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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;hotwheelsearl, post: 3202746, member: 75143&quot;]MEC2, I love Mexican notes! Thanks for sharing, I hadn&#039;t seen that one before.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s a similar Revolution-era note.</p><p><br /></p><p>1915 Chihuahua 20 Pesos.</p><p><br /></p><p>Mexico appears to have operated similar to the old United States, with both a National Bank as well as a whole slew of State Banks.</p><p><br /></p><p>This 20 pesos is from the State of Chihuahua. It is interesting to trace the history of Chihuahuan notes from 1913 to 1915 and beyond.</p><p>There is a very popular series of 5,10 and 20 peso notes from Chihuahua engraved by ABNCo.</p><p><br /></p><p>The older note marked &quot;The Bank of the State of Chihuahua,&quot; while the newer note does not even mention the Bank of Chihuahua at all.</p><p>Translating some of the Spanish finds that the older note claims that it is &quot;legal tender in accordance to a decree of December 1913.&quot;</p><p>Below the vignette it says &quot;valor oro nacional,&quot; which means something like &quot;valid in national gold.&quot;</p><p>In other words, the 1913 note appears to be a Gold Certificate, redeemable for Gold Pesos at the Bank of Chihuahua.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]829273[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Contrast this with the 1915, Revolutionary note. As mentioned before, this note does not mention it being issued by a bank at all. Instead, it claims legal tender due to a <i>military</i> decree of February 1914.</p><p>Nowhere on the note does it mention being redeemable for gold or silver pesos, which likely means that this note was not backed by precious metals.</p><p>Additionally, the 1915 note is not engraved by ABNCo - not surprising, as ABNCo either stopped doing business with revolutionary Mexico, or the various governments were not wealthy enough to afford quality ABNCo products.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]829272[/ATTACH]</p><p>The obverse of the Revolutionary note features vignettes of two men, who I would assume to be revolutionary leaders of some kind.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]829275[/ATTACH] </p><p>The reverse of the note features what is likely the governmental building, in a vignette flanked by two very high-quality, ABNCo-esque griffins.</p><p><br /></p><p>The stamp on the left is the seal of the General Treasury of Chihuahua - again, <i>not</i> the Bank of Chihuahua.</p><p>There is also an exact date stamped on the reverse, in this case being April 1, 1915.</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s astounding that within 2 months - from December 1913 to February 1914, Chihuahuan notes changed from beautiful, high quality ABNCo works of art to much lesser products.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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