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5 Pesos El Banco de Londres y Mexico
| Issuer | Banco de Londres y Mexico |
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| Year | 1889-1913 |
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| Currency | Peso (1863-1992) |
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| Obverse description | Black intaglio print on green guilloche underprint. Portrait bust of Benito Juárez at left, with an allegorical vignette of a seated woman accompanied by two girls at right. Intricate lathe-work borders frame the design throughout. |
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| Reverse lettering | BANCO DE LONDRES Y MEXICO AMERICAN BANK NOTE COMPANY, NEW YORK (Translation: Bank of London and Mexico) |
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El Banco de Londres y México was the oldest commercial bank in Mexico, founded in 1864 as a branch of the London Bank of Mexico and South America. It was one of only a handful of institutions authorized to issue currency under the 1884 Commercial Code and the subsequent 1897 Ley General de Instituciones de Crédito, which strictly limited note-issuing rights — making its paper among the most legitimate in circulation during the Porfiriato.
The American Bank Note Company held the contract across the full run of this series, a span long enough that plate wear and incremental design tweaks produced subtle but documentable differences between early and late printings.