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20 Pesos El Banco de Tamaulipas
| Issuer | El Banco de Tamaulipas |
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| Year | 1902-1914 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Olive-green and black intaglio note with the bank title EL BANCO DE TAMAULIPAS arched in bold letterpress across the top, flanking a central vignette of a steam locomotive hauling passenger cars through a mountainous landscape. Ornate guilloche columns frame the central composition on either side, with large decorative numeral 20s positioned at the four corners and adjacent to the vignette. Three signature lines for Interventor del Gobierno, Gerente, and Consejero run along the lower margin, with the place name Tampico at lower left and Serie H at upper right. |
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| Reverse lettering | Banco de Tamaulipas 20 |
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El Banco de Tamaulipas was one of the regional banks authorized under Mexico's 1897 Ley General de Instituciones de Crédito, which granted concessions to state-chartered banks with the right of note issue — a deliberately fragmented system that kept no single institution too powerful. The bank operated out of Ciudad Victoria and served a border state with active commercial traffic along the Río Grande.
ABNC supplied the plates, and this series remained in nominal circulation until the Huerta government's forced consolidation of provincial bank notes in 1914 effectively killed the regional banking system. Notes outstanding after that point were frozen, then rendered worthless by the revolutionary monetary chaos that followed.