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| Issuer | Banco de Mexico |
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| Year | 1943-1978 |
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| Currency | Peso (1863-1992) |
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| Obverse description | Intaglio-printed portrait of Matías Romero within an oval vignette at left, set against a fine guilloche underprint in blue-violet. The central vignette contains the numeral denomination 10,000 within an ornate lathe-work cartouche surmounted by the text 'DIEZ MIL PESOS', flanked by two red serial numbers and series designations. Three manuscript signatures appear at the foot of the note above the printed titles 'CONSEJERO', 'INTERVENTOR DE LA COM. NAC. BANCARIA', and 'CAJERO', with the date and place of issue reading 'Mexico, D.F.' at lower right. |
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| Reverse lettering | DIEZ MIL PESOS 10,000 BANCO DE MEXICO S.A. AMERICAN BANK NOTE COMPANY (Translation: Ten Thousand Pesos / Bank of Mexico S.A.) |
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This denomination spans an unusually long printing window — over three decades — during which Mexico's economy absorbed post-war industrialization, oil nationalism, and chronic peso pressure. The ABNC contract for high-denomination Mexican notes was a long-running arrangement, and the New York engraving and printing quality was consistently finer than what domestic facilities could produce during most of this period.
By the late 1970s, 10,000 pesos was no longer a large sum. Inflation had done its work quietly across the note's lifetime.