1 Peso El Banco Oriental de Mexico

Banco Oriental de México, headquartered in Puebla, was one of the regional banks operating under the 1897 Ley General de Instituciones de Crédito — the legislation that created Mexico's pre-revolutionary banking framework. By 1914 that framework was collapsing. The Constitutionalist forces under Carranza were systematically invalidating notes issued by banks associated with the Huerta regime, and Oriental was squarely in that category.

The American Book and Printing Company in Mexico City was a domestic operation, unusual for Mexican provincial bank issues of this period, which more commonly went to American Bank Note or its competitors in New York. That the bank turned to a local printer in 1914 says something about the urgency — and the disruption — of that moment.