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100 Pesos El Banco de Londres y Mexico
| Issuer | Banco de Londres y Mexico |
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| Year | 1889-1914 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Black intaglio print on a red guilloche underprint with red serial numbers. At center, a portrait vignette of Benito Juárez; at left, a pastoral vignette of cattle before a slaughterhouse; at right, a vignette of a groom with a dog attending to a horse. |
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| Reverse lettering | BANCO DE LONDRES Y MEXICO AMERICAN BANK NOTE COMPANY, NEW YORK (Translation: Bank of London and Mexico) |
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El Banco de Londres y México was the oldest foreign bank operating in Mexico — a British-founded institution that opened in 1864 and secured note-issuing rights under the 1897 Ley General de Instituciones de Crédito. The American Bank Note Company in New York printed for numerous Latin American issuers during this period, and this series reflects that commercial relationship rather than any national printing infrastructure.
The date range spans the Porfiriato's final years and the early Revolutionary period — a chaotic interval for any circulating currency. Notes issued after 1910 faced increasingly uncertain redemption prospects as the banking system fractured under revolutionary pressure. The bank itself was not formally liquidated until 1933.