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5 Pesos El Banco del Estado de Chihuahua
| Issuer | Banco del Estado de Chihuahua |
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| Year | 1913 |
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| Size | 179 × 82 mm |
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| Obverse description | Black intaglio print over a multicolor guilloche underprint, with red serial numbers positioned at the upper left and lower right corners. The central vignette presents a miner at work drilling in a mine shaft, a motif reflecting Chihuahua's mining heritage. Denomination counters and an ornate lathe-work border frame the composition throughout. |
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| Reverse lettering | BANCO DEL ESTADO DE CHIHUAHUA (Translation: State Bank of Chihuahua) |
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Banco del Estado de Chihuahua was a state bank operating during one of the most violent stretches of the Mexican Revolution — Chihuahua was Pancho Villa's home territory, and the region's banking infrastructure was under constant pressure from both Villista requisitions and Constitutionalist interference. Notes from this issuer in 1913 circulated in genuinely dangerous conditions, and the mortality rate of surviving examples reflects it.
The American Bank Note Company engraving is characteristically fine work, though ABNC was printing for multiple competing Mexican state banks simultaneously during this period, which occasionally led to shared plate elements across issuers.