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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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| Currency | Peso (1863-1992) |
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| Obverse description | Black intaglio print on brown and yellow underprint. The central vignette presents a sailing ship under full sail on rough seas, enclosed within an oval guilloche frame flanked by two large ornate numeral '100' counters at left and right. The bank title 'BANCO DE TAMAULIPAS' arches across the top, with the obligation text 'SE PAGARA AL PORTADOR A LA VISTA A LA PAR EN EFECTIVO' inscribed below it; the denomination 'CIEN PESOS' appears in bold lettering along the lower portion, with the imprint of the American Bank Note Co., New York at the bottom center. Signature lines for 'Interventor del Gobierno', 'Gerente', and 'Consejero' are printed along the lower margin. |
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| Obverse lettering | BANCO DE TAMAULIPAS SE PAGARA AL PORTADOR A LA VISTA A LA PAR EN EFECTIVO CIEN PESOS Tampico Serie H AMERICAN BANK NOTE CO. NEW YORK INTERVENTOR DEL GOBIERNO GERENTE CONSEJERO |
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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.