50 Pesos

Banco Internacional was one of several private Mexican banks operating under the Ley General de Instituciones de Crédito of 1884 — the very legislation that formalized the concession system allowing provincial and commercial banks to issue their own circulating notes. The timing of this note is not incidental; it was the regulatory framework itself that made the issue possible.

The American Bank Note Company's Mexico work from this period is well-documented, and ABNC-printed Mexican private bank notes of the 1880s are now significantly harder to locate than their volume of issue might suggest — many were redeemed and pulped during the banking consolidation that followed the 1897 legislation tightening note-issuing privileges.