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1 Peso El Banco del Estado de Mexico
| Issuer | El Banco del Estado de Mexico |
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| Year | 1914 |
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| Size | 150 x 70 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | Nº 079479 EL BANCO DEL ESTADO DE MEXICO Toluca, Febrero 9 PAGARA DE 1914 UN PESO SÉRIE C. D. A LA VISTA AL PORTADOR EN EFECTIVO Consejero Interventor del Gobierno El Cajero AMERICAN BOOK AND PRINTING CO. MEX. D. F. (Translation: The Bank of the State of México Toluca, February 9th, 1914 Will pay one Peso at sight, to bearer, in cash. Advisor, Government Auditor, The Cashier.) |
| Reverse description | Blue letterpress; central vignette of a steam locomotive travelling through a mountainous landscape. Issuer title curves around the vignette, face value numeral appears on both lateral margins, and a black circular bank seal is positioned at upper left. |
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El Banco del Estado de Mexico was one of several regional concession banks operating under the 1897 Ley General de Instituciones de Crédito, which gave states their own note-issuing privileges but kept them subordinate to federal oversight. By 1914, that system was collapsing. The Revolution had fractured both government authority and currency confidence, and regional bank notes were being refused, counterfeited, and forcibly replaced by Constitutionalist and Conventionist emissions simultaneously.
American Book and Printing Co. handled a significant volume of Mexican emergency and commercial printing during this period — a domestic printer filling the gap left by disrupted access to the major European security printers.