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10 Pesos El Banco Nacional de Mexico

Issuer El Banco Nacional de México
Year 1885-1913
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Value 10 Pesos (10 MXP)
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Obverse description Black intaglio print on blue and yellow underprint, with red serial numbers and a red seal. At left, a portrait vignette of Manuela García-Teruel y Manso. At center, a vignette of a seated Mexican woman surrounded by fruits and vegetation.
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Reverse lettering BANCO NACIONAL DE MÉXICO
(Translation: National Bank of Mexico)
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El Banco Nacional de México was established in 1884 through the merger of the Banco Nacional Mexicano and the Banco Mercantil Mexicano, giving it a federally privileged position no provincial bank could match — including the exclusive right to operate in Mexico City and a preferred status in government transactions. That political backing made its notes the closest thing Porfirian Mexico had to a national currency before the Revolution scrambled everything.

The American Bank Note Company held the printing contract for most of this long series run, and the plates were used across multiple date ranges with relatively minor modifications. Notes from the later years of the window — post-1910 — occasionally turn up with revolutionary-era overstamps or counterstamps applied by regional authorities during the upheaval.

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