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20 Pesos
| Issuer | El Banco de la República Mexicana |
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| Year | 1918 |
| Type | Pattern or trial banknote |
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| Reverse description | Printed in brown on white paper, the reverse is dominated by a large central vignette of the Aztec Sun Stone (Sunstone calendar), engraved in fine intaglio detail with the face of Tonatiuh at its centre and the concentric bands of calendrical glyphs surrounding it. Symmetrical denomination panels inscribed VEINTE / 20 / PESOS appear at left and right within ornate guilloche frames, with the numeral 20 repeated at all four corners. The legends BANCO DE LA and REPÚBLICA MEXICANA arc along the top and bottom borders respectively, with the printer's imprint AMERICAN BANK NOTE COMPANY at the base. |
| Reverse lettering | Banco de la República Mexicana Veinte Pesos American Bank Note Company (Translation: Bank of the / Mexican Republic / Twenty Pesos) |
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El Banco de la República Mexicana was a short-lived institution, chartered in 1917 as part of the Carranza government's attempt to establish a unified national banking framework after the monetary chaos of the Revolution. The bank never fully operationalized, and this 1918 note carries the "S" suffix in the Pick reference — indicating a specimen — meaning it almost certainly never entered circulation at all.
The ABNC printed specimens of this type for archival and approval purposes. Surviving examples typically bear punch cancellations or "SPECIMEN" overprints applied by the company before delivery.