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5 Pesos El Banco Nacional de México
| Issuer | Banco Nacional de México |
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| Year | 1888-1913 |
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| Currency | Peso (1863-1992) |
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| Reverse description | Printed in red-brown intaglio on plain paper, with large numeral 5 vignettes at left and right flanking a central scene of Columbus sighting the New World, rendered in a detailed engraved style with figures in period costume aboard a vessel. Greek key guilloche borders frame the design on all sides, with the bank title panel at the lower center and the printer's imprint along the bottom margin. |
| Reverse lettering | BANCO NACIONAL DE MÉXICO AMERICAN BANK NOTE COMPANY, NEW YORK (Translation: National Bank of Mexico) |
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The Banco Nacional de México held a privileged position among the roughly two dozen banks authorized under the 1897 Ley General de Instituciones de Crédito — it alone retained the right to issue notes redeemable at any branch nationwide, a concession that made its paper far more acceptable in commerce than the regionally restricted issues of competitors. The American Bank Note Company supplied the printed sheets throughout the series run, as it did for most of Mexico's porfiriato-era banking paper.
The twenty-five-year date range reflects continuous reissue of the same basic plate design rather than distinct series revisions. Notes from the later years of the window, post-1910, circulated against an increasingly unstable political backdrop and many were presented for redemption during the revolutionary disruptions that eventually collapsed the Díaz-era banking structure entirely.