Catalog
500 Pesos
| Issuer | Banco de México |
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| Year | 2017-2023 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Portrait of President Benito Juárez at left, accompanied by a central vignette illustrating his triumphal entry into Mexico City on 15 July 1867, an event symbolizing the restoration of the Republic and the triumph of the Reform Laws establishing the separation of Church and State. Fine guilloche underprint patterns frame the composition, with denomination numerals at right. Inscriptions identify the subject and commemorate the historical significance of the scene. |
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| Reverse description | Central vignette of a gray whale and her calf amid seagrass meadows, representing the coastal, marine, and island ecosystem of the El Vizcaíno Biosphere Reserve in Baja California Sur, a UNESCO World Natural Heritage site. The composition is rendered in blue and green tones evoking the marine environment, with denomination numerals and issuer inscriptions integrated into the design. |
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The 500-peso denomination has historically been one of the most counterfeited in the Mexican series, which drove Banco de México to bring production of several high-value notes fully in-house rather than contract abroad. Printing at the bank's own facility in Mexico City gives it direct control over security specification and ink sourcing — an unusual degree of vertical integration for a central bank of this size.
Cotton substrate and a security thread place this squarely in the transitional window before Mexico's broader shift toward polymer for circulating denominations, a program that accelerated after 2018 for lower values but stalled at the higher end.