5 Pesos El Banco del Estado de Chihuahua

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.