Country: Mexico

 

Issuer: El Banco Minero

 

SCWPM Catalog No.: P-S164Ac

 

CEMPM No.: BK-CHI-93

 

Date: 31 January 1914

 

Denomination: 10 Pesos

 

Condition: Good Very Fine, 3 slight vertical folds, light soiling on reverse.

 

Description: Black on orange and yellow underprinting, central vignette of the Banco Minero building in Chihuahua, helmeted female bust at bottom left. Reverse brown, with cattle and sheep on road. Green and red revenue and treasury stamps on reverse. This bank was the most powerful of all the Bancos in northern Mexico, and forced the state banks to close by buying up the other bank’s notes. Printed by American Banknote Co. (ABNC), Series H.5.