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50 Pesos El Banco de Londres y Mexico
| Issuer | El Banco de Londres y Mexico |
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| Year | 1889-1913 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Intaglio-printed note in blue-black on light paper with a fine guilloche underprint. To the left, an oval portrait vignette of Benito Juárez in formal attire is set within an ornate foliate frame, with the denomination numeral '50' repeated vertically along both lateral margins. At centre, a large scalloped guilloche medallion carries the numeral '50', flanked to the right by a lively vignette of a charro on horseback roping a bull across an open plain. The bank title 'EL BANCO DE LONDRES Y MEXICO / SOCIEDAD ANONIMA' appears at upper centre, with the promise text and series letter in red overprint below. |
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| Reverse lettering | BANCO DE LONDRES Y MEXICO AMERICAN BANK NOTE COMPANY, NEW YORK |
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El Banco de Londres y México was the oldest foreign-chartered bank operating in Mexico, originally established in 1864 as a branch of the London Bank of Mexico and South America. By the time this series entered circulation, the bank had survived Maximilian's empire, Juárez's republic, and the early Díaz regime — a remarkable institutional continuity for nineteenth-century Latin America.
The long date range reflects the stability of the Porfiriato rather than successive redesigns; ABNC plates of this period were expensive to commission and reused extensively. The 1897 Ley General de Instituciones de Crédito formalized private bank note issuance in Mexico, and Londres y México held one of the concessions that allowed it to continue printing until the revolutionary banking upheaval forced nationalization after 1913.