5 Pesos El Banco Minero

El Banco Minero was a Chihuahua-based institution chartered under Mexico's 1897 General Law of Credit Institutions, which granted select regional banks the right to issue circulating notes — a privilege that made these private bank issues effectively the working currency of the northern frontier states. The bank operated closely with the mining and commercial interests that dominated Chihuahua, and its notes circulated well beyond state lines into the broader northern economy.

The American Bank Note Company contract for this series was typical of Mexican private bank commissions of the period; ABNC handled the majority of such work by default, given the absence of a domestic securities printer capable of matching their intaglio standards. Production ran for over two decades until the revolutionary upheaval after 1910 effectively ended private bank note circulation across Mexico.