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"Muera Huerta" Mexican Revolutionary Peso

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Revolution Muera Huerta Peso 1914, KM621, struck in Durango at the city of Cuencame.

Death to the feared General Huerta of the Federal army is what this coin states.







Minted in the turbulent year of 1914 the coin orders the death of Victoriano Huerta who had,

through a military coup, usurped the Mexican Presidency from Francisco Madero and

had him summarily executed the previous year.



This act brought the revolutionary armies of Villa, Obregon, Carranza and Zapata against Huerta

under the Plan of Guadalupe.

Villa’s hatred of Huerta had actually begun much earlier when he had been placed in

Huerta’s army by Francisco Madero as an honorary colonel during the suppression of

Pascual Orozco’s revolt of 1912.



Seen as an overly ambitious competitor and loose cannon, Huerta had Villa jailed and

scheduled for the firing squad for insubordination and horse thievery.

Only the intervention of Madero saved Villa, but the hatred between the two men had

been made plain. Further exacerbating this personal hatred was the murder of Villa’s

political mentor Abraham Gonzalez by Huerta’s forces in March of 1913.



Thus for the coinage distributed to the areas under his control Villa chose a direct

and plain call to arms: “Death to Huerta”.



Appalled by such a personal affront Huerta made it punishable by death to possess

one of these Pesos.



After a string of military losses culminating in the Battle of Zacatecas,

General Huerta was forced to resign the presidency and went into exile,

dying in U.S. custody in 1916.



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