1000 Pesos El Banco Nacional de Mexico

El Banco Nacional de México was established in 1884 through a merger of the Banco Nacional Mexicano and the Banco Mercantil Mexicano, giving it a federally privileged position that no other Mexican institution could match — it held the government account, issued notes redeemable at par nationwide, and operated under a concession that made it effectively the closest thing Mexico had to a central bank under Porfirio Díaz.

The 1000 Peso denomination was not casual commerce. At that value it moved between merchant houses, mining operations, and the federal treasury. ABNC's engraved work on this series is among the finer Mexican commercial commissions of the period. The bank's concession was revoked in 1913 during the revolutionary upheaval, making late-dated examples of this issue historically terminal.