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10 Pesos El Banco de Sonora
| Issuer | El Banco de Sonora |
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| Year | 1899-1911 |
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| Currency | Peso (1863-1992) |
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| Obverse lettering | EL BANCO DE SONORA SOCIEDAD ANÓNIMA PAGARÁ Á LA VISTA AL PORTADOR DIEZ PESOS EN MONEDA CORRIENTE DE PLATA DEL CUÑO MEXICANO. Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico (Translation: The Bank of Sonora Anonymous Society Will pay on sight to the bearer Ten Pesos in current silver coin of Mexican making.) |
| Reverse description | Printed entirely in green, the reverse is dominated by two large concentric guilloche rosettes flanking a central cartouche, with elaborate lathe-work patterns filling the entire field. The bank name 'BANCO DE SONORA' is set within the central cartouche in bold serif lettering, and the numeral '10' appears within each rosette. The American Bank Note Company imprint runs along the lower margin. |
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El Banco de Sonora was chartered in 1897 as part of the Díaz administration's deliberate consolidation of regional banking under a small number of privileged concessions — by 1910 only around thirty banks held note-issuing rights across all of Mexico. The bank operated from Hermosillo and served a state economy driven heavily by mining and cross-border trade with Arizona, which gave its notes real practical circulation rather than the largely nominal function seen in some provincial issues.
The ABNC plates for this series were used across a long issuing window, and date ranges this wide often mean multiple signature combinations exist — worth examining closely before cataloging as a single type.