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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;scottishmoney, post: 693399, member: 12789&quot;]<img src="http://www.scottishmoney.net/banknotes/mexico/mexicocoahuila5dtl1.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>Coahuila is a Mexican state that is just to the south of the US state of Texas, in fact Texas was originally part of the Mexican state of Coahuila y Tejas until Texas split off and became an independent republic in 1835. The largest city and capital city is Saltillo, and the region is known for mining and more recently manufacturing of automobiles. El Banco de Coahuila engaged American Banknote Company of New York to print this lovely series of banknotes ca. 1910. This note features <i>Ceres</i> as an allegory of agriculture. Curiously this vignette was also used on several Ecuadorian 5 Sucres notes, and a Russian 100 Ruble note in 1918.</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b><img src="http://www.scottishmoney.net/banknotes/mexico/mexicocoahuila5.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b><img src="http://www.scottishmoney.net/banknotes/mexico/mexicocoahuila5dtl2.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b></b><b>Like all private bank issues from Mexico, the bank was made to stop issuing it&#039;s own currency when the Mexican Revolution engulfed all of Mexico, and the issues of paper money were made a privilege of Banco de Mexico exclusively beginning in 1920.</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>And you can see the rest of them here:</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b></b><b><a href="http://www.scottishmoney.net/banknotes/mexico/mexico.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.scottishmoney.net/banknotes/mexico/mexico.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.scottishmoney.net/banknotes/mexico/mexico.html</a></b>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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