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1 Peso El Banco Nacional de México
| Issuer | Banco Nacional de México |
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| Year | 1885-1913 |
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| Size | 153 × 70 mm |
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| Obverse description | Black intaglio on green and yellow underprint, with red serial numbers. A portrait vignette at left depicts Manuela García-Teruel y Manso, while the central vignette presents a steam locomotive in engraved detail. The note carries the issuing bank's title and payment obligation in letterpress across the face. |
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| Reverse description | Printed entirely in green, the reverse is dominated by two large circular coin vignettes at center: the obverse of the Mexican Peso coin at left, engraved with the Mexican eagle and the legend REPUBLICA MEXICANA, and the reverse of the coin at right, showing the Phrygian cap with radiating sunbeams and the date. Elaborate guilloche lathe-work and numeral counters fill the four corners, with the bank title split between a header panel reading BANCO NACIONAL and a footer panel reading DE MÉXICO. The printer's imprint AMERICAN BANK NOTE COMPANY, NEW YORK appears at the bottom margin. |
| Reverse lettering | BANCO NACIONAL DE MÉXICO REPUBLICA MEXICANA AMERICAN BANK NOTE COMPANY, NEW YORK (Translation: National Bank of Mexico / Mexican Republic / American Bank Note Company, New York) |
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