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1 Peso
| Issuer | Banco de México |
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| Year | 1948-1950 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Black intaglio print on a multicolor guilloche underprint, with red serial numbers. The central vignette presents the Piedra del Sol (Aztec Sun Stone), rendered in fine line engraving. Issuing authority legends and denomination text appear in the upper and lower margins. |
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| Reverse description | Red letterpress print with black seals. The central vignette presents the Monumento a la Independencia (Monument to Independence), designed by architect Antonio Rivas Mercado and sculpted by Enrique Alciati. Denomination and issuing authority inscriptions appear in the surrounding margins. |
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The postwar Mexican peso series of which this note forms part reflects a deliberate policy shift: Banco de México had relied on ABNC for decades, but by the early 1950s was moving toward domestic printing capacity. This issue falls at the tail end of that dependence, before the transition to Talleres de Impresión de Estampillas y Valores took hold in subsequent series.
The Pick 46 1 Peso circulated hard. Low-denomination notes of this period absorbed daily retail traffic in a country where coinage shortages made paper pesos genuinely useful at street level. Finding a clean example is not trivial.