Catalog
20 Pesos
| Issuer | Banco de México |
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| Year | 1940-1945 |
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| Value | 20 Pesos (20 MXP) |
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| Obverse description | Black intaglio print on multicolor guilloche underprint with red serial numbers. At left, a vignette portrait of Josefa Ortiz de Domínguez in period dress faces the center of the note. The design is framed with fine lathe-work borders characteristic of American Bank Note Company production. |
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| Reverse lettering | BANCO DE MEXICO S.A. PALACIO DE GOBIERNO FEDERAL-QUERETARO- VEINTE PESOS (Translation: Bank of Mexico S.A. Palace of the Federal Government-Querétaro Twenty Pesos) |
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Banco de México turned to the American Bank Note Company for much of its mid-century production, and this series reflects the wartime constraints of that relationship. Mexico remained officially neutral through most of World War II, but dollar shortages and disrupted trade created real pressure on domestic money supply, pushing the bank to issue more paper across a wider range of denominations than it might otherwise have needed.
The ABNCo printing contract gave these notes a finish and intaglio quality noticeably superior to contemporaneous issues from other Latin American central banks working with lesser printers during the same period.