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10 Pesos
| Issuer | Banco de México |
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| Year | 1946-1950 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Black intaglio print over a multicolor guilloche underprint, with red serial numbers. A portrait vignette of María Estela Ruiz Velázquez is positioned at right. The issuing authority's name and promise-to-pay legend appear across the face. |
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| Obverse lettering | El Banco De Mexico S.A. Pagara Diez Pesos A La Vista Al Portador (Translation: The Bank of Mexico S.A. will pay Ten Pesos on sight to the bearer) |
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Banco de México began contracting with the American Bank Note Company for its mid-century series well before the postwar peso came under sustained devaluation pressure — the 10 Peso notes issued between 1946 and 1950 fall into a relatively stable window, after the wartime disruptions to trade and before the 1954 devaluation forced a structural rethink of the currency's appearance and backing.
ABNC's work for Mexico during this period used deeply engraved intaglio printing, a specification Banco de México insisted on partly as an anti-counterfeiting measure and partly for prestige reasons. The contract relationship between Mexico City and the New York press stretched back to 1925.