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100 Pesos El Banco del Estado de Chihuahua
| Issuer | El Banco del Estado de Chihuahua |
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| Year | 1913 |
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| Value | 100 Pesos |
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| Obverse lettering | El Banco Del Estado De Chihuahua Pagara al portador en efectivo segun decreto del 12 de diciembre de mil novecientos trece. Cien Pesos Valor oro nacional CHIHUAHUA, MEXICO. SERIE A INTERVENTOR DEL GOBIERNO CAJERO GERENTE American Bank Note Co. New York (Translation: The State Bank of Chihuahua will pay the bearer in cash according to the decree of December 12, one thousand nine hundred and thirteen. One Hundred Pesos National gold value) |
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| Reverse lettering | Banco Del Estado De Chihuahua ESTADO DE CHIHUAHUA AMERICAN BANK NOTE COMPANY, NEW YORK (Translation: Chihuahua State Bank) |
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El Banco del Estado de Chihuahua was a state bank operating under the Porfirian banking framework, but by 1913 that framework was collapsing. The Revolution had already swept Díaz from power, and Chihuahua was Villista territory — Francisco Villa's División del Norte depended on functioning credit instruments to pay troops and move supplies, which gave notes like this an operational role well beyond ordinary commerce.
American Bank Note Company held the contract, as it did for much of Latin America's prestige currency printing at the time. The irony of a Revolutionary-era Chihuahuan obligation being engraved and pressed in lower Manhattan is not incidental — it reflects how thoroughly the pre-revolutionary banking elite had entrenched relationships with New York printers that outlasted the regime itself.