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20 000 Pesos
| Issuer | Banco de México |
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| Year | 1988-1989 |
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| Size | 157 × 67 mm |
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| Reverse description | Central vignette reproduces an intaglio engraving of Lintel 45 from Yaxchilán, Chiapas, flanked by underprint imagery drawn from the murals of Room 3 of the Temple of the Paintings at Bonampak, Chiapas. The Pre-Columbian artistic motifs are set within a structured border with denomination text and issuer name arranged in the surrounding panels. |
| Reverse lettering | Banco De Mexico Veinte Mil Pesos 20 000 (Translation: Bank of Mexico Twenty Thousand Pesos 20 000) |
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By the late 1980s, Mexico's peso had been through a decade of severe devaluation — the 1982 debt crisis triggered a collapse that ultimately forced a full redenomination in 1993, when one new peso was exchanged for 1,000 old ones. A 20,000-peso note, unthinkable a generation earlier, had become a routine transaction denomination, not a large-value instrument.
Banco de México printed this series in-house at its own facilities, unusual for a central bank of that period and reflective of the volume demands that chronic inflation imposed on note production.