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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.