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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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| Printer | American Bank Note Company, New York, United States |
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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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The Banco Nacional de México was formed in 1884 through a merger of the Banco Nacional Mexicano and the Banco Mercantil Mexicano, and almost immediately received preferential concession rights from the Díaz government — including the privilege of issuing notes redeemable at face value for tax payments. That arrangement gave its paper a practical credibility that competing state bank notes lacked, and the 1 Peso circulated widely as a result across a genuinely long production window spanning nearly three decades.
ABNC held the contract throughout, printing from New York on intaglio plates. The series ran long enough that signature combinations across the issue are numerous, and some combinations are considerably scarcer than others.