5 Pesos El Banco Nacional de México

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.