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1 Peso El Banco de Tamaulipas
| Issuer | El Banco de Tamaulipas |
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| Year | 1914 |
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| Value | 1 Peso (1 MXP) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in light pink with black letterpress text throughout. A central oval vignette illustrates industrial and commercial motifs of the Tamaulipas region, including oil derricks, a locomotive with oil wagons, storage tanks, and a vessel at sea. The denomination 'UN PESO' appears centered below the vignette, with series and serial number printed in red, and the Roman numeral I repeated in each corner. |
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| Reverse lettering | Banco de Tamaulipas American Book & Printing Co. Mexico D.F. 1 Sello: Secretaría de Hacienda Banco de Tamaulipas |
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El Banco de Tamaulipas was one of several regional Mexican banks empowered under the 1897 General Banking Law, but by 1914 the entire concession banking system was collapsing under the weight of the Revolution. This note was issued during the period when Constitutionalist forces were dismantling the Porfirian financial architecture — the nationalization decree of 1916 would render all such private bank issues worthless, making late emission dates like this one historically loaded.
American Book & Printing Co. handled a considerable volume of emergency issue work for Mexican institutions during this period, operating out of Mexico City precisely because wartime conditions made foreign printing impractical.