1 Peso El Banco de Tamaulipas

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.