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50 Pesos
| Issuer | Banco de Mexico |
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| Year | 1941-1945 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Blue intaglio print over a multicolor guilloche underprint with red serial numbers. A vignette portrait of Ignacio Allende appears at the left. The overall design is executed in a classical engraved style typical of American Bank Note Company production. |
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| Reverse description | Blue intaglio print with dark green seals. At center, a vignette of the Monumento a la Independencia (Angel of Independence), the Victory column designed by architect Antonio Rivas Mercado with sculpture by Enrique Alciati, rendered in fine line engraving. |
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Banco de México turned to the American Bank Note Company throughout the 1940s, a relationship that had been well established since the bank's early years following its 1925 founding. This particular series spans a period when Mexico's economy was expanding rapidly on the back of wartime commodity exports — the country supplied raw materials to the Allied industrial effort without itself entering combat, and peso stability during these years was genuinely unusual for Latin America.
ABNCo engraving on Mexican issues of this period is consistently fine-lined work, and the 50 Peso denomination would have circulated among commercial rather than retail transactions — a meaningful sum at the time.