10 Pesos

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.