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100 Pesos El Banco de Tamaulipas 1914
| Issuer | Banco de Tamaulipas |
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| Year | 1902-1914 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Reverse description | Printed in olive-green intaglio on plain paper. The central vignette, set within a circular guilloche border, depicts two hunting dogs on the bank of a wooded river scene. Large ornate numeral '100' counters occupy the left and right panels, surrounded by elaborate scrollwork and lathe-work guilloche patterns. The bank name 'BANCO DE TAMAULIPAS' is set in a solid rectangular panel at the bottom center, with the printer's imprint 'AMERICAN BANK NOTE COMPANY, NEW YORK' below it. |
| Reverse lettering | BANCO DE TAMAULIPAS AMERICAN BANK NOTE COMPANY, NEW YORK |
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El Banco de Tamaulipas was one of the regional banks authorized under Mexico's 1897 banking law, which granted concessions to state-chartered institutions with the right to issue their own circulating notes — a privilege that vanished overnight when Carranza's constitutionalist government decreed the nationalization of all such banks in 1916 and declared their notes void. The 1914 date places this note in the most turbulent phase of that window, when revolutionary factions controlled different rail lines and the practical reach of any regional banknote was acutely uncertain.
ABNC printed the plates for this series well before the revolution made the arrangement moot. Surviving examples sometimes show heavy handling consistent with rapid, distressed circulation during 1913–1915, when paper of any institutional origin was accepted cautiously and hoarded aggressively.