Catalog
10 Pesos
| Issuer | Banco Internacional |
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| Year | 1884 |
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| Value | 10 Pesos |
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| Obverse lettering | EL BANCO INTERNACIONAL Bogota, 15 de Diciembre de 1884 PAGARA AL portador a la vista DIEZ PESOS en moneda corriente DIEZ - 10 - DIEZ DIRECTOR SEGUNDO DIRECTOR TERCERO American Bank Note Co. New York |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed entirely in a uniform red-brown tone and carries a central large numeral '10' within an elaborate guilloche rosette, flanked by the bank title 'INTERNACIONAL' in bold lettering. A rectangular panel at the right bears the handwritten-style line 'EL CAJERO' above a blank cashier's signature space, and the surrounding border consists of a repetitive geometric lathe-work frame with corner ornaments. A red oval seal is visible at the lower left, and the American Bank Note Company imprint appears at the bottom margin. |
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Banco Internacional was a short-lived Mexican private bank, one of several chartered during the Díaz-era liberalization of banking that preceded the Banco de México monopoly by four decades. The American Bank Note Company's Mexico City client list was crowded by the 1880s, making this a competitive commission rather than an exclusive arrangement.
P#S648 falls within the "S" prefix of the Pick catalog — the chartered but privately issued series — which itself signals how fragmented Mexican note-issuing authority remained before the 1897 Ley General de Instituciones de Crédito imposed some order on the system.