Catalog
1 Peso
| Issuer | Banco de Marquez |
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| Year | 1899 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | EL BANCO DE MARQUEZ Pagaré al portador á la vista UN PESO EN MONEDA CORRIENTE Barranquilla EL PRESIDENTE DEL BANCO DIRECTOR GERENTE DIRECTOR No. |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in a single brown tone and is dominated by an elaborate guilloche border with ornamental corner medallions bearing the numeral 1. The central area carries a handwritten validation text in Spanish referencing a government decree dated 30 de Octubre de 1893 and a Bogotá date of 1899, above the manuscript signature of the Ministro del Tesoro and additional signatories identified as Miembros de la Junta de Emisión. A large manuscript countersignature traverses the center of the note. |
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The Banco de Marquez was a regional Mexican bank operating under the 1897 Ley General de Instituciones de Crédito, which authorized a proliferation of state-chartered banks empowered to issue their own currency. Most of these institutions were short-lived, and their notes saw limited circulation outside their home states — which is precisely why ABNC-printed provincial Mexican issues from this period survive in disproportionately low numbers relative to the print runs the company typically produced.
American Bank Note Company handled the majority of Mexican provincial bank commissions in the 1890s, often recycling vignette elements across clients. Whether this note shares plate components with other ABNC Mexican issues of the period is worth examining against the company's own production records held at the Archives of American Art.