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2 Pesos El Banco Oriental de Mexico
| Issuer | El Banco Oriental de Mexico |
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| Year | 1914 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in dark green and black intaglio, with a large ornate guilloche medallion at left enclosing an elaborate interlaced monogram, flanked by the numeral '2' on either side. A central vignette to the right presents a landscape view of the Fort of Loreto in Puebla, rendered in fine engraved detail with trees in the foreground. The bank title 'EL BANCO ORIENTAL DE MEXICO S.A.' arches across the top, with the date 'PUEBLA, 26 DE FEBRERO DE 1914' below, three manuscript signatures appear at the bottom margin alongside red overprint stamps and the denomination 'DOS PESOS' in a ruled panel at lower right. |
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| Reverse lettering | 2 BANCO ORIENTAL DE MEXICO S.A. ANGELIS SVIS DEVS MANDAVIT DE TE VT CVSTODIANT TE IN OMNIBVS VIIS TVIS AMERICAN BOOK & PRINTING CO. MEXICO. |
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El Banco Oriental de México, headquartered in Puebla, was one of the regional banks operating under the 1897 Ley General de Instituciones de Crédito — the concession framework that allowed state-chartered banks to issue their own currency. By 1914 that system was collapsing. The Revolution had fractured federal authority, and Carrancista forces were actively suppressing the old Porfirian banking order. Notes issued that year circulated in a climate of extreme monetary distrust, competing against a flood of revolutionary scrip from multiple factions simultaneously.
American Book & Printing Co. was a Mexico City operation, not a prestige security printer, which shows in the relative simplicity of the engraving. The bank was formally liquidated in 1916.