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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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| Currency | Peso (1863-1992) |
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| Obverse description | Blue letterpress on white paper; portrait vignette of Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla at center. Issuer title across top, face value numerals at all four corners with value in words at left and right center; red series letters and six-digit red serial numbers at lower left and right and top. Three manuscript signatures with printed titles below, issuing location and date at center, printer imprint at foot. |
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| 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.