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50 Pesos El Banco del Estado de Chihuahua
| Issuer | El Banco del Estado de Chihuahua |
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| Year | 1913 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Black intaglio printing on white paper with multicolour guilloche underprint in red and blue. A central vignette presents a fine engraving of a steam locomotive at a railway station platform, with figures and station buildings to the left and a mountain landscape in the background. Flanking the central vignette are two large ornate guilloche rosettes bearing the numeral '50', with the bank title 'EL BANCO DEL ESTADO DE CHIHUAHUA' across the top, serial numbers in red at upper left and right, and the denomination 'CINCUENTA PESOS / VALOR ORO NACIONAL' in a cartouche at the lower centre, with signature lines for Interventor del Gobierno, Cajero, and Gerente at the foot. |
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| Reverse description | Printed entirely in orange on white paper, the reverse centres on an oval vignette containing the Mexican national coat of arms — an eagle perched on a cactus devouring a serpent, encircled by a laurel and oak wreath — with the arc inscription 'BANCO DEL...' above. Large numeral '50' counters appear at left and right within elaborate lobe-shaped guilloche panels, with the denomination numeral '50' repeated in each corner. The inscription 'ESTADO DE CHIHUAHUA' appears in a rectangular cartouche at the lower centre, and the printer's imprint 'AMERICAN BANK NOTE COMPANY, NEW YORK' is printed below. |
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El Banco del Estado de Chihuahua was a state institution operating under the Porfirian banking framework, but by 1913 that framework was collapsing entirely. The Revolution had already brought Chihuahua into Villista hands, and banking operations across the north were being improvised, suspended, or outright seized. Notes issued in this period circulated under conditions that made redemption a theoretical rather than practical promise.
ABNC's involvement is consistent with the broader Mexican state banking practice of commissioning prestige printing from New York regardless of local political stability — the plates often outlasted the governments that ordered them.