100 Pesos El Banco Oriental de Mexico

The Banco Oriental de México operated out of Puebla under the 1897 Ley General de Instituciones de Crédito, which divided Mexico's banking sector into regional concessions — each institution legally confined to issuing currency within its home state. The Oriental held the Puebla concession, though in practice its notes circulated well beyond that boundary in the years before the Revolution destabilized the entire system of concession banking.

American Bank Note Company handled the majority of Mexico's concession-era bank printing, and the quality of intaglio work on this series reflects that near-monopoly relationship. The Banco Oriental was liquidated during the Huerta period, with most circulation notes called in after 1914.