10c and 20c, dated 1 June 1915.

Puruándiro

Puruandiro 1c

Puruandiro 1c reverse M2927 1c Tesorería Municipal

Puruandiro 5c

Puruandiro 5c reverse M2928 5c Tesorería Municipal

Puruandiro 10c

Puruandiro 10c reverse M2929 10c Tesorería Municipal

	series	from	to	total number	total value
1c	A
5c	A
10c	A

These Tesorería Municipal notes are dated 25 July 1915 and were issued in accordance with an agreement with the government^{[text needed]} and backed by local receipts. They have the names of General Antonio de P. Magaña and Presidente Municipal José Barrera Navarrete.

Antonio de P. Magaña was born in Michoacán. A newspaperman who supported Madero, he fought with the Constitutionalists and defended Veracruz during the American intervention in 1914. He was Jefe de la Armas in Puruándiro in 1915 and a failed candidate for governor of the state in 1917.

José Barrera Navarrete was born in Puruándiro. in about 1885.

He ran a factory producing ice and fizzy drinks.

He died about 1965, in his hometown, at the age of 82.

Zinapécuaro

Zinapecuaro 10c M2949 10c Tesorería Municipal

A 10c note. Serie D and with the signatures of the Presidente Municipal, [ ]^{[identification needed]}, and Tesorero Municipal, Eulogio Martín.


Eulogio Martín

Maravatio

Maravatio 2c 3

Maravatio 2c 3 reverse M2915b 2c Ayuntamiento

There was a Serie B, with slight differences in the positioning of the text, and with different numerals.

Maravatio 2c 1

Maravatio 2c 1 reverse M2915c 2c Ayuntamiento

Maravatio 2c 2

Maravatio 2c 2 reverse
M2915c 2c Ayuntamiento, larger 'MARAVATIO' and tall, thin ''2'

Maravatio 5c

Maravatio 5c reverse M2916a 5c Ayuntamiento

Maravatio 10c 1

Maravatio 10c 1 reverse M2916b 10c Ayuntamiento

Maravatio 10c 2

Maravatio 10c 2 reverse
M2916a 10c Ayuntamiento larger 'MARAVATIO' and tall, thin '10'

Maravatio 20c M2918a 10c Ayuntamiento

	series	from	to	total number	total value
2c						includes numbers 0166^{CNBanxico #11515} to 7329^{CNBanxico #11517}
2c	B					includes numbers 1018 to 6203
5c	B					includes numbers 0368^{CNBanxico #11518} to 3798
10c	B					includes numbers 0253 to 0451^{CNBanxico #115149}
20c	B

Senguio

Senguio 5c M2931 5c Ayuntamiento

Senguio 10c M2932 10c Ayuntamiento

Senguio 20c M2933 20c Ayuntamiento

	series	from	to	total number	total value
2c
5c	A					includes number 6719
10c	A					includes number 176
20c	A					includes number 636

Zitácuaro

Palacio Municipal Zitacuaro
Palacio Municipal, Zitácuaro

Zitacuaro 5c

Zitacuaro 5c reverse M2951 5c Ayuntamiento

Zitacuaro 10c

Zitacuaro 10c reverse M2952a 10c Ayuntamiento

Zitacuaro 20c

Zitacuaro 20c reverse M2953a 20c Ayuntamiento

Zitacuaro 50c

Zitacuaro 50c reverse M2955 50c Ayuntamiento

	from	to	total number	total value
5c
10c					includes numbers 1033^{CNBanxico #5323} to 1833^{CNBanxico #5323}
20c
50c					includes numbers 65^{CNBanxico #5318} to 3717^{CNBanxico #5292}

The 50c note is dated 9 March 1915 and is signed by the Presidente Municipal León Rodríguez C. and Tesorero E. P[ ].

León Rodríguez C.

Rodríguez was diputado suplente for Zitacuaro to the XXXVI state legislature (1917-1918).

E ^{[identification needed]}