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50 Pesos El Banco de Sonora
| Issuer | El Banco de Sonora |
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| Year | 1898-1911 |
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| Value | 50 Pesos (50 MXP) |
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| Obverse description | Dark green and black intaglio print on a light green guilloche underprint. At left, a rectangular vignette shows agricultural laborers at work in a field. At center, a large ornate guilloche medallion bears the denomination numeral "50" within interlocking lathe-work borders. At right, an oval portrait vignette presents a young girl with curly hair and a ribbon headband, set within an elaborate scalloped guilloche frame. Serial numbers appear in red at lower left and lower right, with signature lines for Interventor del Gobierno, Gerente, and Presidente along the lower margin. |
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| Obverse lettering | Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico EL BANCO DE SONORA SOCIEDAD ANÓNIMA PAGARÁ Á LA VISTA AL PORTADOR CINCUENTA PESOS EN MONEDA CORRIENTE DE PLATA DEL CUÑO MEXICANO. (Translation: The Bank of Sonora Anonymous Society Will pay on sight to the bearer Fifty Pesos in current silver coin of Mexican making.) |
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El Banco de Sonora was one of the thirty-odd Mexican state banks authorized under the 1897 General Banking Law, which briefly opened the country to regulated provincial credit institutions before the Revolution dismantled nearly all of them. Sonora's bank was among the better-capitalized examples, backed substantially by mining and ranching interests in the northwest.
The long date range — 1898 to 1911 — reflects the bank's full operational life before Constitutionalist forces effectively ended private state banking in Mexico. Notes from the final years of issue circulated under increasingly strained conditions as revolutionary activity disrupted commerce throughout Sonora.