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5 Pesos El Banco de Aguascalientes
| Issuer | El Banco de Aguascalientes |
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| Year | 1902-1910 |
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| Size | 184 × 82 mm |
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| Obverse description | Black intaglio print on green and yellow underprint, with red serial numbers. At left, a portrait vignette of Pedro José Garcia Rojas; at right, a vignette of El Templo de San Marcos in Aguascalientes City. The face bears the issuing bank's title and promise-to-pay inscription in letterpress. |
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| Obverse lettering | EL Banco de Aguascalientes PAGARA CINCO PESOS A LA VISTA, AL PORTADOR EN EFECTIVO AGUASCALIENTES JULIO 1º DE 1910 (Translation: The Bank of Aguascalientes will pay Five Pesos on sight, to the bearer in cash Aguascalientes July 1st 1910) |
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El Banco de Aguascalientes was one of the smaller state-chartered banks operating under Mexico's 1897 Ley General de Instituciones de Crédito, which opened the door to regional note-issuing banks while keeping them tethered to federal oversight. The bank's concession was modest, and circulation of its notes rarely extended far beyond the state itself — by design as much as by geography.
The American Bank Note Company engraved and printed the entire series. ABNC's Mexico work from this period is among the most technically refined commercial banknote printing of the era, and this issue is no exception in terms of intaglio quality.
The series was rendered void following the 1913–1914 collapse of the Porfiriato banking system.