25 Centavos El Banco Mexicano

El Banco Mexicano was one of the earliest private commercial banks chartered under the Lerdo and Díaz administrations, operating out of the port city of Mazatlán before Sinaloa had any serious banking infrastructure. The 1884 banking law gave these state-level concessions limited note-issuing rights, and denominations this small — fractional centavos issues — were partly intended to address a chronic shortage of small silver coinage in Pacific coast commerce.

ABNC produced the plates in New York; the bank itself was liquidated well before the 1910 revolution swept away most of Mexico's private banking system under the Juárez-era concession framework entirely.