Catalog
1.000 Pesos
| Issuer | Banco de Londres, Mexico y Sud America |
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| Value | 1.000 Pesos |
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| Obverse description | The note bears the bank title BANCO DE LONDRES, MEXICO Y SUD AMERICA in an arched banner across the top, flanked by ornate guilloche borders. To the left, an intaglio vignette of a standing classical female figure, with a royal coat of arms at centre top; to the lower right, a pastoral vignette of a figure harvesting crops. The denomination MIL PESOS appears within an oval cartouche at centre, with the value $1000 repeated in oval panels at both left and right, and a manuscript promise-to-pay text in Spanish reading 'El Banco en Lima pagará á la vista al portador MIL PESOS en efecto'. |
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| Obverse lettering | BANCO DE LONDRES, MEXICO Y SUD AMERICA MIL PESOS $1000 El Banco en Lima pagará á la vista al portador MIL PESOS en efecto Lima de 18 For the LONDON BANK OF MEXICO & SOUTH AMERICA, LIMITED Accomt Manager Director |
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Banco de Londres, México y Sud América was a British-chartered institution operating in Mexico under a concession from the Díaz government — one of only three foreign banks permitted to issue notes under the 1884 banking law. A 1,000 Peso denomination from this issuer would have been a large-value instrument, intended for commercial and interbank settlement rather than retail use, which means surviving examples with any circulation evidence are genuinely uncommon.
The American Bank Note Company handled the printing, as it did for most of Mexico's private bank concessionaires during the Porfiriato. The bank lost its right to issue notes following the 1910 Revolution and the subsequent nationalization push under Carranza.