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50 Pesos El Banco Oriental de Mexico
| Issuer | Banco Oriental de Mexico |
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| Year | 1900-1914 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Black intaglio print on white paper with red underprint and red serial numbers. A portrait vignette of Estevan de Antuñano is positioned at the left, set within elaborate guilloche scrollwork typical of American Bank Note Company engraving. Denomination and bank title inscriptions appear in bold letterpress across the note. |
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| Reverse description | Printed in green intaglio, the reverse is dominated by an elaborate central vignette of the Puebla Cathedral flanked by two angels, enclosed within a circular guilloche border bearing a Latin inscription. Two large numeral «50» counters appear symmetrically to the left and right of the central vignette, with four smaller «50» corner medallions set within dense lathe-work rosettes. The printer's imprint «American Bank Note Co. New-York» appears in small lettering at the bottom center. |
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The Banco Oriental de México was one of several regional concession banks operating under Mexico's 1897 Ley General de Instituciones de Crédito, which parceled out note-issuing rights by territory. Oriental's concession covered the state of Puebla. The arrangement collapsed entirely after 1913, when Huerta's government — then Carranza's — progressively stripped the old Porfiriato banking structure apart, leaving outstanding notes unredeemable.
ABNC produced plates for dozens of Latin American regional banks in this period, often recycling border and lathe work across clients. The fifteen-year production window for this series reflects the drawn-out death of the concession banking system rather than continuous active issue.