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100 Pesos El Banco de Sonora
| Issuer | El Banco de Sonora |
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| Year | 1898-1911 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Black intaglio print on green guilloche underprint. At left, a portrait bust of Hortensia Corral Velez; at center, the ABNC vignette known as "Off the Harbor" rendered in fine line engraving. The overall layout is characteristic of late-nineteenth-century American Bank Note Company production, with ornate lathe-work borders framing the central and lateral elements. |
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| Reverse description | Black intaglio print on a pale green lathe-work underprint covering the entire field. The central design comprises an elaborate oval guilloche medallion bearing the bank name in bold serif lettering, surrounded by densely interlaced engine-turned scrollwork and foliate ornaments. Numeral counters "100" appear in ornate cartouches at both left and right, and the printer's imprint "American Bank Note Co. New York" is inscribed in a small panel below the central medallion. |
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El Banco de Sonora was one of the more solvent regional banks operating under Mexico's 1897 Ley General de Instituciones de Crédito, which created a two-tier system of privileged circulation banks. Sonora's institution benefited enormously from American commercial activity along the border — mining capital, cattle trade, and cross-border payrolls kept demand for high-denomination notes real rather than ceremonial.
The Revolutionary period ended it. By 1913–1914, Constitutionalist forces under Plutarco Elías Calles and others effectively suspended the old Porfirian banking structure across the northwest, and Banco de Sonora notes became worthless almost overnight. High-denomination survivors like this one were more often kept as records than spent.